I help women over 50 exercise to prevent unnecessary bone loss, prevent falls that fracture, and stay fearlessly active with their friends and families for years to come.
Green tea 🌿and your bones — what does the research say?
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Reader, Can drinking green tea 🍵really help improve your bone health? I’ll be the first to tell you — I’m a coffee gal, not really much of a tea drinker. But recently, while visiting my son in Boston, I ordered a pot of organic jasmine green tea. It was a freezing-cold afternoon, and tea seemed like the right choice to go with our ramen noodles. It was amazingly good. So good in fact, that my son's girlfriend surprised me with a bag of it to take back to Vermont. At the time, I had no idea I was drinking something that could be supportive for my bones and muscles. I actually stumbled across this article while doing my regular osteoporosis research: Mechanisms of green tea-induced attenuation of osteoporosis and skeletal muscle atrophy. The study was just published this month. I then looked into what else had been studied about green tea. I found that over the past few years, several studies have looked at green tea and its potential role in: • supporting bone density The research is interesting because green tea is: ✔ easy to add to your day So if you already drink it, consider this a little encouragement to keep going. And if you don’t? In the meantime, I look forward to adding more tea to my week as another easy way to improve my long-term strength. Let me know if you already drink tea, and what your favorite tea is. Andrea Trombley, PT, DPT PS — Interested in all of the evidence-based nutrition you need with bone loss? Join my next Strong Women, Strong Bones Jumpstart at the end of March. Learn all you need to know about exercise, nutrition, balance training, and, of course, get support from a community of women working on the same goals. REFERENCES Kwon Y. Mechanisms of green tea-induced attenuation of osteoporosis and skeletal muscle atrophy: current status and future study recommendations for clinical application. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2026 Feb 16:1-19. doi: 10.1080/10408398.2026.2625340. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41696766. Kwon Y. YAP/TAZ as Molecular Targets in Skeletal Muscle Atrophy and Osteoporosis. Aging Dis. 2024 Mar 14;16(1):299–320. doi: 10.14336/AD.2024.0306. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38502585; PMCID: PMC11745433. Lee DB, Song HJ, Paek YJ, Park KH, Seo YG, Noh HM. Relationship between Regular Green Tea Intake and Osteoporosis in Korean Postmenopausal Women: A Nationwide Study. Nutrients. 2021 Dec 26;14(1):87. doi: 10.3390/nu14010087. PMID: 35010962; PMCID: PMC8746552. Xing C, Tan Y, Ni W. Tea intake and total body bone mineral density of all ages: a Mendelian randomization analysis. Front Nutr. 2024 Feb 21;11:1289730. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1289730. PMID: 38450242; PMCID: PMC10915007. |
Hi! I'm a Andrea Trombley PT, DPT
I help women over 50 exercise to prevent unnecessary bone loss, prevent falls that fracture, and stay fearlessly active with their friends and families for years to come.
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