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And then there's this whole thing about beet powder and beet juices and things that increase nitric oxide and allow for more vasodilation and therefore delivery of blood to muscle and neurons and other tissues for long bouts of endurance work.
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when you take when you when you eat nitrate so which beetro is normally rich in uh and the body let's say uh uh converts this to nutric oxide this helps D for for vation so so V delation you can think of this almost like a Plumping so in our in our body we already said that from our previous conversation that basically cell respiration is not the limitation to your V to Max so there are other things that are limiting factor uh that means also that for example your cardiovascular uh system meaning also actually your ability to transport blood around in your body is going to be important so the reason for why for example one of the reason for why uh when when you then use um some uh supplements like uh uh that that are highly enriched in nitrat so you get a nitric oxide boost is the this with actually it's almost like Plumbing you're opening up the plumbing and it allows you to blow to say to circulate faster throughout your body
there are some substrates as well that actually do influence or micronutrients also that actually also can help boost your V to Max as well such as long story short uh beetroots obviously have been like something that people have found quite interesting over a long time
how much should have an effect oh uh then I have to go back and look a little bit on on on the stud for real effect like 5% something measurable let's say something like that
uh beetroots obviously have been like something that people have found quite interesting over a long time beetroots beetroot yeah uh so they use beetroot concentrates and and the main let's say thinking let's say behind this is that when you take when you eat nitrate so which beetro is normally rich in uh and the body let's say uh uh converts this to nitric oxide this helps D for for vation so so vation you can think of this almost like a plumbing so in our in our body we already said that from our previous conversation that basically Cellar respiration is not the limitation to your V to Max so there are other things that are limiting factor uh that means also that for example your cardiovascular uh system meaning also actually your ability to transport blood around in your body is going to be important so the reason for why for example one of the reason for why uh when when you then use um some uh supplements like uh uh that that are highly enriched in nitrat so you get a nitric oxide boost is the this with actually it's almost like Plumbing you're opening up the plumbing and it allows your blood to blow to say to circulate faster throughout your body
beetroot concentrate he said it's rich in nitrates um body converts it into nitric oxide and that of course helps with vasod dilation opens up capillary beds um again he said at the elite level this doesn't have much of a difference but in amateur athletes like the rest of us uh can be about a 5% boost