By Dr. Mercola
By Dr. Mercola
Nitric oxide (NO) is a soluble gas stored in the endothelium lining your blood vessels. NO has many exceptional health benefits, but there’s a great deal of confusion about how it’s produced in your body. While your body does produce NO naturally inside your endothelial cells from the amino acid L-arginine, the most significant source is actually dietary nitrates, found in fresh vegetables, which gut bacteria then convert into nitrite and then to NO, bypassing the classical L-arginine pathway.1
Research also suggests bacterially-derived nitrites play an important if not overriding role in NO homeostasis.2 As …read more
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