Red beet root juice is popular for boosting energy levels. However, beet juice has a drawback…
While it offers a variety of unique health-boosting nutrients in uniquely high amounts, it’s loaded with sugar.
Beets have the highest sugar content of any vegetable. Unless you know about their special palette of nutrients, it’s easy to dismiss them as a food best left off your plate.
If you’ve been limiting sugar and non-fiber carbs in your diet, maybe you’ve been avoiding beets – but that may be a big mistake.
Especially because now, even if beets aren’t your favorite food, there’s a way you can get all their nutritional goodness, including antioxidants, phytonutrients and circulation-boosting nitrates.
And the best part is you can have them without the excess sugar.
Why Organic Beets Should Be Part of Your Daily Diet
Organic beets deserve a place in your everyday diet for six important reasons:
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They help promote a healthy normal inflammatory response.
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They help promote healthy blood flow throughout your body and brain.
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They support your body’s natural detoxification processes.
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They support immune and cellular health.
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They promote brain neuroplasticity, or the ability to form new neural pathways.
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They’re high in valuable nutrients: vitamin C, folate, potassium and manganese.
So what is it about beets that make them such a unique and valuable vegetable?
Three things: nitrates, bioactive pigments called betalains, and other beneficial phytochemical compounds.
Why All Nitrates and Nitrites Don’t Behave the Same Way in Your Body
Beets are an excellent source of nitrates, and these special substances account for many of their potential health benefits.
But you’ve probably also heard that processed meats like bacon, hot dogs and ham contain nitrates, too, and they’re potentially hazardous to your health.
What’s the difference?
All nitrates convert to nitrites in your body. Nitrites are found in the preservative sodium nitrite that’s added to processed meats, and they can also occur naturally in drinking water, fertilizer, sewage treatment facilities and septic systems.
The problem with nitrites in cured or processed meats is that when you heat or cook these foods, the nitrites can convert into nitrosamines, a dangerous substance. For that reason, it’s best to avoid any meat with sodium nitrite listed on the package label.
The naturally occurring nitrates in beets also convert to nitrites when you eat them, when they come in contact with the bacteria in your mouth, but the similarities end there.
Beets contain high levels of antioxidants and phytonutrients that provide a protective effect against the potential health-harming actions of nitrites. Thanks to these valuable nutrients, the nitrates in beets that convert to nitrites don’t pose a threat to your health.
Unlike the nitrites in processed meats, fertilizers and drinking water, the naturally occurring nitrates in beets offer health benefits.
Beets contain one of the highest levels of nitrates found in foods, and that’s a real plus. When you eat beets, your body converts these nitrates into nitric oxide (NO) through what’s known as the “nitrate-to-nitrite-to-nitric oxide pathway.”
And NO just happens to be vital for life…
Nitric Oxide: The Key to Healthy Blood Flow and Other Potential Benefits
If you were to look inside your blood vessels, you would see a thin lining of cells called the endothelium.
These endothelial cells line your entire circulatory system, from your heart to the smallest of your capillaries.
Inside these cells, NO is continually produced, either through the nitrate-to-nitrite-to-nitric oxide pathway, or from the amino acid, L-arginine.
This gas, NO, is an important signaling molecule in every cell of your body. It plays an important role in:
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Promoting healthy dilation of your veins and arteries to support healthy blood flow.
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Sustaining optimal blood flow to your muscles, brain, heart and other organs.*
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Protecting your cells’ powerhouses, or mitochondria.
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Preventing your red blood cells from sticking together.
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Enhancing oxygen and nutrient delivery to your brain and body.*
Nitric oxide helps your blood vessels relax and increases the diameter of your vessels for improved blood flow.
Healthy blood flow is essential for supplying your brain and organs with oxygen and nutrients. Your blood nourishes and oxygenizes your immune system and muscles, and helps keep your heart beating. Just as importantly, your blood carries away wastes such as carbon dioxide.
