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nitrateFinding

Nitrate has no detected effect on time to exhaustion

no difference foundLimited evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“Exercise TTE did not differ between PL-MORN (307 ± 96 s), BR-MORN (308 ± 71 s), PL-AFT (321 ± 81 s), BR-AFT (311 ± 68 s), PL-EVE (306 ± 76 s) and BR-EVE (318 ± 83 s), (P > 0.050, n p 2 = 0.02; Fig. 4).”
Quoted verbatim from Influence of acute dietary nitrate supplementation timing on nitrate metabolism, central and peripheral blood pressure and exercise tolerance in young men.
This finding among the 18 findings on its endpoint

nitrate

Time to exhaustion

no difference found

Who
Twelve healthy, recreationally active young men; six conditions of nitrate-depleted (PL) or nitrate-rich (BR) beetroot juice taken in the morning, afternoon or evening; severe-intensity cycle ergometer test
Dose studied
single acute dose, 2 × 70 mL concentrated beetroot juice (13 mmol NO3−) versus nitrate-depleted juice (~0.04 mmol NO3−), exercise about 2.5 h after ingestion

Limited evidencePMID 38040982 · 2024

02 · The study

Study
crossover
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderate
  • limitedthis finding
  • very limited
  • insufficient

04 · To cite this finding

This address does not change

https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6ZATP62JGEFW1MY8VNZASZ5