I'm 58. My doctor looked at me across the desk and said the words I'd been dreading.

I did everything I possibly could.

I cut the salt. I lost the weight. I walked after dinner every single night for months.

And I wrote down the number every day like the writing itself might change it.

Page after page, same story. Some days a little better, some days worse. But the line never actually went anywhere.

My husband stopped asking what the reading was. Not because he stopped caring. Because he could read it on my face before I said it.

And the only thing I had to show for it was a fuller notebook.

Then my sister said something that stuck.

I didn't have an answer.

So for once I put the pen down and started reading about why the number was stuck.

And it kept coming back to one word I did not expect.

Your blood vessels are lined with living tissue that is supposed to relax and open so blood moves through easy.

The signal that tells them to relax is a molecule called nitric oxide. Your body makes less of it as you get older.

Pretty soon, you're feeling weaker. Tired. Your BP goes up, and your zest for life goes down.

Beets are loaded with the nitrates your body turns into that exact molecule. They support healthy circulation and healthy blood pressure the natural way, by giving your body the raw material it was running low on.