Beet Juice Lowers Blood Pressure

Drinking two cups of beet juice a day can lower blood pressure, research suggests.
British researchers who conducted the research said the findings add weight to the importance of December by eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
Because bits (known as bits in the United Kingdom) was loaded with nitrate nutrients. Spinach, lettuce and other leafy green vegetables also have high nitrate levels.
Previous studies have shown that eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables lowers blood pressure. Antioxidants often get the credit, but several recent studies have suggested that it was the nitrate may play a much larger role. How nitrates work to lower blood pressure is more mystery.How to lower blood pressure can Nitrate
In the study, 14 healthy volunteers drank 500 ml (2 cups) sugar beet juice or organic Planet water within 30 minutes. The researchers examined the "blood pressure" to the participants every 15 minutes an hour before drinking the juice, every 15 minutes, three hours after drinking beet juice. It is also checked every hour for six hours and then at 24 hours after beet juice drink.
Compared to water drinkers, blood pressure dropped one hour after the volunteers drank the beet juice. We achieved the lowest point 2.5 to 3 hours after ingestion and continues to affect up to 24 hours.
Here's how it works: Nitrate in beetroot juice is converted by bacteria living on the tongue in the chemical nitrite. After entering the stomach, becomes nitric oxide or re-enters the bloodstream as nitrites. The researchers found that blood pressure is at its lowest when the nitrite levels in the blood were higher.
Nitrite, the researchers write, protection works against endothelial dysfunction, which means blood vessels have trouble expanding or contract to handle changes in blood flow. They also have anti-platelet properties.
"Our research suggests that drinking beetroot juice, or consuming other nitrate-rich vegetables, might be a simple way to" maintain a healthy cardiovascular system, and might also be an additional approach could be adopted in the modern fight against rising blood pressure "said Amrita Ahluwalia, PhD, a researcher of the study. Ahluwalia is a professor at the William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and The London School of Medicine.