Posted on 06/06/2023 7:51:25 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Drinking beetroot juice every day for six months after having a stent fitted reduced the chance of angina patients having a heart attack or needing a repeat procedure, according to new research.
The researchers found that 16 percent of angina patients had a serious heart or circulatory incident, like a heart attack or need for another procedure, in the two years after having a stent fitted. However, when patients had beetroot juice daily, this dropped to 7.5 percent.
Thousands of coronary heart disease patients each year in the UK have a stent implanted, in a procedure known as a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Around 10 percent of patients experience restenosis, where the stented blood vessel narrows again and heart disease symptoms return, within five years of a PCI.
When the blood vessel width of patients was measured six months after stenting, the vessels of those who had beetroot juice showed around half as much narrowing in that time as those who had the placebo treatment.
By stopping restenosis, beetroot juice could stop patients from having to have another PCI procedure that may also fail or a much more invasive coronary bypass surgery.
The researchers were able to show that beetroot juice helps patients thanks to its natural high level of inorganic nitrate.
Inorganic nitrate is a nutrient that gets converted to nitrite by naturally found bacteria in the mouth, which is then turned into the signaling molecule nitric oxide (NO) by enzymes in the body. It is thought that NO is the cause of the positive effects on patients' blood vessels.
Beetroot juice was shown to be a safe and reliable way to get inorganic nitrate into the body, with no significant side effects experienced by any of the 300 patients on the trial other than pink urine.
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Beet root juice
Say it three times...
Well of course it has to be something nasty tasting.
Too bad we can’t get healthy on 3 donuts and large glass of milk a day.
Didn’t see how much to drink a day …. A gallon ? An ounce ?
I have beet root powder but ….
That’s one of the few ways I would consume Beet Juice.
It’s not a flavor I long for, and I’m guessing any cardiac benefit is destroyed if you add even a smidgen of sugar r Splenda to it. That’s usually how this works.
Just be careful how you pronounce “acute angina” around women.
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Lori Lightfoot!
Technically isnt a ‘beet’ a ‘root’? The beet grows underground so its root is the beet and vice versa.
Thank the Lord above I have never been hungry enough to have had to eat one. Now they got gummies!
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