One of the key things to consider when cycling is getting nutrients and oxygen to your muscles. Without this oxygen and nutrition, your body becomes vulnerable to fatigue and inefficient recovery.

Nitric Oxide is the natural performance booster that strengthens your heart, lungs, and nerves, along with every cell in your body. It also allows you to prolong your exercise, and prolonged exercise increases NO levels in your body. It’s a virtuous cycle that can lead to improved athletic performance and better health.

For the cyclist seeking enhance performance, endurance and strength, as well as faster recovery, the availability of Nitric Oxide in the body is critically important. As any endurance athlete can tell you, a mountain bike race or road race or other long-distance event becomes a competition between body parts over demand for the blood supply. The skin wants the blood circulating to dissipate heat, but the muscles are screaming for the oxygen and nutrients that the blood carries. Meanwhile, the stomach needs blood to digest food and make those nutrients available in the first place. It’s not hard to see how Nitric Oxide, with its ability to increase circulation, would be critical to athletic performance.

Nitric Oxide is a short-lived, gaseous molecule that is produced in your cells. Once released into the bloodstream, it signals the body to perform certain functions such as vasodilatation opening up the blood vessels and capillaries to increase blood flow and deliver oxygen and critical nutrients throughout your body at the time it needs them most.

But as additional research is beginning to show us, NO doesn’t stop with cardiovascular benefits. It now appears that Nitric Oxide is the “master signaling molecule” throughout the body and that maintaining sufficient levels through exercise and nutrition not only improves cardiovascular condition but also optimizes the function of every body system; this leads to superior athletic results and greater wellness, quality of life, and even longevity.

Nobel Laureate in Medicine Dr. Louis Ignarro and Naturopathic Physician Dr. Andrew Myers have written a new book about about supplementation for athletic performance:

Health Is Wealth: Performance Nutrition for the Competitive Edge

And read about Nitric Oxide Supplements in the USA and in Europe.