Supporting the oral microbiome through dietary choices and hygiene practices may help dietary nitrate improve blood pressure and vascular health in aging individuals.

“Protecting your oral microbiome may help dietary nitrate work as a natural ally for blood pressure and vascular health as you age.”

“post exercise hypotension and skeletal muscle oxygenation is regulated by the nitrate reducing activity of oral bacteria”

“imagine if the bacteria in your mouth which are part of this nitrate nitrite nitric oxide system are actually beneficial for you wouldn't that be an interesting part of evolutionary design well that's in fact how it works”