[Answered]: Please give a response to this post: This week I…

Please give a response to this post: This week I have to admit that I know little about nitric oxide and cardiovascular disease, so this entire assignment was an interesting topic to read about. I have come to understand that nitric oxide regulates blood flow and prevents the adhesion of blood components to the vascular wall, which is very important for overall cardiovascular health and I already understood that preventing plaque build up in arteries and veins is important cardiovascular health prevention. So, picking something I didn’t know about previously about nitric oxide was easy to do. I think the most surprising thing for me was learning the role of vitamin D in conjunction with L-arginine and L-citrulline in aiding the production of NO and therefore reducing oxidative stress. Limiting oxidative stress also means increasing antioxidants in the body and for me this is more associated with issues pertaining to cancer rather than cardiovascular health. The importance of NO in the cardiovascular system is an interesting topic to learn about. Vitamin D is not something that I have heard widely associated with the cardiovascular system. Most of the talk around this vitamin has to do with mood stabilization, depression, obesity, and osteoporosis. As someone who suffers from vitamin D deficiency, the correlation between cardiovascular health and vitamin D is eye-opening. I feel like this should be more widely discussed and more commonly known.