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Vancouver Pain Relief with Green Tea

We need to bring back teatime, a quiet time in the middle of the afternoon to drink a quiet cup of tea away from the bustle of life! (Your Vancouver chiropractor would appreciate such a time again!) Teatime was beneficial for the mind and spirit and very likely quite good for the body. Today, most of us just do not have time, but just drinking tea on the run in a reusable bottle on the commute to your chiropractic appointment at Vancouver Disc Centers can be advantageous, particularly if it’s green tea.

BENEFITS OF TEA OVERALL

In China, drinking tea is part of daily life. That’s a pretty good idea! In evaluating the health benefits of tea and its active ingredients for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis – familiar bone and joint diseases afflicting many people – researchers found that tea offers potential anti-COX (cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They determined that tea has a vast potential to be helpful in medicine and healthcare especially as the mechanisms of various tea properties are defined as to their synergistic mechanisms. (1) Tea from plants around us presents us a flavorsome way to be healthier and even less painful!

BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN

The more we learn about what nature offers us via medicinal plants, the more we will want to thank nature! Green tea is a common beverage obtained from such medicinal plants. Green tea via several pharmacological activities and antinociceptive effects can be effective for pain relief because of its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Green tea is explained to be 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), is described in the published literature as a valuable anti-inflammatory factor as well as anti-oxidant. Research papers have published how green tea is good diseases like obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases. Green tea and its EGCG seem to restrain the expression of inflammatory cytokines and inflammation-linked enzymes. The use of green tea potentially improves the quality of life for inflammatory disease patients with no severe adverse side-effects. (3) Back pain and its related spinal pain conditions like leg, arm, and neck pain, etc., typically have inflammatory components with them, so increasing consumption of green tea for its anti-inflammatory benefit may be a plus.

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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 capability of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to benefit the back pain patient.

Make your Vancouver chiropractic appointment soon. If you cannot find time for teatime at home, make your drive to Vancouver Disc Centers teatime with a mug of green tea! See you here soon!

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