Bulllshit fad or does it help ?
Bulllshit fad or does it help ?
it helps, but it's definitely a fad. literally any food with a significant amount of nitrates will have the same effect. like arugula, or meats. just beets sound like a superfood while hot dogs don't.
I haven't tried beet root but beet juice consistently seems to work for me, or if placebo, a pretty significant placebo effect.
It is one of Hasay's favorite drugs.
beet juice works for me.
Alan wilder wrote:
Bulllshit fad or does it help ?
I'm interested as well. Has anyone here tried it? What pros use it?
Um, Jordan Hasay. It is one of the first drugs she was on.
BS fad, only affects slow fat out of shape people. It stimulates mechanisms that are already well-developed in a fit runner. Expensive way to piss purple.
Nitrates play a role in regulating blood vessel diameter, useful both for oxygen delivery and lowering blood pressure. But only when they're bound to hemoglobin. It doesn't make sense that loading up on them would make any difference beyond how much HB you've got for them to bind to.
If they were a super-PED it would have been discovered accidentally long ago by some elite who ate a lot of beets. Surely there have been a few. Used to be a very popular dinner item back in the day when people ate at tables.
What is a table?
Bad Wigins wrote:
Used to be a very popular dinner item back in the day when people ate at tables.
Yes, but it's more of a small gain than some miracle food. As someone else said other foods high in nitrates can have similar results.
Interestingly they found that it works by a process of bacteria in the mouth and that people using mouthwash negated its benefits.