date:Aug 30, 2012
ingredient responsible for beetroot juices undoubted ergogenic effects.
Mechanism of action unknown
Dietary nitrate worked by lowering the oxygen cost at a given intensity during exercise, Cermak explained, as your muscles used oxygen more efficiently.
But she said it was unclear how this mechanism works and whether it was primarily responsible for the ergogenic effects; dietary nitrate also lowered blood pressure and improve mitochondrial function, so perhaps multiple mechanisms were at pla