messtafarian
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There's some talk around the net that eating beets or taking beetroot powder will increase the oxygen that gets into your blood, by taking the nitrate it contains and morphing it into NO2 which will then convert to NO, and increase athletic performance.
I am again perplexed. How could a substance like beetroot increase oxygen? Why is it a good thing that the nitrogen in it ( nitrogen is in all vegetables anyway isn't it? ) turns into NO? What does that have to do with oxygen?
Somebody?
Honestly the more I read out there the more weirded out I get.
I am again perplexed. How could a substance like beetroot increase oxygen? Why is it a good thing that the nitrogen in it ( nitrogen is in all vegetables anyway isn't it? ) turns into NO? What does that have to do with oxygen?
Somebody?
Honestly the more I read out there the more weirded out I get.