Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-141121-nitric-oxide — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-141121-nitric-oxide. The excerpt begins at 39:31 and runs for 55 seconds.

So you don't recommend taking an L-Arginine supplement? No, I think it's very dangerous. Oh, okay. Now, did you say that Viagra is bad for you because it's made out of this nitric oxide stuff? It inhibits an enzyme that is supposed to inactivate a substance made by the production of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide starts a chain reaction, and Viagra keeps that chain reaction going, and in the process it ends up systemically increasing not only the effect of nitric oxide, but even in some situations the level of nitric oxide.