The Dynamite Of Performance
Published: Sun, 10/21/18
For more than 130 years, doctors were prescribing nitroglycerine for chest pain relief without knowledge of why it worked so well!
I’m sure you know, but nitroglycerine is best known for making things go BOOM!
At the time, scientists didn’t know that the nitroglycerine molecule was generating nitric oxide, and it was the nitric oxide that was dilating the blood vessels and supplying oxygen-rich blood to nourish the heart and relieve pain.
In the 1980s, nitric oxide was considered a toxic substance, causing smog.
So when the first article appeared discussing the importance of nitric oxide in the body, the scientific community found it difficult to conceive that a gas so toxic outside of the body played such an important role inside the body.
12 years later… nitric oxide was proclaimed molecule of the year by the journal “Science”
So what does it do for? There are 100,000 miles of blood circulation going on throughout your body. Nitric oxide is the daddy of blood circulation functions.
It is a powerful vasodilator, which means it opens your blood vessels, increasing blood flow and countering the constriction of your vessels caused by a CO2 deficiency.
Nitric oxide has been shown to be important in:
- Helping memory and behaviour by transmitting information between nerve cells in the brain
- Assisting the immune system in fighting off bacteria and defending against tumours
- Regulating blood pressure by dilating arteries
- Reducing inflammation
- Boost testosterone levels
- Improving sleep quality
- Increasing your recognition of scent (i.e. smell)
- Increasing endurance and strength
- Assisting in gastric motility
The answer is super simple....
Best,
Mike Westerdal
CriticalBench.com