[ConservativeMind]

Beet root juice can be helpful for some with breathing difficulties, reducing blood pressure and increasing walking distance.

[ConservativeMind]

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[ConservativeMind]

An interesting study on relative amounts of nitrate across many brands of beet juice products:

What's in Your Beet Juice? Nitrate and Nitrite Content of Beet Juice Products Marketed to Athletes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8512783/

Knudsen and Lakewood Organic were far better than other options, but most other options would suffice.

[lee martell]

I am interested in this possible health advantage, since I probably have COPD. I know I have asthma.
I like pickled beets once or twice a year, but can’t see filling a juice glass or even a coffee cup.
Maybe there are supplementary capsules that offer the same dosage, as there are for garlic or turmeric.

[thinden]

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[libh8er]

It’s the Nitric Oxide. Foods rich in nitric oxide or a NO supplement will reduce bp.

[Taxman]

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[whitney69]

They need to be careful here as bronchitis and Emphysema are two different illnesses and are normally treated differently with diffeent drugs.

Emphysema is a lung condition where the air sacs — or alveoli — become damaged. These air sacs supply oxygen to the blood, so when they are damaged, less oxygen can enter the blood. Chronic bronchitis is a lung condition that destroys tiny hairs, called cilia, in the airways of the lungs. The airways then become inflamed and narrower, making breathing difficult and hard to expell mucus.

Not all drugs used for one are good for the other. Anti-histamines are an example. They can cause drying of the air passages too much, making breathing difficult, as well as causing difficulty coughing up excess mucus. The mucus is a problem with bronchitis (asthma) but not as much with emphazema which is a damage of a different type that is elevated with excess mucus.

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[DeplorablePaul]

I take the super beets supplement advertised on TV for lowering my blood pressure. Seems to work. In the past I would guzzle 32 oz beet juice before a bp test. That worked too but was hard to swallow.

[liberalh8ter]

I was talking with my son yesterday and he told me he's been drinking beet juice to lower his blood pressure. He's dropped from consistent 140’s to consistent 120’s. He did offer the caveat of red stained urine and feces as he wasn't aware of that at first and it did freak him out, LOL.