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kmud-181019-medical-misinformation — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-181019-medical-misinformation. The excerpt begins at 27:43 and runs for 1 minute 6 seconds.

For example, women with pulmonary arterial hypertension, impairing their circulation, creating heart stress, the blood vessels were failing to open. And so they said, "Nitric oxide opens blood vessels. Let's have them breathe nitric oxide." But one of the functions of interfering with oxidative metabolism is that that causes cells to turn on collagen production. And breathing nitric oxide creates fibrosis of the lungs. And I've known people, older women, who were being given Viagra because of that mystique of nitric oxide in the lungs.