Beetroot can lower your Blood Pressure — if you let it

An emerging interest in the role of diet in our health has slowly bubbled up to a trendy, conscientious lifestyle where many aspire to holistic wellness. Countless recipes circulate on social media and progressive cooking shows that tease the eyes and flirt with the belly. This sort of enthusiasm is, well, healthy in that our food needs to be enjoyed, especially since it should be doing well by our bodies. However attempting to follow nutrition advice from discoveries re-presented can be confusing at times (e.g. wine is cited as both protective and detrimental to heart health (1)).

Although multiple diet regimens have little-to-no scientific basis, many diets have a lot of evidence in the scientific literature (2). And beyond positive food psychology, many of our commonplace fruit and veg are being analysed and tested in laboratories for their natural, reproducible medicinal effect.

A case in point is the tool, (or weapon) that around 2 daily glasses of beetroot juice can be to fix elevated blood pressure (3). This comparison of multiple trials calculated that the average effect of beetroot juice was positive (i.e. high blood pressure was reproducibly lowered). The link between beetroot juice and blood pressure management is not an isolated case of whole plant health solutions for chronic diseases and bad health. Decades of individual trials with a variety of whole plants show a total spectrum of defined medicinal benefits against chronic disease and bad health, which are posted daily here.