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Nitric Oxide and Functional Health - with Dr. Nathan Bryan | The Empowering Neurologist EP. 167

The Empowering Neurologist Podcast

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The Connection Between Mouthwash and High Blood Pressure

200 million Americans use mouthwash every day. Good oral health means nurturing that the oral bacteria to a significant degree, not killing 99% of germs which television commercials tell us that's what we should be doing. Alzheimer's is really fundamentally metabolic. It's an insulin resistance, basically in the brain. Insulin requires nitric oxide. We can't have adequate amounts of nitric oxide if we don't have good oral health. And so these types of drugs and their mechanism of action aren't designed to restore the oral flora. They're hitting other pathways that may be- that may not be the cause of underlying hypertension.

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