Well shit, I've been writing about this for years. But still they do not give any food types or amounts that could be used by laypersons to reduce blood pressure. So this is a totally fucking worthless piece of research at least in the abstract. Once again you are on your own. This is why I eat beets.
Dietary Nitrate Lowers Blood Pressure: Epidemiological, Pre-clinical Experimental and Clinical Trial Evidence
Gee LC1, Ahluwalia A2.
Abstract
Nitric
oxide (NO), a potent vasodilator critical in maintaining vascular
homeostasis, can reduce blood pressure in vivo. Loss of constitutive NO
generation, for example as a result of endothelial dysfunction, occurs
in many pathological conditions, including hypertension, and contributes
to disease pathology. Attempts to therapeutically deliver NO via
organic nitrates (e.g. glyceryl trinitrate, GTN) to reduce blood
pressure in hypertensives have been largely unsuccessful. However, in
recent years inorganic (or 'dietary') nitrate has been identified as a
potential solution for NO delivery through its sequential chemical
reduction via the enterosalivary circuit. With dietary nitrate found in
abundance in vegetables this review discusses epidemiological,
pre-clinical and clinical data supporting the idea that dietary nitrate
could represent a cheap and effective dietary intervention capable of
reducing blood pressure and thereby improving cardiovascular health.
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