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Nathan S. Bryan, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine within the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, part of the School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He is also on faculty within the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the UT Houston Medical School. Dr. Bryan earned his undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and his doctoral degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. He pursued his post-doctoral training as a Kirschstein Fellow at Boston University School of Medicine in the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute. Dr. Bryan joined the Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, in June 2006. Dr. Bryan’s research is dedicated to providing a better understanding of the key role nitric oxide plays in health and disease. He devoted 12 years of research into diagnosing nitric oxide (N-O) insufficiency and natural strategies to restore N-O production in the body. What was discovered may provide the basis for new preventive and therapeutic strategies in diseases associated with N-O insufficiency and new fundamental guidelines for optimal health.

Dr. Bryan has published a number of highly cited papers and authored or edited 4 books.

Carolyn Pierini CLS (ASCP), CNC is a (California-licensed) Clinical Laboratory Scientist and Medical Microbiologist with over 20 years experience in the hospital laboratory departments of chemistry, hematology, immunology, and in particular, microbiology. The effects of nutrient growth factors on microbial morphology eventually led her to the biochemistry of human nutrigenomics - an area of functional medicine that identifies the effects of food, lifestyle and environmental factors as major determinants for the state of one’s health.

As a nutritional consultant, Carolyn began educating others about the epigenetic science of achieving optimal health, incorporating innovative approaches and using routine blood and urine chemistry findings for identifying patterns related to nutritional needs. She has authored numerous technical articles and professional materials for health care providers, has been a technical advisor to doctors, educational webinar host, TV and radio guest panelist, lecturer and formulation consultant. Investigating underlying causes for disease naturally led her into nitric oxide education because of its primary, foundational significance in human health.

Contents

Introduction

The Beeting Heart

The Beetiful Color

A Beet More

The Unbeetable Benefit

Go Beetroot!

How to Take Control of Your N-O Levels to “Beet the Odds”

Vegetables and fruits

contain the anti-carcinogenic cocktail

to which we are adapted.

We abandon it at our peril.

Epidemiologist, John Potter MD

Introduction

How is it possible that we missed this? Our ancestors didn’t miss it. How could we have ignored a food that has been faithfully passed to us through countless generations - a food whose appearance is the clue that shouts to us – the one food that possesses the extraordinary benefit for our own heart and circulatory system? It’s just a mere oversight that nearly cost us our lives, as heart disease is the number one killer of humans. But the truth is about to set us free.

Re-welcome, Beta vulgaris or beetroot (beet, table, red or garden beet), a truly remarkable food gift to the human body that is now getting the attention it deserves. After all, from leaves to root this vegetable has sustained many civilizations for thousands of years. Beet leaves are undoubtedly nutritious and tasty but it is the beet root that will be the central focus of this book. The beloved beet plant has survived through cultivation to the present because of one simple but important fact – extreme nutritional value.

The beet appeared to have lost its popularity in some places but remained a traditional mainstay in others such as in Eastern and Central Europe and India. Some speculate that beets were usurped by spinach. The good news is that the beleaguered beet is making a triumphant comeback thanks to science and a greater understanding of the power contained within it. If someone does not become a disciple of beets through taste, at least initially, they just might come around once they discover the miraculous health benefits that beets can provide.

Perhaps the most under-appreciated food in the history of eating is the beet. Historically, as a source of food, it was easily grown most of the year, had long storability and adapted well to a wide variety of climates. From the earliest times of medicine, beets have been used to address:

• kidney dysfunction

• skin and dandruff complaints

• fever

• heart disease

• anemia and blood disorders

• poor circulation

• cancer

• liver and gallbladder conditions

• constipation

• alertness and energy needs

• sexual performance

Today, the beet is still used as a “functional” food to support a wide range of health concerns and beet powder is an active ingredient in multiple types of nutritional supplements. However, beets and beet powders can vary significantly in their effectiveness.