Belonging to the species ‘Beta Vulgaris’, beetroot is the taproot part of beet plant is known. It must be noted that wine was coloured with the juice from this beetroot and was consumed by many in the past. In Hindi language this beetroot is called as ‘Chaukander’ is known. Various types of this beetroot are Chioggia, Formanova, Golden, Detroit Dark Red and Lutz Green Leaf. This beetroot usefulness as a medicinal plant is superb.
The hot news that has emerged now is the supplements from beetroot juice would be helpful for heart failure persons as it enhances their exercise capacity.
It is worthy to mention here that exercise capacity is very crucial for people with heart failure issues and a study was carried out on the exercise capacities eight heart failure patients and they were given dietary nitrate in the form of beetroot juice supplements.
According to the latest data it is now clear that tens of millions of people have heart failure and ejaculation fraction of heart is reduced in about half of those people.
During their exercises these people face many difficulties like laboured breathing, diminished intake of peak oxygen and they use more energy when compared to others.
It is now said that beetroot supplements caused increase in the duration of exercises plus peak power and peak oxygen intake during exercises. One important point to note is the above mentioned improvements were not accompanied by changes in the breathing responses of these patients.
For the patients with heart failure decrease in the intake of peak oxygen plus elevations in ventilator demands are very crucial as these two predict the mortality of such patients. It is superb to note that there were no side effects from the dietary nitrate in the form of beetroot supplements.
It must be noted that the above findings were published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure.