Beet juice can help lower high blood pressure
Dietary nitrate provides sustained blood pressure lowering in hypertensive patients: a randomized, phase 2, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
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Surprising Findings
No tolerance developed over 4 weeks—blood pressure kept dropping without weakening effects.
Most blood pressure medications (like nitrates) lose effectiveness over time due to tolerance, but beetroot juice didn’t—defying decades of pharmacological assumptions.
Practical Takeaways
Drink 250 mL (about 1 cup) of beetroot juice daily—preferably unsweetened, store-bought or freshly made.
Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Surprising Findings
No tolerance developed over 4 weeks—blood pressure kept dropping without weakening effects.
Most blood pressure medications (like nitrates) lose effectiveness over time due to tolerance, but beetroot juice didn’t—defying decades of pharmacological assumptions.
Practical Takeaways
Drink 250 mL (about 1 cup) of beetroot juice daily—preferably unsweetened, store-bought or freshly made.
Publication
Journal
Hypertension
Year
2015
Authors
V. Kapil, R. Khambata, A. Robertson, M. Caulfield, A. Ahluwalia
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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.
Taking nitrate-rich supplements every day for a month can help people with high blood pressure have healthier blood vessels—making them more flexible and better at opening up to let blood flow smoothly.
Taking nitrate-rich supplements every day can boost certain chemicals in the blood of people with high blood pressure, which may explain why their blood pressure goes down.
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.
Drinking beetroot juice every day for a month is safe for people with high blood pressure—it doesn’t cause any dangerous side effects, and the only harmless things you might notice are pink urine or oddly colored poop.