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pablodomene

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StanwaySteve62

I'm interested.
I do worry about how hard I push.
I'm 48 and 17stone and just back from a 48 mile ride at an avg of 19mph, thing is my max HR is 204 and for the 2and half hours my avg HR was 180.
Thing is I felt fine doing this ?
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/87225600

amaferanga

StanwaySteve62 wrote:

I'm interested.
I do worry about how hard I push.
I'm 48 and 17stone and just back from a 48 mile ride at an avg of 19mph, thing is my max HR is 204 and for the 2and half hours my avg HR was 180.
Thing is I felt fine doing this ?
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/87225600

If you're worried you should see a health professional, not volunteer for a research study!

Anonymous

This research has recently been done and published :?

Herbsman

Where's it published? I've been interested in the effects of beetroot juice for a long time

Anonymous

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19661447

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21071588

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21471821

pablodomene

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StanwaySteve62

amaferanga wrote:

StanwaySteve62 wrote:

I'm interested.
I do worry about how hard I push.
I'm 48 and 17stone and just back from a 48 mile ride at an avg of 19mph, thing is my max HR is 204 and for the 2and half hours my avg HR was 180.
Thing is I felt fine doing this ?
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/87225600

If you're worried you should see a health professional, not volunteer for a research study!

Maybe "aware" would have been a better word than " worried"

Herbsman

NapoleonD wrote:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19661447

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21071588

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21471821

Cheers, I read a similar studiy stating that a 2% increase in endurance was measured in people who drank beetroot juice vs. people who drank a placebo. With regard to the first one, is 9 cyclists enough really? Will they be aiming to study more cyclists in the next one I wonder.

pablodomene wrote:

Incidentally, for those that are not aware of the peculiar taste of whole beets or beets in juice form - spinach has just as much if not more nitrate in it!

I like betroot but I already eat a fair bit of spinach. If I eat plenty of it every day for a week before a race does this mean I'll get dropped after 102 minutes instead of 100?

robdaykin

I was interested, right up to the point where Pablo said

Our supplement is nitrate in its isolated form

Now that I'd love to see.

Precisely what dosage level of 'what' nitrate are you talking about? Potassium, hydrogen, strontium (just kidding)?, something organic? Like nitroglycerine (glyceryl trinitrate)? Ammonium Nitrate (fertiliser)?

Most have fairly low mammalian toxicity, but

nitrate in its isolated form

is a bit too pseudo-science for my tastes.

pablodomene

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Headhuunter

Doesn't excessive dietary nitrate increase cancer risk? I'd be interested in taking part but Twickenham's a fair way from me... Would we have to go there often?!

pablodomene

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Headhuunter

pablodomene wrote:

At the doses that are used for research purposes...no, absolutely not. In fact, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence from numerous research teams around the world that dietary nitrate (i.e. food sources such as spinach or beets) is in fact cardioprotective and beneficial for health.

Participants will be required to come in for 5 sessions, with each session lasting about 1.5 hours. The sessions can be scheduled over a period of about 3 or 4 weeks.

Cheers,
Pablo Domene, BA

School of Human Sciences
St Mary's University College
Waldegrave Road
Strawberry Hill
Twickenham
TW1 4SX

Email: 090627@live.smuc.ac.uk
Mobile: 07551 321637

OK, think I may have to rule myself out, not sure I can commit to trekking out there 5 times over 3-4 weeks. Sorry...