Hypertension or high blood pressure is one of the most common ailments prevalent across the world. Blood flows from the heart through the arteries to different parts of the body. Often the walls of the arteries get thickened due to deposition of fat and a pressure is created for the blood to flow resulting in hypertension. Persistent hypertension leads to life threatening conditions such as heart attacks, kidney problems and sudden stroke. It is also the leading cause of renal failure too. Causes of hypertension are far too many. Genetics, insulin resistance, age are few of the important factors causing hypertension. Some of the common symptoms of hypertension are pain in the neck region, headache, a feeling of a hangover and redness in the eyes.

It is well researched and studied that beetroot juice helps in reducing hypertension.

• Drinking Beetroot juice of about 500 ml, every day will have a positive impact on hypertension.
• Beetroot is a great source of nitrates. It is studied that the chemical formation of nitrite from the dietary nitrate reduces hypertension to a great extent.
• The nitrates in the juice get broken down by bacteria in the saliva into nitrites. It is only on swallowing the nitrite containing saliva that the nitrite gets converted into nitric acid through the acidic reaction in the stomach or re-enters the circulation as nitrite. Thus nitrite is the definite functional mediator in the beetroot juice to lower hypertension.

Thus beetroot juice is one of the easiest and convenient methods to combat hypertension.

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