A Tasty Way to Enhance Fort Wayne Bone Health Cherries!
Aging bones. None of us can avoid signs of aging, and our bones tell our age. As we age, we lose bone density. Some of us develop osteoarthritis of bone. We all would love to escape 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 refreshing news to Aaron Chiropractic Clinic. They may be a tasty way for our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients to do what they can to keep their bones healthy!
BONE LOSS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS
Osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, often precedes disability. There is no cure nor effective treatment yet described in published research to stop it explains one set of researchers. NSAIDs and analgesics help with the pain but not with the course of osteoarthritis. Taking drugs sometimes results in some adverse side effects for some patients over time which lead a set of researchers to see what else may help. In their analysis of peer-reviewed articles, they concluded that nutrition can improve osteoarthritis symptoms. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic has seen this often in its Fort Wayne 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 beneficial in osteoarthritis care, including these two nutrients is, too. (1) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic has more information on them both.
CONSUMING TART CHERRIES
A likely tasty way to supplement the diet for spine care is eating tart cherries. In this springtime in the US that finds the cherry trees in bloom, now is the perfect 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 report that tart cherry protected bone structure from inflammation-induced bone loss and (unlike infliximab, a common drug) moderately improved the decline in bone stiffness. (2) That is beneficial! The researchers suggested that tart cherry may be useful to avoid future fragility fractures in the presence of highly chronic inflammation. (2) Further, another set of researchers note 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 offset this happening. In testing 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%) bettered bone mineral density down to the trabecular and cortical bone microarchitecture! (3) All from cherries! Aaron Chiropractic Clinic appreciates this simple way to improve bone and is sure our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients will, too!
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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 Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment today at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic. We can check the status of your bone as well as your risk of age-related bone loss and cherry-related improvement! Managing aging bones may be very tasty!
