No More Heart Disease: Boost Your Body's Natural Wonder Drug, Nitric Oxide, to Prevent--And Even Reverse--Heart Disease and Strokes - Paperback

by Louis Ignarro (Author)

"Have younger arteries by adopting [Dr. Ignarro's] easy plan." --Michael Rozier, MD, coauthor of #1 bestseller You: The Owner's Manual, on the original edition

Now fully revised and updated, this is the classic guide to cardiovascular health from a Nobel prize-winning scientist. NO More Heart Disease shows you how a few simple and brilliant changes--including how you inhale--can help prevent heart disease and strokes and also help maximize the effectiveness of your workouts.

Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.'s discovery of Nitric Oxide--NO--a signaling molecule produced by the body, led to his winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998. His discovery of NO led to numerous improvements in vascular care and an entirely new class of drugs that include Viagra.

NO, which benefits the cardiovascular system in numerous ways, can be tapped effectively without medication. Some extremely simple life changes, including breathing in through one's nose rather than one's mouth, activate Nitric Oxide and its benefits. A vasodilator, NO helps control blood flow to every part of the body. It relaxes and enlarges blood vessels, prevents clots that can trigger strokes and heart attacks, regulates blood pressure and controls the accumulation of plaque in blood vessels. It can boost the effectiveness of statins, and delay the need for them.

NO is an age-proofer for the cardiovascular network, keeping it clean and elastic and helping make exercise more effective. In NO MORE HEART DISEASE, Ignarro lays out a simple non-invasive plan that includes breath training, supplements, foods that are NO-friendly and a targeted exercise program.

Author Biography

LOUIS IGNARRO, Ph.D is a pharmacologist whose discovery of the signaling properties of nitric oxide won him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad, in 1998. He's professor emeritus of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He lives in Los Angeles.