It is not without reason that we are told to load up on veggies. They are packed with essential nutrients that work like magic for our health and well-being. A new research has found that drinking concentrated beetroot juice increases muscle power in patients with heart failure.
Patients in the study served as their own controls, with each receiving the beet juice treatment and an identical beet juice placebo that had only the nitrate content removed. There was a one- to two-week period between trial sessions to be sure any effects of the first treatment did not carry over to the second.Two hours after drinking the beet juice with high nitrate content, patients demonstrated a 13 percent increase in power in muscles that extended to the knee. The researchers observed the most substantial benefit when the muscles moved at the highest velocities. The increase in muscle performance was significant in quick, power-based actions, but researchers saw no improvements in performance during longer tests that measured muscle fatigue.The researchers also pointed out that participants experienced no major side effects from the beet juice, including no increase in heart rates or drops in blood pressure, which is important in patients with heart failure.The study appeared in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure.
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Patients in the study served as their own controls, with each receiving the beet juice treatment and an identical beet juice placebo that had only the nitrate content removed. There was a one- to two-week period between trial sessions to be sure any effects of the first treatment did not carry over to the second.Two hours after drinking the beet juice with high nitrate content, patients demonstrated a 13 percent increase in power in muscles that extended to the knee. The researchers observed the most substantial benefit when the muscles moved at the highest velocities. The increase in muscle performance was significant in quick, power-based actions, but researchers saw no improvements in performance during longer tests that measured muscle fatigue.The researchers also pointed out that participants experienced no major side effects from the beet juice, including no increase in heart rates or drops in blood pressure, which is important in patients with heart failure.The study appeared in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure.