{"id":52392,"date":"2017-04-20T21:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T04:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/is-beet-juice-the-secret-to-staying-young"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:28:42","slug":"is-beet-juice-the-secret-to-staying-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/is-beet-juice-the-secret-to-staying-young","title":{"rendered":"Is Beet Juice the Secret to Staying Young?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-beet-juice-the-secret-to-staying-young.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beets are a common sweetening ingredient in the juices you\u2019ll find at most health food stores, but a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/biomedgerontology\/article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/gerona\/glw219\/2452303\/Beet-Root-Juice-An-Ergogenic-Aid-for-Exercise-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> found another reason to drink the bright red juice: It has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/beauty\/tagged\/anti-aging\/\">anti-aging<\/a> benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Wake Forest University knew that exercise has positive anti-aging effects on the brain, and were looking for ways to increase those benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we showed in this brief training study of hypertensive older adults was that, as compared to exercise alone, adding a beet root juice supplement to exercise resulted in brain connectivity that closely resembles what you see in younger adults,\u201d W. Jack Rejeski, co-author of the study, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2017-04\/wfu-wbj041817.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EurekAlert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/beauty\/beet-juice-secret-staying-young-230013608.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/beauty\/beet-juice-secret-staying-young-230013608.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beets are a common sweetening ingredient in the juices you\u2019ll find at most health food stores, but a recent study found another reason to drink the bright red juice: It has anti-aging benefits. Researchers at Wake Forest University knew that exercise has positive anti-aging effects on the brain, and were looking for ways to increase [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56742,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52392\/revisions\/56742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}