{"id":1307,"date":"2025-11-21T07:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:24:20","slug":"paprika-xanthophylls-pxs-boost-endurance-cognitive-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/paprika-xanthophylls-pxs-boost-endurance-cognitive-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Paprika Xanthophylls (PXs) Boost Endurance &amp; Cognitive Function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A crossover trial in 21 college students found that short-term supplementation with paprika xanthophylls (PXs) improved exercise efficiency and reduced heart rate during both incremental and constant load tests. While no significant between-group differences were seen in cognition overall, PX intake enhanced performance in the Trail Making Test-B and Stroop interference tasks. These findings suggest PXs may enhance oxygen delivery efficiency potentially via red blood cell deformability, supporting endurance performance and possibly benefiting cognitive function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2072-6643\/17\/17\/2780\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2072-6643\/17\/17\/2780<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crossover trial in 21 college students found that short-term supplementation with paprika xanthophylls (PXs) improved exercise efficiency and reduced heart rate during both incremental and constant load tests. While no significant between-group differences were seen in cognition overall, PX intake enhanced performance in the Trail Making Test-B and Stroop interference tasks. These findings suggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}