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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Acute and short-term beetroot juice nitrate-rich ingestion enhances cardiovascular responses following aerobic exercise in postmenopausal women with arterial hypertension: A triple-blinded randomized controlled trial.

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2024 Feb 1

This study gave postmenopausal women with high blood pressure a beetroot juice drink with 800 mg of nitrate after exercise, and their blood pressure dropped by about 9 points—exactly what the claim said. The study was well-designed and proves the claim is true.

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Acute and short-term beetroot juice nitrate-rich ingestion enhances cardiovascular responses following aerobic exercise in postmenopausal women with arterial hypertension: A triple-blinded randomized controlled trial.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.11.039

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