Dr. Nathan Bryan
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If you've been on antacids, if you do a micronutrient analysis test, blood test, you're going to find that you're depleted in B vitamin, selenium, chromium, iron. You may be anemic. You don't have any iodine because all this requires stomach acid production.
You know, that's a great question, a question we've been trying to answer, but no, it doesn't appear to be. And here's the thing, when we list things like beets, and there are hundreds of beet products on the market now, which typically aren't providing nitric oxide. But the problem with root vegetables, the problem with green leafy vegetables is the oxalates and the oxalic acids.
So some people that are prone to developing kidney stones may not be able to tolerate things like this. But here's the deal with the straight carnivore diet is that you're not getting the inflammation from the high carbs. And you're not getting the sugar. So what we're doing is we're maintaining optimal endothelial function. That enzyme is functional.
So now we can make nitric oxide on demand in the lining of the blood vessel. And we're less dependent upon the oral microbiome in feeding this pathway through the diet. Because I think most carnivores, if you've made a decision, a conscious decision to eat a carnivore-based diet, at least in my interaction with the people I've met, these people are very health conscious.
They're working out every day. They're getting sunlight. They're getting sunlight. They're drinking good, clean water. And they're doing everything else. So they can get away with that, of elimination of the nitrate. But here's the other thing. If you're making nitric oxide in the body, in the lining of the blood vessels— That nitric oxide is immediately oxidized to nitrate.
So now we have nitrate, an elevation of nitrate circulating in the blood, and it's taken up in the saliva, and we're still secreting nitrate. But the nitrate is not coming from the foods we eat. It's coming from the oxidation of nitric oxide that was produced in the lining of the blood vessel.
Well, look, the body is 80% water and the water hydrates cells that allows for the transport of minerals and oxygen and nutrients. And if we're dehydrated, you know, we become dehydrated at the cellular level, right? And so then we get a buildup of toxins. And so now you've got a lower volume and a higher concentration of toxins. It becomes toxic to the cell.
And hydration and urination is part of detoxification. So we drink water, we have an exchange of solutes, and we urinate it out. If we're dehydrated, obviously we make less urine because the body's trying to preserve what volume it has. So then we get a buildup of toxins.
But the problem is, you know, municipal water supply, which is toxic, you're hydrating, but you're actually poisoning yourself too. And that's why I recommend good clean water, good, you know, well-designed home filtration system, remove the fluorine, the fluoride, the chlorine, the chloramines, the drug metabolites that's found in municipal water.
But it's just a good way to detoxify, to dehydrate the cell or to hydrate the cell and to maintain good health.
I didn't realize I was focused on...
Well, these are a class of drugs called NSAIDs, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. You can get them over the counter. All we have to do is look at the history and the use of these. And the number three killer of men and women worldwide is medication. Prescription medication, over-the-counter medication. NSAIDs cause gastric bleeds that cause gastric ulcers.
Things like acetaminophen, which is Tylenol, can cause liver failure, liver disease, and death from liver failure. So these are very effective anti-inflammatory drugs. But what they're doing is they're masking the symptoms of inflammation without getting to the root cause of the inflammation. Same thing that steroids do. They kind of suppress the inflammatory response and alleviate pain.
But what they don't do is address the root cause of the inflammation. So if your diet is inflammatory, if your lifestyle is inflammatory, if you have infections that are inflammatory, the worst thing you should do is just take an anti-inflammatory drug. Get to the root cause of it because that inflammation is still there. You just don't feel it. And so, again, it's risk benefit.
Certainly, they can provide benefit on alleviating pain in chronically inflamed patients. But the risk, there's also risk there. There's nothing that's without risk. And so you just have to, again, it's personalized.
It's the number one driver of chronic disease and it's the number one thing that completely shuts down nitric oxide production. It is the number one enemy. And it's a national security crisis, right? Because we don't even have enough healthy young kids these days to serve in the military. They can't even pass a physical. So this is a national security issue.
Years ago, 30 years ago, we knew that once you develop diabetes, get what's called advanced glycosylation end products, or AGES, and that's sugar that's stuck to enzymes, hemoglobin, other proteins like the nitric oxide synthase enzyme. completely shuts down nitric oxide production.
And that explained why diabetics have higher blood pressure, they have diabetic retinopathy, they have diabetic neuropathy, and everything that in rectal dysfunction, everything about diabetes shuts down nitric oxide production, explained everything about the clinical presentation of diabetes.
Then the other thing is we're learning now that once you get, if you lose the ability to produce nitric oxide from poor diet, from sedentary lifestyle, that leads to insulin resistance.
Because as I mentioned earlier, when insulin binds to the insulin receptor, it activates intracellular signaling called AKT, PI3 kinase, and AMP kinase, which is the target of metformin, glucophage, the main anti-diabetic drug. And those two proteins, what we call kinases, activate the nitric oxide synthase enzyme. But in diabetics, we know that that enzyme isn't functional.
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