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Nitrate Supplementation Study Supports "Increased Blood Flow ➲ Increased Performance" Claim From NO-Write-Ups

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Does the vasodilatory effect of nitrates have a direct ergogenic effect that correlates with increases in blood flow? If you are someone who actually reads the "product write-ups" (=ads) for NO boosters you will have heard the claim that the NO-induced vasodilation and the subsequent increase in blood flow will have significant performance enhancing effects. If you are a critical thinker, you will yet also have noticed that a "[citation]" (=reference) that would prove this claim is missing... with the publication of a recent study from the  Université Droit et Santé Lille this may change in future write-ups. In said study, Julien Aucouturier et al. tried to determine whether 3 days on NO3-rich beetroot juice would boost the tolerance to supra-maximal intermittent exercise. You can learn more about beetroot juice at the SuppVersity Ask Dr. Andro: Is Creatine Nitrate Worth It? Nitrate Drugs Work, But Are Not Safe Win the Super Bowl w/ Beet- root J...
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The Beat Your Personal Bests W/ Beets 101: How Much? 8.4 mmol Nitrate ~400-1300g Beets! When? 2.5h Pre Workout!

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There are two things you have to keep in mind, when you want to reap the benefits: Timing and dosage. With the currently available nitrate-based / -containing supplements, and both were probably off for the average customer. It has gotten quiet around nitrate supplements. Irrespective of a handful of interesting studies that were published in the past months (Hoon. 2013; Thompson. 2013), the negative results got more attention among the disappointed consumers of one of the profoundly underdosed nitrate supplements that have suffocated the initial enthusiasm on part of the average and extraordinary gym rat. The use of the natural alternative, i.e. beet root juice, on the other hand, is complicated, because there is little information on how much nitrate you need and how much of it can be found in the average beet from the supermarket. Nitrates for your heart: I know ergogenics are sexy, but how sexy is an increase in performance for someone who suffers from regular age- or self-...
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With Beetroot Juice to the SuperBowl XLVIII: 490ml Beetroot Juice Will do the Ergogenic Trick in Team Sports. Plus: Brief Research Overview to Identify Who Else Will Benefit

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There are a couple of important confounding factors which will determine whether or not you or anyone else can benefit from nitrate supplementation. Sex is yet - as far as I know know - not one of them... ah, by the way, there may be other benefits to nitrates that are "sex-specific", but in this case the semantics are somewhat different ;-) You know that the SuppVersity is all about self-education (hence "-versity " as in Uni versity ), so what would be better than using the publication of the latest paper on the purported ergogonic effects of nitrates as an incentive to "inform" you about the current state of the research? Sounds good? I would think so. Let's take a look, then. What's this nitrate business all about? Contrary to the argument many supplement vendors have been bringing forward to make muscleheads buy their products, the idea is not to use the vasodilating effects for cosmetic pumps that will make you feel - as Arnold said it ...
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Nitrates Work! Even at Low Doses of 300-500mg. Athletes Who Take More or Confuse Nitrates With Nitrites Face Potential Health Risks. First NO2-"Victim" in the ER.

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Image 1: With nitrate and nitrite, a single letter is of literally vital importance. You probably expected another issue of the famous "Ask Dr. Andro" segment today... ? Well, I have in fact been working on something, but firstly, the topic turned out to be so epic that I could hardly have delivered a post in the usual SuppVersity quality within the next few hours, and secondly, a previous installment of the series on creatine nitrate (cf. Ask Dr. Andro: Is Creatine Nitrate Worth It? ), in which I explained why I think that the heavily marketed "revolutionary" creatine supplement probably does not provide any additional benefits beyond supplementing creatine monohydrate and nitrate, individually, urgently needed a follow up. While the ergogenic potential of creatine monohydrate and its safety are well established (and I do not think I have to recite the whole litany about creatine causing kidney failure, again!? cf. Creatine Save - For Diabetics, As Wel...
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High School Athletes on Dope? Not Really, But Roughly 1/3 Uses "Performance Enhancing Supplements"

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"Don't you take those steroids!" Does this remind you of your mother, when, back in high school, you bought your first tub of creatine monohydrate ? Recent doping "scandals" have, yet again, raised the awareness, or should I say panicky fear of parents and coaches that their children and wards are going to be delinquent, when they save their allowances for a shopping spree at the local GNC. Accordingly, many of them will not be happy to hear that a recent study published in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research ( Piattolly. 2011 ) found that "[a]lmost a third [32.2%] of the high school sample surveyed reported using nutritional or performance enhancement supplements." Figure 1: Type of performance enhancing supplement used by high school athletes (data adapted from Piattolly. 2011 ) Interestingly, of those 32.2% of the young athletes that reported using supplements, the majority were male (87%) and in the age group of 15-17 year-ol...
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