Benefits of Nitric Oxide for Glaucoma

Nitric Oxide is a molecule that's produced naturally by your body and it's important for many aspects of your health. One of the most important functions of nitric oxide is something called vasodilation. This means that the inner muscles of the blood vessels begin to widen and this increases your circulation. I want to talk about how this can be beneficial for you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS nitric oxide, glaucoma, nitrate, called, eye, reduce, antioxidant, health, circulation, developing, l arginine, aqueous humor, outflow, optic nerve, increasing, risk, free radical, body, glutathione, boosting Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, Dr. Sam here, I'd like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today I want to talk about nitric oxide. This is a molecule that's produced naturally by your body. And it's important for many aspects of your health. One of the most important functions of nitric oxide is something called vasodilation. And this means that the inner muscles of the blood vessels begin to widen and this increases your circulation. And the blood vessels that I want to talk about today are called the micro capillary blood vessels, and they make up over 70% of the circulation in the body. And yet, allopathic medicine very rarely will target or address the health of the micro capillaries. They're really looking at the big arteries and veins only. Well, this is where nitric oxide comes in. Because the production of it has been found to be essential for our health because it improves the blood supply our circulation, and this allows for better nutrient absorption, better oxygenation, better hydration, which reduces inflammation and oxidative stress. In fact, nitric oxide is used to reduce the risk of cardiovascular health, diabetes, erectile dysfunction, and I want to talk about how nitric oxide could benefit your eye health, especially if you've been diagnosed with glaucoma. I'm going to point you to a study that was published in the investigative ophthalmology and visual science journal. And in this particular research study, researchers took a look at nitric oxide and the regulation of the fluid production in the eye. And the technical term is called aqueous humor dynamics. So this means that, you know in the production rate of the aqueous humor humor, there's an exiting of the fluid through these outflow pathways. And some of the famous ones which I've talked about before in other shows the trabecular meshwork and Slim's canal actually make up somewhere between 60 and 90% of the entire outflow of this fluid in the eye. Now, when there is elevated intraocular pressure, there's a blockage in this outflow. And this is a contributing factor to optic nerve damage. So progressive optic nerve damage and loss of retinal ganglion cells, nerve fiber layers that thin in the retina. These are all the kind of the result of the poor circulation in the eye which leads to glaucoma and glaucoma is a silent disease. We don't know that we have it. And of course, their genetic influences on you know, having a higher incidence of developing glaucoma, but also things like head trauma, inflammatory disease, oxidative stress, visual stress, just to name a few reasons why people develop glaucoma. So in this particular study, nitric oxide was reported to have positive effects and being ...