Nitric oxide (NO) deficiency is the earliest event driving chronic disease, linked to cardiovascular disease, erectile dysfunction, dementia, and diabetes. Insulin requires NO to function, so diabetes may be a symptom of NO deficiency. A 2011 study confirmed NO's role in insulin-mediated glucose clearance.
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Perhaps there's people listening that are like, what is nitric oxide? Why should I focus so singularly on this?
Here's what the science tells us is that when you lose the ability to produce nitric oxide, that's now recognized as the earliest event in the onset and progression of chronic disease. Things like cardiovascular disease, which remains the number one killer of men and women worldwide. It's the root cause of what we call erectile dysfunction or sexual dysfunction in both men and women. Loss of nitric oxide is what leads to the onset of dementia and Alzheimer's. Nitric oxide deficiency is a symptom of— or diabetes is a symptom of nitric oxide deficiency because we published in 2011 that nitric oxide is required for insulin to do its job and for to clear glucose from the circulation.