La Grande Pain Relief with Green Tea
We need to bring back teatime, that quiet time in the middle of the day to enjoy a quiet cup of tea and escape from the bustle of life! (Your La Grande chiropractor would appreciate such a break again!) Teatime was valuable for the mind and spirit and very likely quite good for the body. Today, we just cannot imagine that we could possibly have time, but just drinking tea on the run in an insulated mug on the way to your chiropractic appointment at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC can be beneficial, especially if it’s green tea.
BENEFITS OF TEA OVERALL
In China, drinking tea is a traditional lifestyle factor. That’s a pretty good idea! In assessing the health benefits of tea and its active ingredients for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis – familiar bone and joint diseases bothering many people – researchers found that tea has potential anti-COX (cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They concluded that tea has a great potential to be helpful in medicine and healthcare especially as the mechanisms of various tea properties are identified as to their synergistic mechanisms. (1) Tea from plants around us offers us a flavorsome way to be healthier and even a bit painfree!
BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN
The more we learn about what nature has for us via medicinal plants, the more we will want to thank nature! Green tea is a well-known beverage sourced from such medicinal plants. Green tea via a multitude of pharmacological activities and antinociceptive effects can be effective for pain relief because of its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Green tea is described as a safe and often effective treatment for pain management because if can suppress inflammation and oxidative stress. (2) Green tea’s major component, EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), has shown itself to be a valuable anti-inflammatory factor as well as anti-oxidant. Research papers have reported how green tea is good diseases like obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases. Green tea and its EGCG seem to curb the expression of inflammatory cytokines and inflammation-linked enzymes. The use of green tea quite possibly improves the quality of life for inflammatory disease patients without severe adverse side-effects. (3) Back pain and its related spinal pain conditions like neck pain, arm pain, leg pain, etc., typically have inflammatory components with them, so adding green tea for its anti-inflammatory benefit may be an advantage.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the interaction of the immune system and pain and the potential of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to reduce back pain.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic appointment now. If you cannot find time for teatime at home, turn your drive to Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC into teatime with a mug of green tea! See you here soon!
