Buried Treasure™ Treasured Beets is a super concentrated beet juice (15:1) that naturally provides an array of several health benefits.
It is formulated to contain 10X times more antioxidants than your average beetroot juice.
Treasured Beets is also nitric oxide supplement, containing 25X times more nitrate than your average beetroot juice.
Nitric Oxide which is an important substance naturally produced by all cells in the body. It functions to boost muscle performance, increase blood flow, and enhance libido (1).
What is Beetroot Juice and Nitric Oxide
Beet juice has long been used for its many health benefits.
It is made from the common root vegetable, beets. Beets are packed with nutrients that provide a variety of positive effects on your health, including improved blood flow, reduced muscle soreness, and enhanced athletic performance (2).
Nutritionally, it is low in calories and full of vitamins and minerals that provide the many health benefits above. These nutrients include (3):
- Fiber – Beetroot is high in fiber (2-3 grams per ¾ cup). Fiber maintains digestive health, helps keep you fuller longer, and keeps bowel movements regular.
- Folate – Folate is a B vitamin (B9) that is essential for tissue growth and cell growth and function.
- Manganese – Manganese is an essential mineral that helps with the breakdown of macronutrients and helps the body use several vitamins for a number of functions.
- Potassium – Potassium is one of the most important minerals in the body. It is involved in regulating blood flow, contracting muscles, and sending nerve signals throughout the body.
- Iron – Iron has many functions, but it is primarily used as a component of hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells. Hemoglobin helps carry and deliver oxygen through the body.
- Vitamin C – Vitamin C is an antioxidant and assists in boosting immune function, protecting against oxidative damage, healing wounds, and maintaining bone structure and density.
- Plant Compounds – Beetroot contains a number of natural compounds. Betanin the pigment that gives beets their red color and provides antioxidant power. Vulgaxanthin is also a pigment, but gives yellow and orange beets their color. It provides plenty of fiber a variety micronutrients.
Nitric oxide is another plant compound of beets and provides a majority
It is naturally produced by all cells (in plant, animals, and humans) and is one variety of inorganic nitrates, along with nitrates and nitrites (3).
Nitric oxides provides many of the health benefits you see from beets, including improving athletic performance, boost blood flow, and enhance vitality.
The 3 Benefits of Treasured Beets
Treasured Beets provides 3 key benefits as a nitric oxide supplement.
It has been formulated and super concentrated to improve muscle performance, increase blood flow, and enhance vitality.
- Muscle performance
As stated above, nitric oxide is a natural inorganic substance found in beets, but also found in the cells of the human body.
Numerous studies have been done on nitric oxide and its effect on high-intensity endurance exercises and its ability to enhance physical performance (3). This has caused it to be used as a popular pre-workout, performance, and recovery supplement for athletes and exercise enthusiasts.
In the body, it helps with vasodilation (widening the blood vessels), which allows an increase of nutrients to muscles during exercise and more efficient use of oxygen to enhance performance for a more beneficial and complete workout (1).
It also helps control and reduces muscle soreness post-workout.
- Increase blood flow
Similar to how the components in beets help improve physical performance, vasodilation is an important aspect of improving blood flow (4).
By promoting relaxation, nitric oxide helps the blood vessels dilate. Dilation of the blood vessels decreases the stress of forced, high-pressure blood flow. This is important because stress on the veins can lead to a variety of cardiovascular issues (3).
- Enhanced vitality
For both men and women, vitality and libido naturally decreases with age.
The nitric oxide in beets has been shown to reduce issues like Erectile Dysfunction (ED) in men.
ED is commonly caused by high blood pressure, and nitric oxide helps widen blood vessels, increase blood flow, and decrease stress (5). This lowers blood pressure.
Women can also consume beetroot supplements for increased libido.
- Other benefits (2)
Antioxidants and reduced inflammation – Beets contain antioxidant micronutrients that protects against free radicals and oxidative stress.
Increased digestive health – The amount of fiber in beets helps keep the digestive system running efficiently and feed beneficial bacteria in the intestines.
Enhanced brain health – Increased blood flow of nitric oxide allows more oxygen to be delivered to the brain, allowing it to work more efficiently.
Seek advice from a medical professional
A large benefit of beetroot juice is that it is normally well tolerated by the body with minimal to no adverse side effects (3).
Although, it has been known to tint the urine a pink or red color, which can sometimes been mistaken for blood in the urine.
However, certain individual should consider using consuming beetroot juice with caution – those prone to developing kidney stones (due to beet’s high oxalate content) and those on a low FOPMAPs diet (due to the fructans in beets) (3).
As always, it is important to seek the advice of a trusted medical professional if you are taking a new supplement. Especially if you are already taking medications that may have adverse interactions with any ingredients in this supplement.
Can Treasured Beets help improve your muscle performance?
Treasured Beets is a highly concentrated beetroot juice containing a variety of nutrients, micronutrients, and plant compounds that boosts health and provides many benefits.
As a nitric oxide supplement, it is formulated to contain 25X times more nitrate and 10X times more antioxidants than your average beetroot juice.
If you are looking for supplement that functions as a pre-workout, performance, and recovery aid that also increases blood flow and enhances vitality, then Treasured Beets may be the perfect boost you need.
Author: Allison Lansman, RDN, LD
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