Beet-it shots
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17 Apr
10:12am, 17 Apr 2025
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Cerrertonia
Hard to know whether it improves running performance, but it has an easily measurable effect on reducing my blood pressure, so there's clearly something real there. If you look at the relevant research papers, there seems to be some interaction with toothpaste - you need the juice to interact with germs in your mouth and cleaning your teeth after drinking it stops that.
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17 Apr
10:16am, 17 Apr 2025
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Blister
I bought a whole box of them in 2023 for the same reasons. I tried them out for an entire season, taking a 'shot' an hour or so before races (I typically race 800m and 1500m). Apart from the horrible taste and pink urine (which is a bit disconcerting at first!) I didn't notice any performance benefits. Perhaps there were, but I didn't have a non beetroot juice benchmark to test against, and even if it did improve my performance, it would have probably been less than a second.
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17 Apr
10:16am, 17 Apr 2025
35,137 posts
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Rosehip
ugh, beetroot 🤢 I heard, or read? something recently that there is a blackcurrant extract that is even better - but can't find that now I don't like black currents either, nor tart cherries - is that the othe roption or for something else? so I didn't take much notice. |
17 Apr
10:19am, 17 Apr 2025
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SilentTim
Muttley wrote: Looking at the cost of it, could you not make your own juice or smoothie? Seems to be 90% beetroot and 10% apple. I'm a big fan of beetroot and use it for making borshch. Only problem is that unless I'm careful the kitchen ends up looking like a murder scene. Ha, that's always a risk!! We quite like borscht too. Many years ago, when the kids were babies, our nursery called us in a panic because they thought they saw some blood in one of their nappies the night after us having borscht 😂 |
17 Apr
11:39am, 17 Apr 2025
3,947 posts
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Muttley
Good job you hadn't been feeding him blueberries then!
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