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Nitrate and exercise with Dr Andrew Coggan

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The Role of Nitrate in Heart Failure

The half-life of nitrate is on the order of five to seven hours. Only about 5% of what you ingest as nitrate is ultimately converted to nitrite, and therefore potentially could make its way into nitric oxide. The pharmacokinetics of nitrate have been studied in healthy, younger humans dating back to the 1980s or so,. because of the concerns that it was a potential carcinogen.

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