Bryan Johnson· Author
Antibacterial mouthwash cut over 60% of exercise’s blood-pressure-lowering effect after 1 hour. And fully canceled it 2 hours post-exercise.
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Antibacterial mouthwash cut over 60% of exercise’s blood-pressure-lowering effect after 1 hour. And fully canceled it 2 hours post-exercise.
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these findings show that nitrate nitrite synthesis by oral commensal bacteria is a key mechanism to induce the vascular response to exercise exercise over the first period of recovery thereby promoting lower blood pressure and greater muscle oxygenation which was abrogated which was abolished when the people had a bacterial rinse
A small randomized placebo-controlled trial finds the blood pressure-lowering effect of exercise was diminished by 61% during the first hour of recovery, and completely abolished 2 hours after exercise when participants were given antibacterial mouthwash.