Beetroot juice, increase physical endurance

The key to boosting the resistance may be as simple as regularly drinking a glass of beet juice as a daily dose seems to allow us to exercise longer without getting tired.

Some of the benefits exceed those obtained in strict training routines followed by professional athletes and researchers say the results are surprising, with benefits that also achieve a reduction in blood pressure, improving heart.

This discovery could have a major impact on each of the top athletes to increase endurance and in general for anyone who lacks energy.

Researchers at the University of Exeter and the Peninsula Medical School in the same city, evaluated eight healthy young men to complete a series of tests based on cycling.

They drank twice a day for six days, beet juice and black currant, its exercise was based on a simple rhythm, showing men in less use of oxygen, after drinking beet juice and reported to the Magazine Applied Physiology.

This indicates that their muscles were capable of doing the same amount of work, while energy expenditure was lower, which resulted in a 16 percent increase in the resistance, we can deduce that if a runner is usually without power after jogging for an hour, drinking beet judo would be able to go ahead ten minutes or alternatively, you could cover the same distance, but faster.

Researcher Andy Jones said: “We are surprised by the effects of beet juice in the absorption of oxygen, since these effects can not be achieved by any known means, including training.

The Benefits are probably due to high levels of nitrate in beetroot juice, chemical also found in green leafy vegetables such as lettuce and spinach, but is especially concentrated in the juices, which provide a number of changes in the body towards the enlargement of blood vessels and improved oxygen supply to muscles.