Scientists may have found a whole plant food juice, namely beet or beetroot juice exerted a neuroprotective effect and promoted brain health, some scientists suggested.
Beet, best known as the beetroot or garden beet, belongings to the amaranth family, is a perennial plant with leafy stems growing to 1–2 m tall.
Brain health is a broader term of improved function of the normal brain and protected the brain against damage and degeneration as we age.
According to general belief, including daily intake of necessary nutrients together with participation in different mental, social and physical activities may play an essential role in the maintenance of healthy brain and improvement of brain function.
Some researchers suggested that consumption of a Western Diet (WD) high in saturated fat and added sugars is associated to reduced cognitive function, particularly the mnemonic processes due to the diet in promotion of increased production of endotoxin secreted by certain gram-negative bacteria, that have a strong impact in induced neuroinflammation and cognitive dysfunction(3).
People involved in physical exercise may have a decreased risk of developing cognitive impairment, particularly, in the aging population, as exercise improved blood flow to the brain.
Neuroprotection is an action used to ensure the brain to perform normal function against nerve cells damage, degeneration in inducing impairment.
The MVP Samaj's College of Pharmacy, in the study of the effect of beet juice and brain health, suggested that ethnic extract of beet used in experimental animals shows a significant effect in increased motor function at 200, and 300 mg/kg, in dose depending manner.
Physically, the oral administrated animal also showed a strong improvement of the intensity of muscular rigidity, duration of catalepsy, akinesia, the number of tremors, locomotor activity and grip strength.
The efficacy of the extract in the contribution to brain health may due to phytochemicals of beet juice in restoring the defensive antioxidant enzymes in the brain against the level of lipid peroxidation (LPO), a leading cause of neurodegeneration.
More interestingly, Betalains, major phytochemicals isolated from whole plant beetroot in the investigation of oxidative stress demonstrated an extraordinary neuroprotective effect in inhibited overexpression of free radicals in initiated oxidative processes that contribute to the early onset of several degenerative diseases.
Further examination of betanin bioavailability in four volunteers with consumption of 300 mL of red beet juice, containing 120 mg of the antioxidant, researchers found that the phytochemical shows protection against certain oxidative stress-related disorders in humans after being absorbed from the gut and identified in urine between 2-4 h.
Dr. Kanner J, the lead author said, "Antioxidant nutrients from fruits and vegetables are believed to be a class of compounds that exert their effects in humans by preventing oxidative processes which contribute to the onset of several degenerative diseases".
Collectively, Whole food beetroot or beet juice may be used as a therapeutic agent for the prevention of the early onset and treatment of neurodegenerative disease through protection of neurons against oxidation.
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(1) Neuroprotective potential of Beta vulgaris L. in Parkinson's disease by Nade VS1, Kawale LA1, Zambre SS1, Kapure AB1. (PubMed)
(2) Betalains--a new class of dietary cationized antioxidants by Kanner J1, Harel S, Granit R.(PubMed)
(3) Gut to Brain Dysbiosis: Mechanisms Linking Western Diet Consumption, the Microbiome, and Cognitive Impairment by Emily E. Noble,1 Ted M. Hsu,1,2 and Scott E. Kanoski(PMC)
