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How Low Nitric Oxide Drives Heart Disease, Poor Sexual Health, and Chronic Inflammation with Nathan S. Bryan, Ph.D.

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The Role of Proton Pump Inhibitors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Events

Proton pump inhibitors are a class of drugs that are broadly classified as antacids. They're FDA approved for the acute treatment of gastroethalrysofidseal reflux disease. When you suppress stomach acid production, you can't break down proteins into amino acids. This is the basis of all autoimmune disease because we don't know what's self versus non self. The other important discovery was that they inhibit an enzyme called DDAH.

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