Unived Elite Beet - 420

Key Benefits

• Supports optimal sports performance.
• Improved energy, stamina, and endurance.
• Efficient oxygen uptake and extended exercise endurance.
• May support respiratory health and healthy blood pressure levels.
• Antioxidant protection.
• Lower exercise mean arterial pressure.

Serving Size & Servings Per Container

Serving Size: One Packet | 20

Suggested Use

Mix one Packet in 8fl oz (250ml) of water, stir until dissolved. You may choose to use cold or hot water, depending on your preference consume 30-45 minutes prior to your endurance activity. For optimal resultes , we recommend consuming this in the morning before you brush your teeth. Brushing teeth, or using mouth wash, destroys oral bacteria prevalent in the mouth which play an essential role in nitic oxide production.

The physical capacity of athletes is an important element of success in sports achievements. It involves a huge number of different capacities, with aerobic capacity being its major component. Aerobic capacity is one of the keys to endurance, optimal performance and training. Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) refers to the intensity of aerobic processes and actually represents the capacity of the organism to utilize at a certain moment the maximum amount of oxygen. Maximal oxygen uptake has been regarded as the best indicator of the aerobic capacity of the organism, i.e. the functional capacities of cardiovascular and respiratory systems, as well as the capacity of tissues to utilize oxygen [1].

Athletes often fall short of oxygen capacity or utilization due to minimal oxygen uptake owing to the intense activity of the sport or training and the environment. Increasing the VO2 max increases better oxygen uptake and utilization and thus resulting in better endurance, performance, and training. Dietary nitrate is a well-known vasodilator that increases oxygen uptake and utilization and has many positive physiological benefits.

Our Formulation

Unived’s Elite Beet-420™ is a Beetroot Extract (6.5g of which 420mg pure dietary nitrate) standardized to 6.5% dietary nitrates.

Mode of Action:

Upon consumption, Dietary Nitrates get converted to Nitrites by the anaerobic bacteria in the oral cavity by the action of nitrate reduction enzymes. Nitrite is further converted to the bioactive form - Nitric Oxide (NO) in the stomach which results in Vasodilation.

Nitric Oxide induces several beneficial physiological mechanisms that influence Oxygen utilization during the contraction of skeletal muscle.

Nitric Oxide results in Vasodilation of blood vessels which in turn results in,

• Increased oxygen uptake.
• Increased utilization (VO2 max).
• Improved blood circulation.
• Improve mitochondrial efficiency.
• Reduces blood pressure.
• Promotes glucose uptake.
• Enhance muscle contraction and relaxation.

Nitric Oxide has an important role in the adaptation processes under hypoxic conditions, the vasodilatory effects of NO may favor oxygen delivery, and supplementation with beetroot juice could be effective in reducing the ergolytic effects of hypoxia in cardiorespiratory endurance [2].

References:

1. Rankovic G, Mutavdzic V, Toskic D, Preljevic A, Kocic M, Nedin Rankovic G, Damjanovic N. Aerobic capacity as an indicator in different kinds of sports. Bosn J Basic Med Sci. 2010 Feb;10(1):44-8. doi: 10.17305/bjbms.2010.2734. PMID: 20192930; PMCID: PMC5596610.

2. Jones AM. Dietary nitrate supplementation and exercise performance. Sports Med. 2014 May;44 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S35-45. doi: 10.1007/s40279-014-0149-y. PMID: 24791915; PMCID: PMC4008816.

3. Mills, Charlotte Elizabeth, et al. "It is rocket science–why dietary nitrate is hard to ‘beet’! Part II: further mechanisms and therapeutic potential of the nitrate‐nitrite‐NO pathway." British journal of clinical pharmacology 83.1 (2017): 140-151.

4. Kocoloski GM, Crecelius AR. Effects of Single-Dose Dietary Nitrate on Oxygen Consumption During and After Maximal and Submaximal Exercise in Healthy Humans: A Pilot Study. Int J Exerc Sci. 2018 May 1;11(3):214-225. PMID: 29795728; PMCID: PMC5955288.

5. Radak Z, Zhao Z, Koltai E, Ohno H, Atalay M. Oxygen consumption and usage during physical exercise: the balance between oxidative stress and ROS-dependent adaptive signaling. Antioxid Redox Signal. 2013 Apr 1;18(10):1208-46. doi: 10.1089/ars.2011.4498. Epub 2012 Nov 16. PMID: 22978553; PMCID: PMC3579386.

Ingredient

Active Ingredient per Serving (1 Sachet- 6.5g)