Beetroot juice supplementation reduces the oxygen cost of exercise without improving mitochondrial efficiency: but how?

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1. The chemistry of the nitrate-nitrite-nitric oxide pathway: regulating muscle oxygenation and exercise performance.RSC advances · 2026
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2. Nitrite lowers the oxygen cost of ATP supply in cultured skeletal muscle cells by stimulating the rate of glycolytic ATP synthesis.PloS one · 2022
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3. "Beet-ing" the Mountain: A Review of the Physiological and Performance Effects of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation at Simulated and Terrestrial Altitude.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017
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4. Effects of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation on Physiological Responses, Cognitive Function, and Exercise Performance at Moderate and Very-High Simulated Altitude.Frontiers in physiology · 2017
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  Beetroot juice supplementation reduces whole body oxygen consumption but does not improve indices of mitochondrial efficiency in human skeletal muscle.2016

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