Drink this before coffee, before breakfast, before anything. Every morning.
Cayenne contains capsaicin — it is one of the most powerful natural vasodilators known to folk medicine. It forces the blood vessels to open and blood to move. Men in these mountains who did physical work into their seventies and eighties drank something close to this every morning of their lives. They did not have a word for nitric oxide. But they understood that keeping the blood moving was the foundation of everything else.
The apple cider vinegar improves the internal environment that blood moves through. The honey provides the compounds the body uses to produce nitric oxide overnight.
The afternoon handful: Every afternoon — a small handful of raw unsalted pumpkin seeds and a handful of dark leafy greens. Spinach if you have it. These provide the dietary nitrates and the magnesium the body needs for the second half of the nitric oxide cycle. Most men eating a modern diet are depleted in both.
The evening rule: No alcohol. Not even one drink. Alcohol directly suppresses nitric oxide production in the blood vessel walls. One drink undoes most of what the morning tonic and the afternoon handful achieved. Mama was direct about this with every man she worked with.