This chemical compound is gaining wide recognition for Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Fetal Distress Syndrome, Alzheimer's, memory, male pattern baldness, coronary heart conditions, just to name a few. It is being considered now to be one of the most important neurotransmitters and it is being addressed as to its crucial role in how the brain learns and remembers. It, by definition, is really not a neurotransmitter, but it is emerging as an important agent, for a host of brain processes, especially storing long term memory. It is the ability of the brain neurons in the cortex as well as the central nervous system to disconnect from one another and reconnect to a different neuron. The more neuroplastic the being, the easier they learn, accept, and adapt to new behavior and performance skills.
Children are extremely neuroplastic.
As we mature past 25 years old, we become more hard wired. Nitric oxide causes the neurons to become extremely mobile and plastic, hence affecting behavior, memory, learning, and ultimately, reality. If we relax the survival centers and cause them to become more flexible, we, in a sense, are less emotional, less attached to our past, less threatened. That is the hard wiring of survival. Red wine interacts with the digestive enzymes that create this gas, nitric oxide.