Dr. Nathan Bryan
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So when nitric oxide is produced in the body, it's a gas, and typically it has an affinity for metals, and then it binds to that metal. And sometimes it can be released. If we dispose to certain frequencies like infrared light, it'll release that nitric oxide, and that becomes vasoactive. It can dilate blood vessels. The ultraviolet can actually bind.
That energy is much higher, so it can cleave a nitric oxide molecule bound to a thiol, what we call a nitrosothiol. It's a much stronger bond, covalent bond. You need higher energy to release that. But, you know, as we know, it activates vitamin D, the active form of vitamin D. Worse than lack of sunlight is sunscreen.
Because you've got the toxic chemicals in the sunscreen that's completely preventing... Traditional sunscreen. Traditional sunscreens. I stay away from it. My kids, none of us wear sunscreen. Very dangerous.
Look, it lowers blood pressure. If you look at just epidemiological data, people who live in kind of Scandinavia and northern kind of countries or societies have higher blood pressure on average than people who live near the equator. And there are a lot of confounding factors on that. But a predominant hypothesis or theory is that it's because there's less sunlight.
We know through the mechanism of nitric oxide production, we can produce nitric oxide. We can dilate blood vessels to normalize blood pressure.
There's no benefit.
No, I think it gets an A. Again, because it's moderate and it's dependent upon skin type. Yeah. You know, kind of the white, kind of the typical Irish American, you know, that has really light skin, light complexion. compared to a person who makes a lot of melatonin, African-Americans, dark skin. The requirements are completely different. Again, it's the personalization of diet and lifestyle.
Now, that ranks up there. That's pretty high. Would you put that as an S? Well, it depends upon... endogenous systems in the person that's exposed to that light.
But certainly it's the most cost effective and effective thing you can do if you want to do one thing, because it has multiple benefits. Number one, you're getting that 20, 30 minutes of sunlight and that first sunlight a day completely sets, resets your circadian rhythm, right? Because it's that for saying to you, Oh, it's daylight. It's time to wake up. We've been, have our eyes closed all night.
We've been in darkness. Now we're waking up and it completely sets our circadian rhythm.
Because it's fueling at least one of the major pathways, how the body produces nitric oxide, right? So nitrate is found primarily in green leafy vegetables. Then when we consume it, About 90 minutes after we consume that food or that nitrate-rich vegetable, it's concentrated in our salivary glands. Now we're secreting nitrate with the saliva. We have the right bacteria. It's reducing this.
It's doing a two-electron reduction of nitrate to nitrite. Now our saliva is enriched in nitrite, which we can detect with the test strips. And then we swallow our saliva. And that nitrite becomes nitric oxide gas in the lumen of the stomach as long as there's stomach acid production.
But if we're taking antacids, proton pump inhibitors, and there's no stomach acid secretion, we disrupt that entire cycle. And that's the other problem. You know, we may detect nitric oxide in the saliva, but if we're taking an antacid, you're not going to get the nitric oxide that's produced in the lumen of the stomach.
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe even worse. I mean, because they're causing death. I mean, the proton pump inhibitors are causing a 40% higher incidence of heart attack, stroke, and Alzheimer's. This is very clear, indisputable clinical observational data. Because they're shutting down nitric oxide production.
It's leading to an elevation of asymmetric dimethylalarginine, which is then inhibiting the enzyme in the lining of the blood vessel from producing nitric oxide. So this one class of drug shuts down both pathways to produce nitric oxide in the body. And what do we see? Heart attack, stroke, and Alzheimer's.
No, these are like similar to SSRIs and you can't just stop these drugs cold turkey because there's clinical consequences to that. You'll get an overproduction and secretion of stomach acid and life will be miserable.
See, I told you you're dependent upon these, yeah. Yeah. Now, so what I, again, work with your prescribing physician, but the best kind of recipe I found is whatever dose you're taking, cut it in half. And now for 10 days, take that half dose. And then after 10 days, take that half dose every other day. And then do that for 10 days.
So we're slowly titrating down the circulating levels of these PPIs. And then once you get those 20 days, then you can stop. But then, because you need stomach acid to absorb things like B vitamins, iron, zinc, iodine, things you need to make stomach acid on your own, you have to supplement that because your body hasn't been able to absorb that.
I tell people, take apple cider vinegar before a meal. So now you're acidifying the lumen of the stomach. So now you can actually break down the foods you're eating so you don't get reflux. And you've got to figure out what nutrients you're missing.
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