Why your energy and vitality are declining, and how ancient civilizations solved it without pills or prescriptions.
Publishing in two weeksThe premise
Sixteen civilizations found the same molecule. None of them knew what it was.
Egyptian foremen paid in silver for garlic. Greek Olympians were crowned in celery. Persian physicians prescribed pomegranate for what they called hardening vessels. Tibetan monks hummed. Venetian merchants ate rocket at sea. Each tradition was dismissed as folklore.
Then in 1998, Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that nitric oxide is a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system. It relaxes blood vessels, lowers blood pressure and moves oxygen. And it is exactly what every one of those traditions was quietly switching on.
This book is the map: 16 protocols, each one traced from the culture that found it to the peer-reviewed research that explains it, and each one written to be used tomorrow morning.
The Ebers Papyrus lists garlic in 22 remedies, prescribed for circulation and for strengthening the heart.
Victors at the Nemean Games are crowned with wild celery. Historians read it as symbolism for the next 2,400 years.
Yogic practitioners document that nasal breathing calms and mouth breathing agitates. They have no laboratory, only generations of observation.
Persian physicians prescribe pomegranate for hardening vessels. The dose they land on is one fruit daily.
The Nobel Prize. Nitric oxide is identified as the molecule controlling the cardiovascular system. The mechanism behind every entry above finally has a name.
The University of Exeter shows beetroot juice cuts the oxygen cost of exercise. By 2012 nutritionists are calling London the beetroot Olympics.
Edinburgh finds that UVA on skin releases stored nitric oxide and drops blood pressure, entirely independently of vitamin D.
The research is published, the mechanism is understood, and almost none of it has reached your appointment.
What is inside
Sixteen protocols
Read in any order. Each chapter stands alone: history, mechanism, evidence, protocol.
Beetroot
Eastern Europe · Borscht to podium
Dietary nitrate, converted by the bacteria on your tongue.
Nasal breathing
Yogic India · 400 BCE
Your sinuses are a nitric oxide factory. Mouth breathing delivers none.
Arugula
Renaissance Venice · 1447
The densest dietary nitrate on the shelf, for the price of a coffee.
Cacao
Mesoamerica · 600 BCE
Epicatechin tells the vessel lining to release nitric oxide. Mayan healers called it opening the heart.
Humming
Rongbuk Monastery · 16,340 ft
Vibration moves the gas out of the sinuses. Swedish researchers measured a 15-fold jump.
Wild greens
Crete · Shepherds at 80
Fifty-five wild species, eaten daily, at up to ten times the nitrate of supermarket produce.
Pomegranate
Persia · 150 BCE
Does not make nitric oxide. Protects the nitric oxide you already made.
Garlic
Giza · 1550 BCE
Crush it, then wait. Cook it too soon and you destroy the compound you came for.
Sunlight
Egypt and Greece · Solar temples
Your skin stores nitrite at ten times blood levels. UVA lets it go.
The oral microbiome
Ayurveda · 3,000 years of scraping
The bacteria antiseptic mouthwash kills are the ones doing the conversion.
Watermelon
Nile Valley · 3500 BCE
Citrulline skips the liver. The white rind is the part worth keeping.
Celery
Nemean Games · 520 BCE
Nitrate, plus phthalides investigated for relaxing vessel walls. The wreath was not decoration.
Chia
Aztec relay runners · 1570s
Fibre and plant omega-3s. The vascular benefit is real, the nitric oxide link is indirect.
Moringa
Ayurvedic India · 2000 BCE
Called the plant that pierces disease. Nutritionally dense, though not the most direct route.
Maca
JunÃn plateau · 14,232 ft
Grown where little else survives. Traditional use is strong, the mechanism is still thin.
Fermented tea
Shan highlands · 12th century
Polyphenols that help the vessel lining make its own. A monsoon accident, kept for 800 years.
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