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Toronto Pain Relief with Green Tea

We need to bring back teatime, a quiet time in the middle of the day to have a quiet cup of tea and escape from the bustle of life! (Your Toronto chiropractor would enjoy such a break again!) Teatime was beneficial for the mind and spirit and most likely very good for the body. Today, we just don’t have time, but just drinking tea on the run in an insulated mug on the commute to your chiropractic appointment at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre can be advantageous, especially 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 affecting many people – researchers found that tea has potential anti-COX (cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They suggested 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 delicious way to be healthier and even a bit painfree!

BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN

The more we acquire about what nature has for us through medicinal plants, the more we must appreciate nature! Green tea is a common beverage sourced from such medicinal plants. Green tea via lots 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), is described in the published literature as valuable for its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. Research papers have published how green tea is good diseases like neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and obesity. Green tea and its EGCG seem to curb 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 adding 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 illustrates the interaction of the immune system and pain and the capability of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to reduce back pain.

Schedule your Toronto chiropractic appointment today. If you can’t sit for teatime at home, turn your drive to Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre into teatime with a mug of green tea! Visit soon!

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