In an effort to really play up the performance enhancing effects of plants, James mentions a study which demonstrated that beetroot juice can improve your bench press by 19%. [36] There are a few things to unpack here. The first is that the film actually shows the wrong citation. The citation given by the film is a review in the JISSN which cites the study that James is referring to. After I hunted down this reference in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, I realized that it was drastically misrepresented (surprise surprise). If beetroot juice could boost your bench by 19%, that means my piddly 386 lb bench press at USA Powerlifting Nationals could have been a massive 459 lb bench press, which would have thrust me from 12th place in the 105 kg class into the top 6 and given me the 5th best bench press in the entire country at that weight class. Alas, this is not what the study actually shows.