Performance Nutrition Digest

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Beetroot juice for virtual cycling - placebo, performance or powerless 🧐

Is the juice worth the squeeze?

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Tom Coughlin
Apr 27, 2026
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Physiological and Placebo Effects of Beetroot Juice in Virtual Cycling Using the Balanced Placebo Design

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This new study recruited 67 trained cyclists to perform a 20-min virtual cycling time trial after taking either…

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