From heart health to enhanced performance, HumanN’s CEO Joel Kocher is hailing nitric oxide and its ability to address a broad range of health needs by supporting blood flow in different ways.
The UK’s Loughborough University has finalised a collaboration with Bio-gen Extracts to study the firm’s beetroot extract and its role in exercise performance and cardiovascular health.
Beetroot nitrates combined with citrulline helped amateur triathletes cover more distance in a standardized running test. It’s the first time these two longtime sports nutrition ingredients have been studied together in this way, the researchers said.
There has been much interest in the potential of nitrate-rich beetroot in the sports nutrition realm, but a recent study suggests that it may not exert any benefits as a post-marathon recovery aid.
An investigation into beetroot supplements on the Polish market has found "inappropriate quality" which may pose a risk to consumers' health and that could be controlled with tighter regulations.
Canadian researchers have determined via a meta analysis that nitrate supplementation may be beneficial in some aspects of endurance sports, but caution that the data supporting the notion is mediocre at best.
Consuming just one cup of leafy green vegetables daily could boost muscle function a study says, which thinks high nitrate consumption is a way to promote lower-limb muscle strength and physical function.
