Go with Pickle Juice as well. Btw- why do people grind flax seeds? Answer- Easier to absorb nutrients. Eating beets will work as well but juicing beets unlike oranges, apples etc. beet juice has less calories than the others and get the benefits quickly
9 calories per ounce-Beet 72 per cup
15 calories per ounce- Orange 135 per cup
17 calories per ounce- Cranberry
Least clueless poster wrote:
Do you have a link to this statement? It's the craziest thing they've done yet if true.
[quote]rjm33 wrote:
Scientists also are developing a urine doping test for beet juice and it may be added to the banned list at WADA along with baking soda as early as 2017.
[quote]Typical letsrunner wrote:
Here is the scientific information on the urine doping test for beet juice from another poster named Vomit factory:
A while back I was juicing (vegetsbles) just for vitamins etc. I add beats because I like them in salads, sweet. One day, had extra beats I decided to "use up". It was a huge mistake, total vomit fest. Too much beat juice and I was projectile vomiting - spraying red liquid everywhere. I felt like hell for most of the day. Was terror. Apparently this is well known (learned after, feel free to google). When it comes to beat juice, be very very careful and use small amounts. Or prepare to spend s day projectile vomiting. It also my my pee red all day. Very weird psychologically to be peeing red.
Vomit factory has a lot of knowledge about the scientific evidence on beat (sic) juice and its status along with baking soda for a possible future ban by WADA in 2017.
Be very careful. One time I tried mixing 8oz of beet juice with 2 Tbsp of baking soda at the same time...to get synergism between the two PEDs... so that I would then get a new 10K PR that day.
I was so psyched about my idea, so there may have been some placebo effect as well.
However...it turns out that I did not set a 10K PR that day.
I hope you have more luck with your science experiments than fred or I have had in our past experiments.
oldlegs wrote:
also, bear in mind that the science is showing that the more highly trained the athlete the less the positive impact of the beet juice. So if youa re a plodder, take them.
I've seen this idea around the boards--that beet juice only works on the untrained--but does anyone have a link to the research that backs up this claim?
You'd have to eat four beets the size of peaches to get 200-400 mg. Eating dark green spinach does the same thing but you'd need eat close to 1 lb of spinach for the same amount. It works for some people, it's also great for sleeping so drink up boys and girls and "eat your spinach".
work it out, yeah! wrote:
oldlegs wrote:also, bear in mind that the science is showing that the more highly trained the athlete the less the positive impact of the beet juice. So if youa re a plodder, take them.
I've seen this idea around the boards--that beet juice only works on the untrained--but does anyone have a link to the research that backs up this claim?
Google it. I am not going to search the papers for you (no time), but so far there have quite a few studies showing performance benefit in less elite athletes, however in elite athlete there have been less positive results. But I am not sure if in each of those cases the standard protocol was used.
Nutritinist- You are 50% Banana! Read below. ( :
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/humans-share-50-dna-bananas-2482139
bulldog35 wrote:
Nutritinist- You are 50% Banana! Read below. ( :
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/humans-share-50-dna-bananas-2482139
I had my personal DNA sequenced and I found out that I share 67% of my DNA with bananas.
The remaining 33% was found to be "junk" DNA of extraterrestrial origin.
rjm33 wrote:
Scientists also are developing a urine doping test for beet juice and it may be added to the banned list at WADA along with baking soda as early as 2017.
But coffee should never be banned as long as Ben "I'm-Holier-than-My-Wife" True drinks it.
Since you must be a really smart cookie...You must know that if baking soda is banned by WADA in 2017... then all chocolate chip cookies will also be banned in 2017...since they also contain baking soda.
Anti-Blue-Collar wrote:
rjm33 wrote:Scientists also are developing a urine doping test for beet juice and it may be added to the banned list at WADA along with baking soda as early as 2017.
But coffee should never be banned as long as Ben "I'm-Holier-than-My-Wife" True drinks it.
Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:
nutritinist wrote:Beets are much different than bananas in pulp to fluid ratio and nutrient to glycemic index ratio.
Should you even be eating bananas? I don't, the glycemic index and far outweighs the intake of any nutrient benefit.
Each player must be allowed to play at least one inning in the infield in each game
However, first question is: why do I even eat bananas? If you look enough, then you shouldn't.
Duh.
