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The Silenced Scientist: The Cure For Alzheimer's Already Exists?! Doctors Are Trapped In A Broken System! The Link Between Oral Infection & Cancer!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

April 14, 2025

What if the cure for Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and erectile dysfunction already exists? Dr. Nathan Bryan breaks the silence on the missing molecule that could reverse disease. Dr. Nathan Bryan is a renowned nitric oxide biochemist, entrepreneur, and bestselling author.

Speakers Nathan Bryan, Steven Bartlett

TopicsBusinessSociety & Culture

Nathan Bryan (0:00)

I'm absolutely convinced this will eradicate and cure Alzheimer's.

Steven Bartlett (0:03)

Really?

Nathan Bryan (0:03)

The data don't lie. And I'm a data guy. And the future of medicine and health care around the globe is going to be dependent upon this.

SPEAKER_3 (0:10)

Dr. Nathan Bryan is the biochemist whose cutting-edge research suggests how one crucial molecule can impact our health, brain function, and longevity. That molecule is nitric oxide.

Nathan Bryan (0:20)

Nitric oxide is a signaling molecule in the human body, which regulates things like blood flow and oxygen delivery. And the loss of nitric oxide production is the earliest event in the onset of the progression of age-related chronic disease. So things like erectile dysfunction, diabetes, Alzheimer's, high blood pressure, which is the number one driver of cardiovascular disease, which is the number one killer of men and women worldwide. And 50% of the patients that are treated with prescription medication don't respond with better blood pressure because they aren't targeted toward nitric oxide. But most people have never heard of this. They don't know that if you can't walk up a flight of steps or exercise moderately for 15, 20 minutes, then you're nitric oxide deficient. They don't know that most toothpaste and mouthwash is killing the oral microbiome that's partly responsible for production of nitric oxide. But no one is interested in curing human disease because medicine is a business. And the epiphany for me came because my dad had a car accident, and he developed these non-healing wounds. And I saw the failure of the standard of care to treat dad's wounds. And so I just thought that there had to be a better way. And simply by giving nitric oxide, I've healed this wound within six months.

Steven Bartlett (1:20)

That's crazy. So how do I improve my nitric oxide levels?

Nathan Bryan (1:24)

It's what you shouldn't be doing. And we'll cover those step by step. Number one, you have to avoid...

Steven Bartlett (1:32)

Dr. Nathan Bryan, you have committed much of your life to writing about and educating people on a subject that I know absolutely nothing about. But from doing the research for today, I'm pretty shocked that I don't know more about this subject. So for those people who have just clicked to listen to this conversation, can you tell them the mission you're on and why it's so important?

Nathan Bryan (1:55)

Yeah, well, thanks so much for having this conversation with me. I think that illustrates the problem, right? Someone as informed as you don't know anything or never heard of nitric oxide.

Steven Bartlett (2:02)

So it's important for us to just make a distinction between like nitric gas that people inhale and that if you played like some of those racing car games, you press a button and the car goes really fast.

Nathan Bryan (2:15)

Well, that's nitrous.

Steven Bartlett (2:16)

Nitrous, yeah. These are two separate things.

Nathan Bryan (2:19)

Yeah, very good point. So this is not nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is, I mean, in medicine, it's a dental anesthetic, right? It's a gas. It's called laughing gas. That's N2O. That's the chemical formula. What we're talking about is nitric oxide or NO, one nitrogen, one oxygen. But yeah, they sound very similar, but they're completely different. This molecule is foundational for human health and longevity. So nitric oxide is a gas. It's a naturally produced molecule. It's a signaling molecule in the human body.

And so it regulates things like blood flow and oxygen delivery. And it mobilizes our own stem cells to help us recover and repair and replace dysfunctional cells. It improves energy production inside the cell. And it regulates blood flow. When we begin to exercise, if we want to recall memory, that's dependent upon adequate blood flow to the organs. If we're intimately involved in sexual activity and dilation of the sex organs for sexual function. So what we're finding is that the older we get, the less nitric oxide we naturally produced. And now today, that's recognized as the earliest event in the onset and progression of age-related chronic disease. So my mission is to inform and educate the global population on how important, number one, what nitric oxide is, how it's produced in the human body, what goes wrong in people that can't make it, and then perhaps most importantly, how do we prevent that age-related decline in nitric oxide production so everybody can be empowered to take control of their own health and prevent age-related disease? And that's what the science tells us, but as you illustrated, most people have never heard of this.

Steven Bartlett (3:56)

I mean, this graph, which I'll put on the screen for anyone watching, kind of illustrates what you're talking about, and quite notably, this decline seems to start when you're 30 years old, which is how old I am right now.

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