The Importance of Nitric Oxide

The foundation of the For the Young at Heart® program is based on the 1998 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Three American Ph.D. pharmacologists, one also being an M.D., won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the connection between Nitric Oxide gas and the relaxing and widening of blood vessels. (You may have heard of Nitric Oxide as a destructive air pollutant, rather than the beneficial chemical at work every day in the cells of your body.) These scientists discovered that when L-arginine and L-citrul-line, two amino acids, combine with oxygen, Nitric Oxide gas is formed. Nitric Oxide (its chemical name NO) functions as a signal molecule in the cardiovascular system, the nervous system, and in all cells in the body. In the endothelium of the arteries, their innermost layer, the production of NO spreads rapidly through the cells, relaxing the muscles and basically dilating the vessel itself. NO does the work that prescriptions try to do.

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