Beet Juice Boosts Cognitive Function In One Dose [1]

By Sayer Ji [2]
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Could beet juice provide you a brain boost superior to coffee or tea?

Recently, Deanna Minich, PhD, founder of Food and Spirit [3], brought to my attention an amazing new study on beets and their role in promoting cognitive health. She summarized the study as follows:

“One recent study in 40 healthy people showed that they were able to better perform on cognitive tests 90 minutes after drinking 450 mL beetroot juice compared with placebo (apple/blackcurrant juice, which is low in nitrates). What I really like about this study is that brain performance can be improved fairly rapidly in healthy people with a simple activity like drinking beetroot juice (high in dietary nitrates, which leads to more nitric oxide to open up oxygen flow in the brain).”