Why I love Beetroot - Beetroot Benefits and Beetroot Juice Benefits

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Why I love Beetroot - Beetroot Benefits and Beetroot Juice Benefits

Beets are one of the world’s most popular root vegetables and one of the world’s healthiest foods. These gorgeous purple-red bulbs are packed with many vitamins, minerals, and compounds, making the beet a healthy addition to your diet no matter how you prepare it.

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Beets contain nitric oxide, the powerhouse Molecule. Inorganic nitrate (NO3) is found in all plants, with leafy green vegetables like spinach, celery, and beets having the highest amounts. Nitric oxide plays an essential role in your overall physical health – it lets your blood transport nutrients and oxygen across your body efficiently by controlling your blood flow, plays a role in immune function, and plays a role in energy levels because of its involvement in mitochondrial function. Nitrates are also a boon for heart health, having long been associated with lower resting blood pressure.

Increasing your ingestion of nitrates can slow the cardiovascular aging process – an important marker for your overall heart health. When you eat (or drink) beets, bacteria on your tongue, along with other enzymes in your body, convert nitrate ion (NO3) to nitric oxide (NO), which your body can also produce from arginine (an amino acid). Your body also produces another amino acid called citrulline, converted by your body into arginine. This process, aided by your diet, provides about half of the nitric oxide in your body.

Beets and beets juice isn’t just a fantastic source of nitrates; they also offer many other essential minerals, including folate, iron, zinc, and magnesium. Beets Can also Enhance Athletic Performance. If increasing your nitrate intake can increase nutrient-packed blood flow and oxygen to your muscles, then your body’s performance and response should improve across when exercising or competing.

Preliminary research on nitrate ingestion – often using beets juice – demonstrated clear performance benefits, which other studies supported. Presently, more research is still needed for a clearer picture, but for now, studies show encouraging results, particularly with young men of average fitness. However, studies so far for men who are already in peak fitness do not show any benefit.

The research consistently shows that by drinking beets juice for one week – or even just a few hours – before exercise, the body’s plasma nitrate concentration increases as the resting blood pressure decreases. Then, during exercise, oxygen consumption falls a little, and the overall performance of the exercise is judged to have improved markedly. Researchers believe these findings result from enhanced muscle performance, increased efficient mitochondrial ATP production, and more muscle blood flow.

Research has even demonstrated that nitrates might slow the terrible progress of dementia. In 2011, test subjects consumed a high nitrate diet with beets juice. As a result, MRI scans of their brains showed an apparent increase in blood flow to their frontal lobes, which deal with cognitive processes like thinking and behavior. Again, more research is needed, but preliminary results are encouraging.

Nitrates and Beets: Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing?
Consuming too many beets can cause something beeturia. An elegant way of saying that it turns your urine to a pinkish/reddish color. Which is completely harmless. And it can look pretty cool if you pee in the snow. People with low blood pressure may want to skip or carefully regulate their beet juice consumption; nitrates do, after all, lower blood pressure. Also, if you are prone to kidney stones, you have to be careful because it’s high in oxalate. Oxalate forms the crystals in the urine that can eventually turn into stones….which can make a grown man cry. Currently, there are no identified risks for adverse health consequences with an increased nitrate intake – one identified exception to this is those with heart disease on prescription medications like nitroglycerine that impact the body’s nitric oxide metabolism.

With little research into the side effects of consuming many nitrate supplements, sensible precaution is advised. As with all significant changes to diet or lifestyle, it’s recommended that you speak with your doctor first.

Doctor Mike Hansen, MD
Internal Medicine | Pulmonary Disease | Critical Care Medicine

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DoctorMikeHansen
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Oh my sweet mom...blended beet, carrot, banana and fresh squeezed oj., before we left to school. Other days, milk, carrots, banana. Good. Missing her. Now in heaven. My brother and I were blessed.

KH-xitd
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My Grandma always made beet salad with hard boiled eggs, little garlic and parsley, with some olive oil and lemon. I was a kid, and kids usually hate anything salad but i really liked that salad . I don’t remember any other salad, i think she only made this one .
I wish i could see my Grandma again.

tzukhi
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I was having stomach issues for a while, started to drink beet juice and my stomach has been fine. Finally feel better and also more relaxed throughout the day. Beet juice for the win!!

picos
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Beets are seriously so underrated! Definitely one of the world's most healthiest vegetables out there. Great video, doc! 😎👍

DoctorER
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I grow my own beets. I make pickled beets. When fresh, I grate or slice them into sticks. I add them last in a mixed bowl so that the color won’t die the rest of my ingredients. You can also blend the beets into a batter to make red crepes.

truvelocity
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I’ve been putting one beet in a Smoothie with blueberries, both chia and Flaxseed soaked in coconut water and depending on the season I will add cinnamon or nutmeg, fresh ginger and turmeric and sometimes an avocado to fill me up… The results are incredible with the 90 days…

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It helped me reduce my blood pressure. I take beetroot powder morning and evening time-mix it with water and drink it. I used to have nocturnal hypertension.
Two things I did- started walking a lot, changed my diet and my weight dropped by 6-7 kg in a month. But still the blood pressure used to go until 145-150 late at night which used to make me nervous.
I started taking beetroot powder and l arginine. Both of them helped me stabilize my blood pressure near 130 levels.
Anyone seriously frustrated with their high blood pressure should consider trying beetroot powder.

ashishtiwari
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One of my fave salads : roasted beets, pan-fried apples, walnuts, blue cheese, red onions and a simple vinaigrette

Onoma
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Well years ago i made a drink for someone using beetroot, water melon, pineapple, squeezed half lemon juice and ginger everyday for 3 months and i noticed the person lost weight, looked younger, had a cleaner and clearer skin, full dark hair and was somehow rejuvenated in and out.

Boombastic
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Doctor Mike you convinced me.... I will drink and eat beets even though I don't like them but I am getting old, you are the doctor and I take this video as a prescription.

mariawalsh
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Nothing pleases me more than a Medical Doctor who knows the value of food in maintaining good health. Thanks a lot. Looking foward to more. God bless you.

jenniferngure
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Would love to see more of these videos about how natural foods can enhance performance and improve overall health.

jehansalem
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Beets are awesome. I grew up not liking beets but when I got into the culinary world, my palette broadened.
I appreciate beets so much more now.
Thanks for the excellent facts!

spicychef
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I put beetroot powder in my plain yogurt. No sugar needed and it tastes great

dianelawrence
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I love beets for all the reasons listed - plus, they just taste great with pure butter and a touch of salt. Love the way you're mixing your music with pearls of natural medical wisdom.

barbarawarren
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Time to make a huge stockpot of borscht! 😁
Seriously though, I buy beet powder in very convenient single packs. I use a plastic bottle with 4-6 oz water and shake it vigorously to blend well. Bottoms up!

sadie
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I love grating raw beet and carrots on top of my mixed salads. so good!

alexandrac
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I have that beet powder already, so will try to drink it more often! I find it very refreshing when I'm feeling dehydrated.

ChaiLatte
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Fresh beets are next level nutrition… I’m living proof get it fresh when you can❣️❤️

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