🍆 The Cayenne Circulation Tonic For men who have lost their energy, drive and stamina...
Margaret Cole

Elizabethton, Tennessee | Appalachian Herbalist & Folk Remedy Keeper

www.trueremedywellness.com

Here Is the Circulation Protocol I Mentioned

What mama always recommended for men who were running out of fuel — and why it worked...
The Protocol — three things, every single day without exception:
The morning tonic: Into a mug of warm water — not cold, never cold — stir:
  • Half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper
  • One tablespoon of raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar
  • One teaspoon of raw local honey
  • A squeeze of fresh lemon if you have it
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.

Here is what I need to say honestly.

This protocol is the real thing. It is not complicated and it is not expensive and it works — I have seen it work in this community for years.

But it works on what is circulating and what the body has available. It does not work on the blood vessel wall itself — on the endothelium, which is where nitric oxide is actually produced.

When the endothelium has been damaged or depleted over years of poor circulation, processed food, and stress, the production capacity itself needs to be restored. That is a different problem from simply providing better inputs.

The video below explains what restores production capacity at that level. It is the piece this protocol alone cannot reach.

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