Beetroot dip, irresistibly red juice has earned the reputation of a great feeling of pressure improve stamina and stimulate blood.
Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have found that a daily dose of beet juice significantly improves exercise endurance and blood pressure in elderly patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction ( HFPEF).
Exercise intolerance, shortness of breath and fatigue with normal amounts of effort, is the main symptom of HFPEF and is partly due to non-cardiac factors that reduce the oxygen supply to muscles skeletal assets.
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The team found that the daily dose of beet juice improves aerobic endurance by 24 percent after one week, compared to the single dose that produced no improvement. aerobic endurance was measured cycle time of exhaustion to a stationary work load less than the maximum
Another finding is that the consumption of juice significantly reduces resting systolic blood pressure in the once-daily group and 5 to 10 mmHg.
Although larger trials should be conducted, these early results suggest that a week of juice per day of beets could be a potential therapeutic option to improve aerobic endurance in patients HFPEF, which has implications for improvement activities and quality of life of all days, said lead author Dalane Kitzman
