Nitric Oxide: The Key to Heart Health
Evolution of Medicine Podcast
The Role of Nitric Oxide in Heart Disease
There's a process in ever disease or there's a time in ever disease process becomes irreversible. But if we catch this early on and what we call endothelial dysfunction, we've been shown to completely reverse that. So everything we know about heart attack strokes, cardiovascular disease revolves around the production of nitric oxide. We can't make nitric oxide to become exercise intolerant, develop exercise, or exertional angina. The inflammation in the artery increases, and so you get stiff arteries that are unable to dilate. That causes a schematic heart disease, the plaque that comes unstable, the plaque ruptures, and that's heart attack.
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