Betalain-rich concentrate improves training performance

betalaine have a wide range of biological activities with potential health advantages: they counteract inflammation, protect the liver and have an antioxidant and antioxidant effect.

Gretchen Casazza, the main author of this study, had published a different but very similar study almost 6 months earlier, which suggested similar advantages of a beetroot supplement. In the previous study, 13 competition runners (all male) completed the same double crossover supplement protocol, but with a slightly different and simpler training routine. After the same 6-day routine with 100 mg BRC per day, the participants spent 30 minutes on a treadmill and then completed a 5 km time trial. With the same training intensity, the runners had a heart rate lower compared to the control group compared to the control group, a 15 % lower rate of perceived exertion (RPE) and a 14 % lower blood lactate concentration ( p = 0.05). Also compared to the control, 10 of the 13 runners had faster times in 5 km time trial (23.0 ± 4.2 vs. 23.6 ± 4.0 min) with a lower RPE ( p <0.05) after taking BRC. The lactate dehydrogenase, a marker for muscle damage, rose less strongly from the starting value and 30 minutes after the 5 km time trial after the beetroot treatment, although there were no differences in the subjective measured values ​​for sore muscles and fatigue.

It is enough to say that beetroot extract seems to be helpful for sporting performance. In view of the earlier publications (one of which was reviewed in this journal) on beet extracts and sporting performance, this current data is no surprise. It is surprising that the previously assumed mechanism of action of the nitrate -rich beets is related to the rapid conversion of nitrate into nitric acid. It was assumed that the positive effect of beets is due to the effect of an increase in nitric acid, but the beet concentrates used in these two Casazza studies were nitrate-free. We need a different explanation of why beets help athletes.

Casazza suggests that the benefits of betalaines come. The former of her 2 studies seems to be the first to examine Betalaine alone, without nitrate, and how it influenced the training performance. All previous studies had examined beetroot juice, which contained nitrate. Lansley's study from 2011 used juice about cyclists, which contained 6.2 mmol nitrates. ^{2 and the study by Cermak from 2012 used juice with 8 mmol nitrates. 3 Here too we have to rethink our earlier assumptions, since these 2 recently carried out studies carried out by Casazza nitrate -free beet concentrate used.}

betalaine, which are usually used as food dyes, are the water -soluble pigments that give beets their bright red color. Betalaine have a wide range of biological activities with potential health advantages: they counteract inflammation, protect the liver and have an antioxidant and antioxidant effect. 4 betanine and betanidine, the most important antioxidant components of betalaines, lipid peroxidation and heme mining already inhibit in very low concentrations. Betalaine are now considered a "new class" of dietary antioxidants.

Studies show that pigments in Betalainen inhibit the growth of different types of malignant tumors, including chest, liver, colon and bladder cancer. Betalaine combat cancer by effects on apoptosis - the process of programmed cell death, which is built into all normal cells, but is changed in cancer cells. Other potential mechanisms of action include negative effects on genes that promote the survival of cancer cells and genes that control the growth of blood vessels. The anti -cancer activity of Betalainen is reinforced by this multi -track attack on the growth of cancer cells. In view of the evidence that Betalaine have a wide range of healthy effects in the body, it makes sense that Betalaine is the active part of beet that is responsible for improved training performance.

In recent years, some have applied beet juicer due to nitrogen oxide theory as a vegetable replacement for synthetic phosphodiesterase typ-type 5 inhibitors such as sildenafil (alias viagra). Research suggests that only a few herbs, if at all, actually provide the promised chemical effects and that if these products work, this is secondary to falsifying active ingredients. ^{7 on the other hand, although we do not have to find any publications on this topic, one could argue that the betalaine alone because it is strong antioxidants that reduce reactive oxygen damage, as is other plant polyphenols can protect against damage that leads to erectile dysfunction.}