Ever heard that beetroot juice reduces blood pressure and keeps your heart in a good shape? There are many benefits to consuming this plant rich in multiple vitamins and nutrients. It increases your stamina, helps to reduce birth defects, helps prevent dementia, aids in purification of blood and liver, helps prevent respiratory problems, and even takes care of your eyes, according to Lybrate. In addition to all these wonderful health benefits, the beetroot also helps naturally lower blood pressure!
In a Hypertension study led by researchers at Queen Mary University in London, University College London, and University of Exeter and Plymouth, fifteen randomized healthy volunteers were chosen to drink 500 milliliters of beetroot juice. The scientists observed the effects. They concluded that when consumed as part of a normal diet for healthy adults, beetroot juice lowers BP (blood pressure) in men significantly.
First, let’s take a look at the potential risks of having high-blood pressure. If you don’t control it, it can:
- Damage your arteries, making them less elastic and restricting blood flow throughout your body.
- Destruct your heart by limiting blood flow and thus causing heart attacks (when blood does not circulate throughout your body properly, it cannot reach your heart, so you experience pain, especially in the chest area). It could also lead to heart failures (heart muscle cannot function anymore).
- Harm your brain by causing TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack), strokes, dementia, and sometimes even cognitive impairment.
- Limit the functions of your kidneys by causing kidney failures or scarring (kidneys are unable to filter waste efficiently).
- Limit your eye vision by causing eye blood vessel damage, building fluid under the retina, or damaging your nerves.
- Cause sexual dysfunction.