Nitrates from beetroot juice help beat back contrast-induced kidney injury

November 2, 2023

Mainstream STUMPED by kidney injury… but THIS natural solution can keep it at bay!

Mainstream medicine is just FULL of these ridiculous trade-offs in the quality of our health. 

In order to ADDRESS one issue… too often we have to SACRIFICE some other aspect of our wellbeing!

A classic example is taking a drug to “fix” one health concern… but feeling WORSE because of the side effects that drug causes.

Here’s another.

Your doc wants to send you in for a special screening of your heart… especially if he suspects a problem with your blood flow, like a BLOCKAGE…

Or because you’ve ALREADY suffered a heart attack…

But the procedure puts your kidneys in the CROSSHAIRS!

Most clinicians have been STUMPED by this risk… having NO recourse to protect your kidneys other than keep you hydrated…

But based on the latest research, that may all change.

See, what happens during a coronary angiography – a.k.a. a heart X-ray – is that they have to PUMP a type of dye (called a “contrast agent”) into you in order to actually SEE anything on the scans.

Unfortunately, many contrast agents are BAD NEWS…

And this particular substance has been shown to cause acute kidney injury… even if you have ZERO prior kidney dysfunction.

So, which would you choose… your heart or your kidneys?

Well, now you might not have to make Sophie’s choice…

Because a new study shows that a simple, natural ingredient could keep renal injury at bay. 

It’s an active compound found in beets… known as nitrate.

Now, we already know that nitrate is a blood flow hero… because of how it’s able to keep blood vessels WIDE and FLEXIBLE. 

But in the study, taking a nitrate capsule BEFORE being injected with the contrast agent helped reduce kidney events by a whopping 60%. 

Now, these were folks that were already in the crosshairs for kidney injury… as they were on the older side (average age 70+)…

Over HALF of them had been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease…

And 45% of them suffered from diabetes, a disease that can WREAK HAVOC on your kidneys.

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Bottom line: nitrate helped the folks who needed it the most!

According to MedPage Today, mainstream medicine has been searching for a solution like this FOR YEARS…

And here it was all along, hiding in the humble beet.

If you’re interested in getting nitrates from beets yourself, make sure they’re organic…

And BOILED… JUICED… or POWDERED in supplement form.

However, if you’re prone to kidney stones, you’ll want to choose an oxalate-free source of nitrates, like red spinach. 

For better health,

Dr. Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D.

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