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kmud-151016-current-trends-nitric-oxide — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-151016-current-trends-nitric-oxide. The excerpt begins at 16:16 and runs for 1 minute 16 seconds.

You do increase the flow of blood by relaxing the arterioles. The trouble is that if you increase it beyond a temporary dilation, it's going to start the damaging process of increasing collagen formation and cell multiplication and so on. So you can get a momentary effect from sniffing nitroglycerin, for example. But as a chronic thing or a systemic thing, it's not at all good. In fact, it ages. In a chronic situation, for example, where your intestine is being irritated, irritable bowel syndrome, for example, or just mild digestive problems, you absorb both nitric oxide and endotoxin.