When women take nitrate supplements, their blood vessels become more flexible, but men don’t see the same change—so nitrate might help women’s blood vessels more than men’s.

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Sex differences in the nitrate‐nitrite‐NO• pathway: Role of oral nitrate‐reducing bacteria

Cross-Sectional Study

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2018 Oct

The study found that when women took nitrate supplements, their blood vessels became more flexible, but men’s didn’t change — which is exactly what the claim says.

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Sex differences in the nitrate‐nitrite‐NO• pathway: Role of oral nitrate‐reducing bacteria

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DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.07.010

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