When you think of beetroot juice, you just kind of think of something sweet and you think
of this...
Like, going and getting a juice from Whole Foods, but you don't really think of the actual
serious athletic boost that you get from it.
Whether you are an athlete or whether you're someone who's just a recreational athlete,
someone that's just going out for a bike ride now and then, you can benefit from beetroot.
Okay.
Now, let's go ahead and let's break down exactly how this works 'cause there's some really
interesting mechanisms within the body that make beets so phenomenally powerful.
Hey, I'm Thomas DeLauer with Antler Farms and we're going to dive into nitrates, nitrites,
nitric oxide, and the respiratory electron change, but I promise I'm not going to lose
you.
All right.
So, interestingly enough, beetroot juice is powerful because of the nitrates in it.
So, you might hear that nitrates and nitrites are bad when they're in things like bacon
and sausage, but the reality is natural nitrites and nitrates are really powerful, like those
in beets.
So, what happens is, when you consume beets or beet juice, you're getting a lot of nitrates
coming in.
The second that those nitrates his your saliva, they reduce to something known as dietary
nitrite, okay?
Not to be confused with nitrate.
It's a more reduced form.
As that nitrite is swallowed, it's metabolized further into something known as nitric oxide.
Now, nitric oxide is a very powerful vasodilator, so we get an increase in blood flow, which
of course is good.
That's going to help us out in a multitude of ways, but when we actually look at the
benefits of beetroot juice, it's less about the vasodilation and more about the lowering
of what's called the oxygen cost.
You see, beets have been shown to lower what is called the oxygen cost of adenosine triphosphate
inside the actual working muscle.
So, what that simply means is it ends up making it so that we need less oxygen to create the
same amount of energy.
There's a lot of science to back this up.
So, literally by taking in beetroot juice, we can work just as hard for less energy or
we can work harder and use more energy.
It's all how we ever want to position it.
So, there was a study that was published in the Journal of Sports Medicine that took a
look at this pretty intensely.
They took a loot at the effect of beetroot juice powder for six days on exercise performance.
So, what they did is they had some participants consume a half a liter of beetroot juice and
some participants consume a placebo.
Well, at the end of the six days, they found some pretty phenomenal results.
They found that beetroot juice ended up reducing the overall exercise cost, the oxygen cost
by 19%.
19%.
It literally made their workouts 19% easier when they had beetroot juice, but it gets
even better.
They were able to push their time to exhaustion 17%.
So, those that consumed the beetroot juice were able to put their workouts 17% longer.
That's right in line with the 19% easier.
The workout got 19% easier, so it would make sense that you could push it 17% longer.
It just adds up.
So, the reason this is happening is not just because of the vasodilation and the increase
of blood flow.
It's happening because the beetroot juice powder and the nitrates and the nitric oxide
that is a part of it end up acting as what is called a cytochrome c oxidase inhibitor.
You see, that is the last component of what's called the respiratory electron chain.
When we're breathing, we have a series of things that happen in the body.
It's called an electron chain, and the respiratory electron chain ends with the cytochrome c
oxidase.
Normally, what that does is it makes it so that as oxygen travels down this pathway,
it hits this dead end, okay.
So, even if there's spare oxygen, it hits the dead end of this electron chain and we
can't use that oxygen, but if we inhibit cytochrome c oxidase, we take the end off of that electron
chain, allow oxygen to flow all the way through, which means excess oxygen that we were going
to use but not able to can now be used.
So, it basically unlocks the ability to use more oxygen.
It's really powerful stuff.
So, what's really cool is Antler Farms has actually created a beetroot juice powder that
doesn't have the carbohydrates.
So, now we've got a powder that still gets the same effect in an organic form that isn't
going to have a bunch of by-products, and you're still going to have the antioxidant
effects because it's so pure.
So, when it comes down to actually being able to maximize the results with beetroot juice,
there's no need to juice a bunch of beets and spends hundreds of dollars on a juicer
and a bunch of beets when you can actually just get the raw unadulterated powder that
makes it nice and pure and nice and clean.
So, make sure you're keeping it locked in here with Antler Farms, so you can learn more
about how to maximize your life through revolutionary products.