What exactly is Active Nitric Oxide?

The NNOXX platform is an active nitric oxide measurement tool — a wearable and a companion mobile app to help trainers and athletes measure the body's production of active nitric oxide (NO). Sounds great, right? But what exactly does all that mean? Let's dig into the science.

It’s the body’s natural regulator for oxygen delivery to blood and muscle tissue.

We all know the roles of oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) in the human body. But less well known is the role of Active Nitric Oxide (NO).

Active nitric oxide refers to the biologically active form of nitric oxide, a molecule with a crucial role in the cardiovascular system. It acts as a vasodilator, meaning it relaxes the smooth muscle in the walls of blood vessels, causing them to widen, increasing blood flow.

This process can help improve circulation and increase the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the body's cells and tissues — particularly during exercise.

For athletes, more NO can mean better performance.

Active nitric oxide levels in the blood increase during physical activity, which helps to deliver more blood, oxygen, and nutrients to the exercising muscles. In turn, this can help improve endurance , increase strength, and reduce fatigue and metabolic stress.

Until NNOXX, however, there’s been no way to monitor active nitric oxide. Now, trainers and athletes can use NNOXX to measure and calibrate production of active nitric oxide during exercise — something previously impossible in real time.

For trainers, NNOXX means better insight.

Personal trainers may use measurements of active nitric oxide as a training tool to monitor their clients' progress and make adjustments to their training programs.

Using NNOXX, trainers can measure if their clients' bodies are producing enough active nitric oxide to improve blood flow and deliver oxygen and nutrients to the muscles. If active nitric oxide levels are low, the trainer may consider adjustments to their workouts. Until now, these adjustments were elusive at best, as there was no way to measure NO.

Only NNOXX helps trainers track and advise during workouts, to help clients achieve peak performance.

Isn’t NNOXX just a souped up oximeter?

No.

While an oximeter can provide an indirect measure of nitric oxide's impact on the blood by measuring the oxygen saturation level, it can’t measure nitric oxide directly. Plus, interpretation of the such results would be nearly irrelevant, or even impossible, even in a lab setting.

NNOXX instead measures active nitric oxide as you exercise, rendering a single data measurement (“personal nitric oxide”, or PNO) athletes and trainers can monitor in the moment. This allows for on the fly calibration of workouts, using NNOXX’s mobile dashboard.

In short, oximeters aren’t capable of measuring what NNOXX can; they’re completely different tools.

Notices:

  • NNOXX One and Wearable are not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose or monitor any disease or medical condition.
  • Please consult a doctor before using NNOXX if you have any medical conditions.
  • These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.