Up your Nitric Oxide and beat fat with beet juice

April 18, 2017 Ashley 0 Comments

Did you know you could lose weight with nitric oxide?

No, no – I don’t mean the giggle gas from your tooth doctor.

Or the stuff that makes Vinn Diesel’s car go fast.


“Get in, loser. We’re going lifting.”

I don’t mean nitrous oxide.

However, to be fair when it’s coursing through you, nitric (not nitrous) oxide can make your body automobile go from 0 to 60 in nothingty-nothing seconds and have the endurance to go for longer. Your blood vessels dilate more, which means you get an influx of blood to your muscles, so they can keep grinding out awesomery. And how do you get more of this stuff? By foraging for foods that have nitrates – which, in turn, turn your body into a nitric oxide factory. The result: you can go harder, better, faster, and stronger than a Daft Punk song. (Or a Kanye West ripoff of it.) And we all know that that extra ten minutes on the Schwinn or those extra intense stints in the HIIT sesh can make or break breaking your imprisoned fat out’ve their adipose jail cells and setting it free. That’s why it’s crucial to accrue foods that’re nitrate packed, as a pre-workout snack.

Alright, so where can we get this stuff?

Lucky for us, we can snatch it up from a source that doesn’t make us spend all our newfound superpowers working off the calories we just ingested. Beet juice. Yeah, yeah I know. It may not sound uber appetizing. But, think about it this way: remember all those equally awful (or worse) tasting shots you held your breath for in your early 20’s? From Tequila to mystery spirits? All in the name of feeling a good feeling? Yeah… This’s kinda like that. A pre-gym pre-game. All in the name of feeling a good feeling. All in the name of feeling as powerful as every god in the Greek Pantheon combined, while the peons around you tap out’ve their workout far earlier. Plus, with only 59 calories per cup, this stuff will up your NO levels without doing the same to your blood sugar or daily calorie tally.

So, how’s that translate in reality?

Beautifully.

Because beets had the following effect on cyclists with an otherwise low nitrate diet in a recent study:

“The study looked at eight male cyclists consuming half a liter (500ml) of beet juice (approx. 2 cups), containing nearly 700 mg of naturally occurring nitrate, for six days. The control group with the placebo drank 500 ml of black currant cordial containing very minimal nitrates for the same amount of time. (…) The beet juice group was able to cycle an average of 16 percent longer. The men also had lower resting blood pressure after consuming the beet juice compared to the currant juice. The author, Professor Andy Jones, noted: “Our study is the first to show that nitrate-rich food can increase exercise endurance. We were amazed by the effect of beet juice on oxygen uptake because these effects cannot be achieved by any other known means, including training.”

16% longer?!

Yeah, it might not be your dental wizard’s laughing gas…

But those stats are definitely something to smile about.


(Or roar… we’re not picky.)

#beet juice#diet foods#weight loss foods

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