The Most Important Molecule for Health You Have Never Heard Of: Nitric Oxide with Dr. Louis Ignarro

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The Most Important Molecule for Health You Have Never Heard Of: Nitric Oxide | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Thrive Market, and Beekeeper’s Naturals What if I told you one single thing could work as an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, neurotransmitter, and vasodilator and that it helps promote memory and learning, increase arousal in both men and women, protect against sun damage and skin cancer, and regulate digestive enzymes and hormones? You’d want some of that, wouldn’t you? Well, nitric oxide is capable of all of this and more. Our bodies naturally produce this molecule but, due to lifestyle factors, some of us make more than others. Luckily for us, there are many things we can do to increase our nitric oxide levels and reap the health benefits. Today I’m honored to sit down and talk with the man who actually discovered nitric oxide, Dr. Louis Ignarro. Dr. Ignarro is a medical research scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his breakthrough discovery of nitric oxide and how it positively impacts health and longevity. His groundbreaking research on nitric oxide paved the way for—among other innovations—Viagra. He is an award-winning Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has his Ph.D. in Pharmacology with over 35 years of experience teaching. This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Thrive Market, and Beekeeper’s Naturals. Right now, BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off their CogniBiotics, a brain and mood-enhancing probiotic that contains specifically chosen strains with a high level of research supporting mental health and performance. Just go to cognibiotics.com/hyman and use code hyman10 at checkout. Thrive is offering all Doctor's Farmacy listeners an amazing deal. You will receive an extra 25% off your first purchase and a free gift when you sign up for Thrive Market. Just head over to thrivemarket.com/Hyman. For a limited time, Beekeeper’s Naturals will ship you a free two-week supply of B.Immune Propolis Throat Spray—you just pay $5 dollars for shipping. To take advantage of this amazing deal, just head over to beekeepersnaturals.com/HYMAN. Here are more of the details from our interview: The observation that first got Dr. Ignarro thinking about nitric oxide (6:24) How statin drugs boost nitric oxide (11:28) The link between nitric oxide, inflammation, and antioxidants (14:39) The surprising development of Viagra (16:18) The many beneficial effects of nitric oxide (21:10) How to boost nitric oxide with food and supplements (28:50) How exercise boosts nitric oxide (44:14) Producing nitric oxide with your breath (48:42) Using nitric oxide to treat Covid-19 (54:02) Learn more about Dr. Ignarro and his work at http://www.drignarro.com/. Follow Dr. Ignarro on Facebook @DrIgnarro and on Twitter @DrIgnarro.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.8	Antioxidants can increase nitric oxide.
0:06.4	Why? Because the antioxidants destroy the free radicals that go after nitric oxide to destroy the nitric oxide.
0:15.0	So antioxidants will boost nitric oxide simply by stabilizing the molecule.
0:23.4	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark.
0:25.0	If you've been listening to the podcast for long,
0:27.8	I'm sure you've heard me talk about the gut brain connection.
0:31.2	Now this powerful link means that an imbalance in the gut can cause a huge range of brain symptoms,
0:36.0	including mood imbalances, things like depression, anxiety, which might be a little surprising,
0:41.2	but when you consider that 90% of our happiness hormone, serotonin is made in the gut,
0:48.0	and that our gut microbes can influence the vaguster, which travels all the way up to the brain,
0:53.2	it starts to make sense.
0:55.0	This isn't something we're going to afford to ignore. I mean, one in 12 Americans suffer moderate to severe depression.
1:01.0	That's over 17.3 million people.
1:04.6	And chronic anxiety is experienced by 40 million Americans.
1:08.6	Now anytime I see a patient who has any type of mood issue, I make sure we look at their gut.
1:13.4	There's almost always an issue there, whether it's inflammation from a food sensitivity,
1:17.6	lack of benignential bacteria, or a slow of other factors.
1:20.6	When the gut heals, the severity of the difficult emotional problems can actually get better.
1:27.2	And that's why I'm so excited to find out about Cognitive Biotics from Bio Optimizers.
1:33.0	Cognitive Biotics is a brain and mood enhancing probiotic that contains specifically chosen strains
1:39.2	with a high level of research supporting mental health and performance.
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