Good article here by someone whose opinions I respect a lot. I know a lot of you guys like your No-Xplode and stuff, but read this article anyway. Especially the 2nd yellow section.
Does Nitric Oxide (NO) Supplements work? - Exercise Biology
Bottom line:
If you have cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, burn injury and such, nitric oxide supplementation can increase blood flow.
For healthy individuals , Nitric oxide supplements do not increase blood flow to the muscle or protein synthesis as claimed by NO supplements
Reading down into the comments, a good response to someone touting the "feeling" he gets from No-Xplode:
The effects you are seeing is just a stimulant effect due to the increase in Epinephrine and Norepinephrine. You can get that effect and even more with other products which has NO arginine in it whatsoever.
Just take a look at the NO explode ingredient list and you will see a lot of ingredients which does this like Tyrosine, Taurine,herbal stuff and such. And who knows what goes in their “proprietary blend”.
Here is a cheap stimulant: L-Tyrosine+caffeine+ sugar. Tyrosine is the precursor for adrenaline. If that doesn’t help, you can buy straight ephedrine. If you a really hardcore, you can snort ammonia like those powerlifters. All these you can buy for the fraction of the price of NO explode.
The specific claims of NO like increasing blood flow to the muscles thereby increasing o2 transport, recovery,protein synthesis and such doesn’t exist. The stimulant effects you see and experience has nothing to do with arginine.
Does Nitric Oxide (NO) Supplements work? - Exercise Biology
Bottom line:
If you have cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, burn injury and such, nitric oxide supplementation can increase blood flow.
For healthy individuals , Nitric oxide supplements do not increase blood flow to the muscle or protein synthesis as claimed by NO supplements
Reading down into the comments, a good response to someone touting the "feeling" he gets from No-Xplode:
The effects you are seeing is just a stimulant effect due to the increase in Epinephrine and Norepinephrine. You can get that effect and even more with other products which has NO arginine in it whatsoever.
Just take a look at the NO explode ingredient list and you will see a lot of ingredients which does this like Tyrosine, Taurine,herbal stuff and such. And who knows what goes in their “proprietary blend”.
Here is a cheap stimulant: L-Tyrosine+caffeine+ sugar. Tyrosine is the precursor for adrenaline. If that doesn’t help, you can buy straight ephedrine. If you a really hardcore, you can snort ammonia like those powerlifters. All these you can buy for the fraction of the price of NO explode.
The specific claims of NO like increasing blood flow to the muscles thereby increasing o2 transport, recovery,protein synthesis and such doesn’t exist. The stimulant effects you see and experience has nothing to do with arginine.
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