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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 14:02 and runs for 1 minute 29 seconds.

So, so far as the damaging effects of nitric oxide are concerned, I think there are three species of nitric oxide, and the one I think that's most commonly referenced in PubMed and other scientific literature for its effects, both negative and for the small beneficial effect of its burst, energy burst effect on bacteria, etc., is the inducible nitric oxide synthase. And that's been implicated in causing an increased severity of disease in quite a few different models, one of which was a herpes simplex model and kephalitis, which is a brain inflammation in mice. And then I saw other references as well to chronic viral hepatitis in man, is definitely being aggravated by nitric oxide, and potentially nitric oxide suppression might be a useful treatment for people suffering from chronic hepatitis. What are the most reasonable ways of blocking nitric oxide synthesis in the body, or at least managing its production and providing a buffer to it, so that you can maintain the little nitric oxide that is beneficial whilst keeping in check any excess? The body has its various natural ways of keeping it under control. For example,