If you saw today's guest walking down the street, you might think retired grandfather, an industrial scientist, maybe a professor, but here's what you wouldn't guess.

He once made illegal pipe bombs in his basement and then discovered the molecule that powers certain other things that instead of taking down buildings, it's responsible for a certain type of

erection, shall we say. Biagra, he won the Nobel Prize and he rewrote medical textbooks. What's so

wonderful about this man, Lou Ignarro, he's written a book called Dr. No. It's about a magical

molecule that's in your blood right now and may be deficient in some of the listeners and we'll

talk about ways we can improve our life. So today's episode might save your life. It may make your

life better and it might improve your sex life. Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Liu Ignaro. How are you

today, sir? Fine. Great. Thanks, Brian. It's such a pleasure to be here.

It's really wonderful. I love this book. It's incredible. It really teaches you not exactly, you know, how to win a Nobel Prize, kind of the antidote to my book. You know, if my book and your book come together, it's like, Anteamatter, you know, losing the Nobel Prize. yours is winning the Nobel Prize,

but it tells you what it's like,

what it feels like,

to have the curiosity that, losing the Nobel Prize. Yours is winning the Nobel Prize. But it tells you what it's like,

what it feels like to have the curiosity that unintentionally took you all the way to Stockholm.

So I want to ask you the first question. You share something delightful with Alfred Nobel,

the father of the most famous prize on earth. I would say more people respect the Nobel Prize, especially the Peace Prize, but I actually am not as impressed by some of the Peace Prize

winners as I am by you and other scientists. What binds you to Alfred Nobel? Talk about what the two of

you have in common, besides the prize that is upon immensely named after him.

Well, I think the thing that we have both in common is that, you know, he was noted for many things.

He had 175 patents, I think.

One of them was for dynamite because he used nitroglycerin as the active explosive in dynamite, which made nitroglycerin

actually a very safe explosive to use. And I never used nitroglycerin in terms of an explosive,

but when I was young, I started to use ordinary gunpowder to make explosives. And for the first

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