Healthy blood flow – and therefore nitric oxide – are essential for energy production and overall well-being.
Healthy Blood Flow and Your Brain
Your brain requires the most oxygen of all the organs in your body. Because of nitric oxide’s important role in oxygen delivery, your brain can potentially benefit when you have abundant NO in your body.
A recent study of 26 men and women aged 55 and older examined how beet juice affects brain health when combined with exercise.
This group of individuals did not regularly exercise before the study. During the study, the participants walked for 50 minutes on a treadmill one hour after drinking beet juice, three times a week.
At the end of the six-week study, the researchers discovered that:
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Combining beet juice with exercise increased blood flow and delivered more oxygen to brain tissues.
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The group consuming beet juice had much higher levels of nitrate and nitrite in their bodies than the placebo group after exercise.
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The group who exercised and drank beet juice had brain networks that more closely resembled those of younger adults, suggesting greater neuroplasticity, or the ability to form new neural pathways.
These findings confirm that your diet matters for your brain health, especially as you grow older.
How Beet Juice Can Help Improve Your Overall Well-Being
Researchers have found that nitrate-rich beet juice is linked to improved NO function and beneficial vascular effects. Consuming beet juice can potentially help support:
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Optimal blood flow to your muscles, brain, heart and other organs.*
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Enhanced oxygen and nutrient delivery to your brain and body.*
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Increased plasma nitrate levels which may boost nitric oxide.*
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The pliability of arterial walls.*
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Healthy blood pressure levels already in the normal range.*
What’s more, this conversion of nitrates in beets to NO happens quickly. There’s no waiting days or weeks for results.
But there’s still this problem with regular beet juice being fairly high in sugars, which we’ll address in a moment…
What You Can Do Right Now to Support Healthy Blood Flow For Optimal Health
There’s a lot you can do right now to support healthy blood flow and enjoy its benefits, including faster wound healing, healthy organs, and even a naturally flushed, youthful-looking complexion.
Your daily choices can either help or harm your cardiovascular function. Try following these seven tips to give your body the support it needs for healthy blood flow:
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Get active and walk more steps.
Exercise is one of your most powerful strategies for promoting healthy blood flow. One of the easiest exercise plans is walking for 20 minutes a day at a moderate to brisk pace – it doesn’t require any special equipment and you can do it any time it fits in your day.
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Breathe deeply and slowly.
The way you breathe can affect your blood pressure. Slow, deep breathing helps decrease stress hormones, and in turn, lower an enzyme that raises blood pressure. For a simple start, try inhaling slowly through your nose and exhaling deeply through your mouth for five minutes, twice a day.
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Get the processed foods out of your cart – and out of your home.
Many processed foods contain high levels of sugar and fructose, processed salt, unhealthy trans fats, and damaged omega-6 vegetable oils – all things that can negatively impact your blood flow and health.
A good rule to remember is to shop the outer isles of your grocery store. This is where you’ll find the fresher, unprocessed foods like produce, meat, and eggs. Even better, visit your local farmer’s market to look for grass-fed and pasture-finished meats.
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Eat more fermented foods and consider a probiotic supplement.
Balancing your gut microbiome can help support healthy blood flow. Studies have found links between good health and fermented foods, suggesting that eating fermented foods – such as yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, kombucha, kimchi and fermented pickles (not pickled with vinegar) – help your cardiovascular health.
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Optimize your vitamin D levels.
Researchers have discovered that a lack of vitamin D can contribute to stiff arteries. Sunlight exposure – the best way to get vitamin D – increases the level of NO in your skin, which helps dilate your blood vessels. It’s a good idea to get your vitamin D levels tested regularly.
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Increase your consumption of whole food sources of nitrates.
The latest research suggests that your blood flow and cardiovascular health benefit greatly from a diet rich in vegetables and fruits. Certain vegetables and a few fruits contain natural, health-promoting nitrates. Add one or two (we’ll discuss them in the next section) to your diet each day to boost your healthy blood flow.
