
Beetroot juice helps against hypertension. Looking for a natural method for lowering high blood pressure?
Try a glass of beetroot juice. Scientists from the University “Queen Mary” in London found that a cup of beetroot juice lowers high blood pressure of hypertensive patients.
The experiment proved that it acts as a human medication and in others. What caused the reduction in blood pressure with beetroot?
It is an interesting question why beetroot juice lowers blood pressure?
In beetroot juice contains many inorganic nitrates, which can also be found in lettuce and cabbage.
In the body, they are converted into nitric oxide, which dilates blood vessels.

This leads to a lowering of blood pressure. Beetroot juice has been tested on patients aged between 18 and 85 years.
Half of them drank drugs against hypertension, but they have not helped.
Patients were divided into two groups – first drank 250 milliliters of juice per day, and the second placebo medication.
The experiment lasted four weeks, the patients were tested two weeks before and two weeks after the experiment.
4 weeks people drank every day a cup of beetroot juice are lowered systolic blood pressure by 8 mm and diastolic with 4.
For a considerable part of the research, it has meant the return of their blood pressure normal.
It considered also improved by 20% on the indicator to dilate blood vessels.
Thus reduced the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases.
The second group, which is accepted only placebo was left with the same indicators before and after the experiment.
Data University “Queen Mary” show that traditional drugs are usually lowering systolic blood pressure by 9 millimeters and diastolic – 5.