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How Much Nitric Oxide Does Your Body Need?

23 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube health clip (Anne Truong MD) answering how much nitric oxide/nitrate the body needs. The speaker recommends about 300–400 mg of nitrate per day (≈4 mg/kg/day), states that consuming this amount can lower blood pressure, and lists high-nitrate vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, celery, lettuce, spinach, kale). The speaker also claims most people can’t reach this intake from typical servings and that organic vegetables have less nitric oxide than non-organic.

Questions this video answers

About 300 to 400 milligrams of nitrate per day.

Approximately 4 milligrams per kilogram per day.

It will lower your blood pressure.

Broccoli, cabbage, celery, lettuce, spinach, and kale.

Organic vegetables have less nitric oxide than non-organic vegetables.

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Well, how much nitric oxide do you need in a day? You should be getting about 300 to 400 milligrams of nitrate. Remember, nitrate come from your mouth. Your mouth formed nitrate to nitrate, so that equals approximately 4 milligrams per kilograms a day. And taking nitric oxide in that amount will actually lower your blood pressure. And a lot of the nitric oxide come from broccoli, cabbage, celery, lettuce, spinach, kale. Unfortunately, most of us can't get enough to meet our daily needs because we're going to have to eat large servings of those vegetables that I just mentioned. And interestingly, organic vegetables have less nitric oxide than non organic vegetables.