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Used filtered water as much as possible to avoid fluoride and chlorine.
When these common water additives are present in your drinking and showering water, they can convert NO into other substances, including toxic and destructive nitric acid.
When you take simple measures like these, you’ll be rewarded with improved cardiovascular health and new-found energy.* You’ll be helping to nourish your heart, brain and muscles with the oxygen and nutrients they need for optimal functioning.
Adding beets to your daily regimen is another important step you can take…
From 36 Percent to Nearly Zero… How We Made the Sugars in Beets Vanish
As I mentioned earlier, beets and juice made from fresh beets are high in sugar, and that can be a potential concern for maintaining healthy blood sugar levels.
Because beets contain 36% simple carbs or sugars, you can’t eat or drink large amounts without consuming a high amount of sugar and non-fiber carbs.
But when you ferment beets, something interesting happens...
Beneficial bacteria created during the fermentation process consume most of the naturally occurring sugars.
Fermentation effectively removes the simple carbs in beets as their glucose content converts to alcohol, which then quickly evaporates.
This is in stark contrast to some other non-fermented beet powders that may contain high levels of sugars.
And fermentation offers additional benefits, including improving bioavailability of minerals and antioxidants, and actually increasing levels of certain nutrients.
Organic Fermented Beet Powder, made from Certified USDA Organic dried beet roots, is made using a precise, controlled process that interrupts the fermentation at its optimal point. With the finished product, you get all the health boosting benefits of fresh beets without the high sugar normally found in beets.
We even tested it… Before fermentation, there were 2 grams of sugar per 5 gram serving. After fermentation, that number plummeted to less than 10mg per serving – a negligible amount!
Plus, we made another surprising discovery with our tests: Fermentation more than doubled the nitrate content of the beets.
Beyond Nitric Oxide: My Organic Fermented Beet Powder Contains Important Immune and Cell Health Support Nutrients
Rich in a wide variety of nutrients, Organic Fermented Beet Powder is also a good source of:
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Phytochemical compounds like carotenoids, phenolic acids and flavonoids that give beets their deep red color and provide potent support for healthy cell growth and function.
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Antioxidant compounds, including highly bioactive betalain pigments and sulfur-containing amino acids to support your body’s natural Phase 2 detoxification process and to help protect against oxidative stress.
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Vitamin C, fiber, potassium and manganese to support your healthy immune function.
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Folate, an important B vitamin especially for pregnant women and for supporting your cardiovascular health.
And because it’s made from Certified USDA Organic beets, it’s free of GMO’s, as well as chemical pesticide and herbicide residues.
Each 5 gram serving of Fermented Beet Powder is equivalent to 40 grams – or about 1/3 cup – of whole, fresh beet roots.
Best of all, Organic Fermented Beet Powder is simple to use. Add a scoop to your daily smoothie or mix with water or other beverages for a convenient, nitrate-rich energy boost.
Support Your Healthy Blood Flow and Energy With Organic Fermented Beet Powder*
If you want to optimize your energy for all of life’s pleasures – and responsibilities – and help keep your mind sharp and youthful, look no further than Organic Fermented Beet Powder.
Made with organic dried red beets, it’s perfect for any age, and for anyone who wants the benefits that come with higher levels of nitric oxide.
Abundant nitric oxide levels support:
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A healthy normal inflammatory response.
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Healthy blood flow throughout your body and brain.
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Your body’s natural detoxification processes.
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Immune and cellular health.
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Brain neuroplasticity, or the ability to form new neural pathways.
By promoting healthy nitric oxide function and supporting healthy blood flow throughout your body and brain, this very low sugar Organic Fermented Beet Powder with more than double the nitrate content can help you regain the energy of years past.
Take your energy level and mental clarity to the next level with nature’s nitric oxide support system, and order Organic Fermented Beet Powder today.