Beetroot - Cold Hands, Leukoaraiosis, Psychosis and Anxiety in Schizophrenia
Karimnagar, India, where Schizophrenic Rats respond well to Beetroot Juice If you are not old enough to be interested in dementia, skip through those parts of this post and read about schizophrenic mice and beetroot juice. There have been earlier posts regarding using nitric oxide (NO) to improve circulation and derive a cognitive benefit. Many sportsmen have followed up on the research studies that show exercise endurance is improved after taking beet root juice. Since it is not a banned substance they are free to benefit from it. We know that beet root does not only reduces blood pressure but it actually can increases perfusion, or blood flow, to the brain. Reduced blood flow to the brain is a feature of some dementia. Studies have used MRI to show that circulation is increased. A follow up study has recently been published which shows that beet root juice combined with exercise produced MRI results that resemble those of much younger adults. In a previous post we saw that cocoa flav...