Yes, because runners/athletes need to be very scared of the "glycemic index"....?? C'mon, please don't tell me you believe that crap you wrote? But what's also funny is that you tell people to worry about the glycemic index, but then tell them to: hold the fiber, and drink straight juice (fiber would slow digestion, and slow blood glucose rising). Which one is it?
Also, like many fruits, the sugars in bananas are about 1/2 fructose, which doesn't raise blood glucose much. Also, their carbs are half complex. So your big worry there is overblown (bananas do have a a high GI impact).
Lastly, one banana can provide (for only a little over 100 calories)-
4 grams fiber
20% (of daily need) vit c
15% potassium
20% manganese
10% Magnesium
10% copper
10% biotin
25% b6
and 5% of more of 5 or 6 other essential vitamins/minerals
"Bananas also have small amounts are sterols like sitosterol, campesterol, and stigmasterol. As these sterols look structurally similar to cholesterol, they can block the absorption of dietary cholesterol."
So......great job! Avoid bananas at all costs!!
We must get the bananas out of America. They'll only provide a regular source of food for the monkeys when they come for us. Country of the Apes!
schrutefarms wrote:
From years of beet farming I have extensive knowledge that the pulpy hard texture of the beet itself is why it is preferred to consume only the juice as the roughage slows the digestion and causes cramps. In order to get the juice out of your beet you have to pound it hard and fast, no juicing machines (as others have suggested) work quite as well as the human touch. Unfortunately getting the juice out of your beet is a messy affair, which is why I have invented my own beet juice remover: Beet Off.
This is POD
work it out, yeah! wrote:
I've seen this idea around the boards--that beet juice only works on the untrained--but does anyone have a link to the research that backs up this claim?
It's by no means clear (improvements of any kind are hard to produce in elite athletes), but that's the trend. A few examples:
http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/a-dose-of-reality-for-beet-juicehttp://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/beet-juice-for-milersel beeto wrote:
work it out, yeah! wrote:I've seen this idea around the boards--that beet juice only works on the untrained--but does anyone have a link to the research that backs up this claim?
It's by no means clear (improvements of any kind are hard to produce in elite athletes), but that's the trend. A few examples:
http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/a-dose-of-reality-for-beet-juicehttp://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/beet-juice-for-milers
I have a friend involved in researching the effects of nitrates (beet juice) on athletic performance. He says the effects are quite pronounced and measurable, and they have tested on some elites including a sub 27 guy (no names) and still had good results that show it is worth taking if you can stomach it.
He reccomended it to me anyway!
I eat 20-30 beats a day.
What in the dear heavens!
Glycemic index certainly can have a negative affect on a runner or simply a human.
Especially when depleted.
You know processed meats also has all amino acids, but is known as a top cause of cancers.
You get more nutrients directly when you juice. That's a statement, not recommendation.
Beets, bears, battlestar galactica
HonestThief wrote:
schrutefarms wrote:From years of beet farming I have extensive knowledge that the pulpy hard texture of the beet itself is why it is preferred to consume only the juice as the roughage slows the digestion and causes cramps. In order to get the juice out of your beet you have to pound it hard and fast, no juicing machines (as others have suggested) work quite as well as the human touch. Unfortunately getting the juice out of your beet is a messy affair, which is why I have invented my own beet juice remover: Beet Off.
This is POD
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!.....
Just beet it...but you may go blind! LOL
It's just a scam. Another part of the modern economy of useless and harmful things. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3824146/
Precise control of regional blood flow is required to match substrate demand and removal of metabolites, which is of particular importance when the metabolic activity is high such as in exercising skeletal muscle. Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that causes local vasodilation. It is typically formed in vascular endothelial cells upon a variety of stimuli, the most important during exercise likely being shear stress (Pohl et al., 1986; Shen et al., 1995). Hemoglobin has been shown to tightly bind NO to form nitrosylhemoglobin (Hb-cys-NO; SNO-Hb) in an O2 saturation dependent manner with higher affinity for deoxyhemoglobin, a reaction that also causes formation of Met-Hb (Gow and Stamler, 1998; Grubina et al., 2007). Binding has been interpreted as a sink for NO produced by endothelium to prevent exaggerated and wide-spread vasodilation. However, it has also been hypothesized that Hb not only binds but also releases and/or produces NO from SNO-Hb to cause local vasodilation (Robinson and Lancaster, 2005).
you synthesize your own NO, and too much is no benefit.
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