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The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

#222 Nitric Oxide, Nitrates and Nitrites in Food with Dr Rupy Aujla

The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

Dr Rupy Aujla

Medicine, Healthy Eating, Improving Health, Food And Lifestyle, 868329, Healthy Recipes, Doctor's Kitchen, Mental Wellbeing, Nutritional Medicine, Lifestyle, Mindset, Dr Rupy, Wellness, Health And Wellbeing, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health Goals

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

You might’ve heard the terms nitrates, nitrites or nitric oxide in different contexts. There have been headlines about the “dangers” of nitrites in food, especially in processed meats like ham or bacon. But there’s also a lot of talk about the benefits of nitric oxide? It’s a very confusing topic, but hopefully after listening to todays podcast you’ll understand everything you need to know about these compounds!


In this podcast, I’ll go through:

  • What nitrates actually are, as well as the terms you might have heard - nitrates, nitrites, nitric oxide and nitrosamines
  • The controversy around these compounds
  • How the body handles them and their impact on health
  • Which foods are the highest in nitrates and why you want to eat them every day


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0:00.0

Doctors Kitchen.

0:03.0

Recipes Health Lifestyle

0:08.0

Welcome to the Doctors Kitchen Podcast,

0:10.0

The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today.

0:18.4

I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine.

0:32.0

Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what

0:36.6

allows you to lead week's podcast. It's slightly different. It is a solo episode and

0:51.4

we are going to be doing a deep dive into nitrogen, nitrates, nitrites, nitroamines, nitric

0:58.8

oxide. These are all terms that are banded around. I hear a lot of people talking about these different elements

1:06.8

with a lot of authority without really trying to explain the background around how we even absorb and obtain these nutrients from plants from

1:18.8

our diet and our body converts it really.

1:22.2

So this is really in response to a lot of people asking me about nitrates

1:27.7

and not actually having a very concise way of answering it.

1:31.9

So we've decided to do a deep dive into nitrate so you can

1:35.7

understand a lot more about these elements that are so so important, the

1:39.7

association with diet, and the highest nitrate containing foods that we should be trying to get into our plates.

1:48.0

At the top of this episode I talk about three core takeaways because I know that these episodes can get quite involved and I

1:54.6

highly recommend you check out the YouTube video with this because I basically

2:00.6

talk through a bunch of different diagrams.

2:03.2

You can still listen to this without the need to watch it on YouTube because I talk through those

2:07.3

diagrams and I think it's quite easy to understand and picture whether you're on the move in the gym or listening to this in the car.

2:16.0

But if you want to see those diagrams then just check us out on YouTube and that's a really

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