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Drinking a glass of beetroot juice every day for a month can lower your blood pressure in different settings—like at home, at the doctor’s office, and even when you’re wearing a monitor all day—without your body getting used to it and losing the effect.

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Dietary nitrate provides sustained blood pressure lowering in hypertensive patients: a randomized, phase 2, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Randomized Controlled Trial
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2015 Feb

This study gave people with high blood pressure a daily glass of beetroot juice for a month and found their blood pressure dropped significantly, just like the claim said — and their bodies didn’t get used to it over time.

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Dietary nitrate provides sustained blood pressure lowering in hypertensive patients: a randomized, phase 2, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

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DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.114.04675

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Drinking beetroot juice every day with at least 397 mg of nitrate can lower high blood pressure as much as common blood pressure pills do.

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If older adults with a specific type of heart condition drink beetroot juice every day for a week, their resting blood pressure may drop by about 14 points — which could be a meaningful improvement for their health.

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Drinking beetroot juice in a warm room doesn't make your blood pressure go down compared to drinking a placebo in the same warm room.

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Drinking beetroot juice with 800 mg of nitrate after working out might lower blood pressure by about 9 points in women over 50 who have high blood pressure, helping their heart recover better.

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Drinking beetroot juice (about 1 cup) lowers blood pressure, with the biggest drop being about 5 mm Hg, and it works similarly to nitrate supplements.

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