I wanted to show this study to those interested, it states that beet root juice helps with blood flow to the brain and nitric oxide.
Here are some more studies/information. The study I pasted below was based on drinking 500ml of beet root juice. It’s from number 3 in the list of studies/info below.
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Nitric Oxide, Oxidative Stress
Acute Blood Pressure Lowering, Vasoprotective, and Antiplatelet Properties of Dietary Nitrate via Bioconversion to Nitrite
Andrew J. Webb, Nakul Patel, Stavros Loukogeorgakis, Mike Okorie, Zainab Aboud, Shivani Misra, Rahim Rashid, Philip Miall, John Deanfield, Nigel Benjamin, Raymond MacAllister, Adrian J. Hobbs, Amrita Ahluwalia
- Author Affiliations
From Clinical Pharmacology (A.J.W., N.P., Z.A., S.M., R.R., A.A.), William Harvey Research Institute, Barts & the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University, London, UK; Clinical Pharmacology (S.L., M.O., R.M.), The Rayne Institute, University College London, UK; Clinical Biochemistry (P.M.), William Harvey Research Institute, Barts & the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK; the Institute of Child Health (J.D.), University College London, UK; Peninsula Medical School (N.B.), Tamar Science Park, Plymouth UK; and the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research (A.J.H.), University College London, UK.
Correspondence to Professor Amrita Ahluwalia, Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts & the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ, UK. E-mail a.ahluwalia@qmul.ac.uk
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Diets rich in fruits and vegetables reduce blood pressure (BP) and the risk of adverse cardiovascular events. However, the mechanisms of this effect have not been elucidated. Certain vegetables possess a high nitrate content, and we hypothesized that this might represent a source of vasoprotective nitric oxide via bioactivation. In healthy volunteers, approximately 3 hours after ingestion of a dietary nitrate load (beetroot juice 500 mL), BP was substantially reduced (Δmax −10.4/8 mm Hg); an effect that correlated with peak increases in plasma nitrite concentration. The dietary nitrate load also prevented endothelial dysfunction induced by an acute ischemic insult in the human forearm and significantly attenuated ex vivo platelet aggregation in response to collagen and ADP. Interruption of the enterosalivary conversion of nitrate to nitrite (facilitated by bacterial anaerobes situated on the surface of the tongue) prevented the rise in plasma nitrite, blocked the decrease in BP, and abolished the inhibitory effects on platelet aggregation, confirming that these vasoprotective effects were attributable to the activity of nitrite converted from the ingested nitrate. These findings suggest that dietary nitrate underlies the beneficial effects of a vegetable-rich diet and highlights the potential of a “natural” low cost approach for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Another interesting study in reference to beet juice and nitric oxide : hyper.ahajournals.org/content/56/2/274.full
The Problem is I don’t think our problem is related to nitric oxide. Nitric oxide plays a role in PDE-5 Inhibitors, such as Cialis & Viagra, but they don’t do much for the majority of us. They usually improve erections once or twice and then lose their effect.
If you have luck with the treatment, please let us know though.
I used beetroot juice everyday for about 1-2 weeks about 8 months ago. I was using it because it is a good liver tonic, increases bile flow.
I had no change in my condition, i was wizzing up raw beetroot and drinking the juice. Who knows i may not have done it for long enough.
Boston2009 cycle between the pde5i’s and you should have on going success.
whic kind/variety is the best?
I bought some beet juice today at whole foods. They have a juicing stand there where they make it fresh. I have to say that beet root juice is very unpleasant tasting. I had a difficult time drinking it.
I agree with that. Its foul!
Why not just buy the beets on the root and blend them up in your blender at home. If this is going to offer any help at all, you would likely need to do it for quite a while. I can only imagine what whole foods charges for a single drink.