If you have been taking beetroot for a few weeks and felt nothing, the problem is not beetroot. It is how much of it is in your capsule. This is one of the few things on the shelf you are supposed to feel the same day you take it, and most people never do, because most bottles never get near the amount the research used.
Beetroot does one thing. It works through nitrate, and your body turns that nitrate into nitric oxide, which relaxes the wall of the vessel. Wider vessel, more oxygen per beat. The whole thing runs on how much you took. The trials worked from about 1,000 mg of root a day and up. On the 26 labels we read, 17 sit under that line. Most of them at 500 mg, which is half a study.
Then there is what the root brought up with it. Beets are heavy feeders. They take in whatever is in the soil, which is exactly why the nitrate is there, and exactly why the growing standard matters. Only 3 of the 26 labels we read print an organic root. The other 23 ask you to take the soil on faith.
The last problem is the format. 9 of the 26 are drink powders and chews, carrying black cherry flavor and stevia or cane sugar. 5 more bury the root inside a blend, where the milligrams disappear. A number you cannot read is not a dose. One formula of 26 printed an organic root above the studied line, with nothing else in the capsule.
Took beetroot for a month and felt nothing? Check the milligrams first.This is the most dose-dependent thing on the shelf. Under the line, there is nothing to feel. A 500 mg capsule once a day is not what the research used, and a blend is not an amount at all. So before you decide beetroot does not work for you, turn the bottle over and read the number next to the root.