A Simple Drink That Exerts Maximum Protection of Your Bone

Kyle J. Norton

“Let foods be your medicine and let medicines be your food”, using foods as medication has been a dream of many scholars and scientists over past many centuries.

In order to achieve these, consumption of whole food medicine must accompany with moderated exercise, change of diet and life style.

Evidence from laboratory studies opinionated, regular drinking of green tea improved bone health and reduced risk of osteoporosis and fractures.

Bone health is measured by bone mineral density which has an direct influence in risk of osteoporosis and fractures.

There are numbers of bone diseases, including include osteoporosis, rickets, osteomalacia, osteogenesis imperfecta, marble bone disease (osteopetrosis), Paget disease of bone, and fibrous dysplasia.

And osteoporosis is most frequently occurrence in aging population.

Osteoporosis is a condition of thinning of bone and bone tissues as a result of the loss of bone density over a long period of time. 

It is a widespread degenerative disease of skeletal joints and often associated with senescence in vertebrates due to excessive or abnormal mechanical loading of weight-bearing joints, arising from heavy long-term use or specific injuries.

If you experience symptoms of lower back pain, loss of height over time, a stooped posture, easy bone fracture, neck and back pain,… , you may have osteoporosis. 

Truly, bone diseases affect normal growth and development that can lead to weakness and/or deformity. 

The causes of bone diseases may be associated to genetic abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal disorders, infections, cancers….. and other conditions.

According to the general belief and the recommendation of health researchers, good diet and physical exercise may play an important role of skeletal mass at the end of adolescence and these bone mass are remained as the conservation of it during adult life(1).

Attending normal exercise and intake of bone enhancing food at young adult life may protect ourself against risk of bone diseases as we age.

However, the study did mention the effect of diet and exercise in influence of hone health in muscular diseases as in many cases, they are correlated.

In compared to physical inactivity and non weight bearing activities, weight bearing activities in adulthood., such as walking, running. have a greater effect in improved bond mass. However, Intense training may cause damage, promptly repaired, as in stress fractures observed in many instances.

Dr. Branca F, at the National Institute of Nutrition in Rome said, “Calcium intake should also be analysed in the light of other dietary factors affecting the balance between absorption and excretion, and in combination with a number of other minerals, trace elements and bioactive substances with an impact on bone metabolism”.

Green tea, a precious drink processes numbers of health benefit known to almost everyone in Asia and Western world.

However, as yin in nature herbal medicine ,or food, long term injection of large amounts may obstruct the balance of yin-yang, induced “yin excessive syndrome” or “yang vacuity syndrome” including weaken immunity and painful case of GERD,… according to traditional Chinese medicine’s Yin-Yang theory. But adding a slice of ginger will benign the problem.

According to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, green tea lovers have a reduced risk of lower bone mineral density due to its bioactive components with bone-protective properties.

The study also found that, regular green tea drinking promotes bone health in bone mineral loss menopausal women through increased bone mass, thus reducing risk of osteoporosis, a common disease in aging population.

Furthermore, intake of green tea also protected early onset of bone mineral loss in obese subjects. 

Other study conducted by the same group of researchers also stated, the bone density protective effect of green tea may involve the bioactive components’ effects in decreased risk of fracture by supporting osteoblastic activities while suppressing osteoclastic activities as well as attenuating oxidative stress in promoted healthy levels of bone mineral density.

In postmenopausal osteopenic women study, green tea with optimized dose of polyphenols showed an enhanced osteoprotective efficacy in improved bone mass, microarchitecture integrity, and bone strength observed through the advanced imaging technology.

Dr, Shen CL, the lead author in the studies said, ” Tea polyphenols enhance osteoblastogenesis and suppress osteoclastogenesis in vitro” and “Animal studies reveal that intake of tea polyphenols have pronounced positive effects on bone as shown by higher bonemass and trabecular bone volume, number, and thickness and lower trabecular separation via increasing boneformation and inhibition of bone resorption, resulting in greater bone strength”.

Promisingly, in a total study of 171 postmenopausal osteopenic women to compare the efficacy of green tea polyphenols (GTP) supplement and/or Tai Chi in risk of osteoporosis, randomly assigned to four groups: (1) placebo (500 mg starch/day), (2) GTP (500 mg GTP/day), (3) placebo + TC (placebo plus TC training at 60 min/session, three sessions/week), and (4) GTP + TC (GTP plus TC training).for 6 months, intake of green and tai chi exercise groups increased bone-specific alkaline phosphatase(bone protective glycoprotein found on the surface of osteoblasts) and improved BAP/(tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, osteoclast increased risk of bone turnover)/TRAP ratio.

Additionally, group received also green tea showed a significant improved muscle strength in postmenopausal women with osteopenia.

Taking together, green tea may be served as functional food to protect bone health, particularly, the bone mineral density in all people with/ without risk of osteoporosis.

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Kyle J. Norton, Master of Nutrients
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it’s news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Sources
(1) Physical activity, diet and skeletal health by Branca F(PubMed)
(2) Green tea and bone health: Evidence from laboratory studies by Shen CL1, Yeh JK, Cao JJ, Chyu MC, Wang JS.(PubMed)
(3) Green tea and bone metabolism by Shen CL1, Yeh JK, Cao JJ, Wang JS.(PubMed)
(4) Tea and bone health: steps forward in translational nutrition by Shen CL1, Chyu MC, Wang JS.(PubMed)
(5) Effect of green tea and Tai Chi on bone health in postmenopausal osteopenic women: a 6-month randomized placebo-controlled trial by Shen CL1, Chyu MC, Yeh JK, Zhang Y, Pence BC, Felton CK, Brismée JM, Arjmandi BH, Doctolero S, Wang JS.(PubMed)
(6) Bone disease in post-transplant patients by Jeon HJ1, Kim H, Yang J.(PubMed)