In the fitness and health optimization space, the narrative around nitric oxide is, you know,

train longer, train harder, recover faster, getting everything in the body to where it needs

to go, right? For a long time, we as in, you know, the scientific research community, we thought

that's it. That's the one and only way for nitric oxide to be made in the body.

But in the past 10 and 15 years, more research has emerged and actually shows there's a

secondary pathway known as the nitrate pathway.

The discovery of nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiometabolic system is

considered one of the greatest

accomplishments in cardiovascular medicine and in modern medicine so much so that it won the Nobel

Prize in physiology in 1998. What are the other bodily functions areas that nitric oxide impacts?

Nitric oxide is deeply implicated in nerve perception and sensation in that area of our body,

in the lubrication, the stimulation and arousal response development in neuroplasticity and how

our brain is growing new brain cells or bone formation, the immune response, regulating

inflammation, oxidative stress.

There's so many aspects of our health that are directly or indirectly affected by nitric oxide balance.

I kind of like to refer to it as like the molecule of life.

So we have to support healthy nitric oxide signaling.

Welcome to the Boneco Show dedicated to helping you understand all things related to diet,

lifestyle, bone health, and how you can live and thrive with low bone density and osteoporosis.

I'm your host, Kevin Ellis, certified health coach, health and wellness speaker,

and above all else, your bone coach.

After being diagnosed with osteoporosis in my early 30s,

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