A Tasty Way to Enhance Oxford Bone Health Cherries!
Aging bones. We can’t avoid signs of aging, and our bones tell our age. As we age, we lose bone density. Some of us find that we have osteoarthritis of bone. We all would enjoy not having to deal with aging and bone loss and osteoarthritis, but truth be told: many of us won’t. New information that tart cherries may help prevent bone loss and osteoarthritis and improve bone health is welcome news to Satterwhite Chiropractic. They may be a tasty way for our Oxford chiropractic patients to do what they can to keep their bones healthy!
BONE LOSS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS
Osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, often leads to disability. There is no cure nor effective treatment yet discovered to stop it explains one set of researchers. NSAIDs and analgesics help with the pain but not with the course of osteoarthritis. Using drugs brings about some adverse side effects which guided a group of researchers to see what else may be beneficial. In their review of peer-reviewed articles, they concluded that nutrition can better osteoarthritis symptoms. Satterwhite Chiropractic has seen this often in its Oxford chiropractic practice! As these researchers discovered, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate “robustly” delay the progression of knee osteoarthritis. While diet changes to correct lipid and cholesterol numbers, enhance vitamin levels and address overweight levels are useful in osteoarthritis care, adding these two nutrients is, too. (1) Satterwhite Chiropractic has more information on them both.
CONSUMING TART CHERRIES
A likely tasty way to supplement the diet for spine care is consuming tart cherries. In this springtime in the US that finds the cherry trees in bloom, it’s the ideal time for this new information about the benefits of cherries. But how much of a good thing like tart cherries is healthy and beneficial? Recently, researchers wrote that tart cherry may be a natural alternative to drug therapy to prevent bone loss in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and others. They explain that tart cherry protected bone structure from inflammation-induced bone loss and (unlike infliximab, a common drug) moderately improved the decrease in bone stiffness. (2) That is beneficial! The researchers suggested that tart cherry may help avoid future fragility fractures in the presence of highly chronic inflammation. (2) Further, another set of researchers describe how the immune and endocrine systems play a role in age-related bone loss. Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and prebiotic foods like tart cherries can potentially neutralize this happening. In trying 5% and 10% Montmorency tart cherry intake, researchers found significantly greater bone thickness in patients using the cherry than the control group patients. They determined that cherry supplementation (5% and 10%) increased bone mineral density down to the trabecular and cortical bone microarchitecture! (3) All from cherries! Satterwhite Chiropractic sees this as a simple way to help and protect bone and is certain our Oxford chiropractic patients will, too!
CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Albano details his treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee with nutrition and Cox® Technic flexion-distraction inspired protocols for taking care of it on The Cox® Table and alleviating osteoarthritic pain.
Schedule a Oxford chiropractic appointment today at Satterwhite Chiropractic. We can assess the condition of your bone as well as your risk of age-related bone loss and cherry-related improvement! Managing aging bones may be very tasty!
