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Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study

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riffraff wrote: post #20
hotpotat wrote: post #12

If you have trouble in bed, ask yourself if you use Listerine. It kills your mouth’s microbiome and lowers your Nitric Oxide production [0]. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31709856/

I don't use Listerine but I didn't get this: trouble in bed of what kind? I couldn't get it from the linked article. I never knew high blood pressure correlates with bad sleep or bad sex (if anything, meds for high blood pressure come with negative effects on that).

The physical performance kind. Conversely beet root, L-Citruline, and supplemental NO are commonly used for ED. That’s why medications like tadalafil and sildenafil work. NO relaxes your blood vessels and increases blood flow generally.

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Post by ulf-77723 »

Some time ago I read the book Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition by Anita Bean, which does also emphasize on not using antibacterial mouthwash since it removes the beneficial bacteria in the mouth which convert nitrate to nitrite.

I‘m drinking beetroot juice since 3 years now and asked myself if beetroot capsules might be an alternative.

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Post by dinfinity »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #22

Comfortable and uninterrupted sleeping, eating mostly plants, and getting your heart rate up and muscles moving for half an hour per day. Anything else is going from 90% healthy to 99%.

I'd like to add: Stretching or some other kind of flexibility improving activities. Muscles moving for half an hour a day doesn't (necessarily) do anything for that (may even make it worse if you're doing heavy stuff).

The effects on quality of life of a bit of flexibility are huge. Back pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, "RSI", and so many other ails are often just pretty much permanently cramped muscles negatively affecting ligaments and nerves.

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Post by fhars »

ulf-77723 wrote: post #32

Some time ago I read the book Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition by Anita Bean, which does also emphasize on not using antibacterial mouthwash since it removes the beneficial bacteria in the mouth which convert nitrate to nitrite. I‘m drinking beetroot juice since 3 years now and asked myself if beetroot capsules might be an alternative.

How would capsules affect the mouth biome, though?

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Post by dinfinity »

ulf-77723 wrote: post #32

Some time ago I read the book Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition by Anita Bean, which does also emphasize on not using antibacterial mouthwash since it removes the beneficial bacteria in the mouth which convert nitrate to nitrite. I‘m drinking beetroot juice since 3 years now and asked myself if beetroot capsules might be an alternative.

For people who don't like drinking beetroot juice, you can also regularly (French) kiss with people with healthy oral microbiomes [0][1]. Best to really get in there.

[0] https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2024/02/20/mo...

[1] https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...

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Post by lotsofpulp »

MengerSponge wrote: post #30
didgeoridoo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plus literally “flavoring” their wine on purpose with lead acetate.

And that was the first and last time that no-calorie sweeteners had deleterious population-level effects

High calorie sweeteners have deleterious population-level effects.

Is there any evidence that modern low calorie sweeteners have deleterious population-level effects, and what are they compared to high calorie sweeteners?

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Post by Workaccount2 »

riffraff wrote: post #20
hotpotat wrote: post #12

If you have trouble in bed, ask yourself if you use Listerine. It kills your mouth’s microbiome and lowers your Nitric Oxide production [0]. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31709856/

I don't use Listerine but I didn't get this: trouble in bed of what kind? I couldn't get it from the linked article. I never knew high blood pressure correlates with bad sleep or bad sex (if anything, meds for high blood pressure come with negative effects on that).

Nitric oxide relaxes your blood cells, letting blood flow easier into parts that erect themselves with blood.

Try taking arginine for a week if you want to experience the effect first hand.

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Post by Workaccount2 »

cobbal wrote: post #13
healsdata wrote: post #6

Isn't nitrates what makes processed meats so unhealthy? Does this mean the bacon that claims to be cured with celery juice is actually on to something?

Celery is just a "natural" source of nitrates/nitrates. This makes it legal somehow to lie and claim "no added nitrates" on the label.

I can't believe the tiktok health cult hasn't caught on to this yet.

Seed oils are the devil but "uncured" meats? All good!

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