Adjuvant Nitrate to Boost Exercise-induced Health Benefits in Older Adults

Sponsor: Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Conditions: Aging, Aging Well, Healthy Aging

Interventions: Nitrate enriched beetroot juice, Nitrate depleted beetroot juice, 12 week of combined exercise training

Countries: United States

Aging-related functional declines are thought to be caused by hallmark biological processes that ultimately manifest in physical, mental, and metabolic impairments to compromise intrinsic capacity and healthspan. Exercise is the only multipotent treatment with promise to mitigate many of the aging hallmarks, but there is substantial variability in individual exercise responsiveness. Thus, the investigators approach to boosting exercise responsiveness in aging is to combine an exercise training prescription containing both endurance and resistance training (in alignment with DHHS guidelines) with a nitrate-enriched dietary supplement to augment the cellular, tissue, and systemic adaptations that induce myriad health benefits of exercise in older adults.