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I get this question a lot, "I keep taking L-arginine, L-citrulline, my nitric oxide doesn't get better, and I'm still deficient in nitric oxide." In my last episode, I talked about how you can measure nitric oxide by using the nitric oxide strip.

But if you keep taking the L-arginine, L citrulline, and you don't see an improvement, that's why we're going to talk about it today, because I don't want you to waste your money and get frustrated, because there are multiple reasns why you will not make nitric oxide by taking L-arginine or L citrullate, and that your diet is the best thing possible.

So stay with me ob this.

We're going to get a little nerdy.

We're going to get into the size of it a little bit, but just stay with me, and I'm going to try to explain to you why taking L-arginine, L-centulline does not increase your nitric oxide.

First of all, is a first pass metabolism in your gut and your liver.

A significant portion of the supplement that you take that has L-arginine, L-citrulline in it get metabolized and it doesn't go to the bloodstream once it go to your stomach and goes to the liver.

So the liver and the gut kind of decrease the amount of bioavailability for even your body to even convert it to nitric oxide.

Now, in order for your body to convert nitric oxide, you need the system called NOS.

NOS means nitric oxide synthase.

What nitric oxide synthase is kind of like an enzyme that has to convert the L-citrulline, L-arginine to nitric oxide.

But if that enzyme is not working well, no matter how much L-arginine, L-citrulline you take, it will not convert it, because that enzyme is not going to make you nitric oxide.

So you can have a gazillion L-arginine, L-citrulline sitting here, the enzyme is not going to convert it to nitric oxide.

And in fact, when you have that much L-arginine, L-citrulline, it will actually become something that is inflammatory.

It will actually decrease blood flow, which is the opposite of what you want to take, and may even harm your erection.

So in most individual, taking L-arginine, you will not make nitric oxide because your enzyme, in what's called is saturated, no longer working well.

That's called the L-arginine paradox, and that the nitric oxide synthase enzyme depends upon many, many factors.

I'm not going to go over and board you, but it depends on a lot of vitamins and co-factors.

That's why most of the time it doesn't work well.

By the time you're 40, 50% of the NOS system is actually not even effective at all too.

So just want you to let you know that by time you're 40, you've lost about 50% the ability to make nitric oxide.

And that if you take too much nitric oxide, it will become inflammatory, and it will actually decrease blood flow as well, too.

So in context, I hope you understand that if your enzyme is not working, then you're not making nitric oxide.

So the best thing is to take it from your diet, and on this slide that I'm showing you, is going to talk about the two systems that I talk about, the NOS system which is on the left side, which it depend upon the enzyme, and then from your diet, because if you take, like arugula or beet and take sunflower seed, it will go to your mouth, and then your bacteria will convert it, and also the gastric acid in your stomach will convert it to nitric oxide.

So you know that your enzyme is going to be deficient 50% of the time.

Try to get your nitric oxide from your diet to increase your nitric oxide, and that's one of the reason why we created the nitric oxide capsule here that has arugula extract and no L-aginine, L-citrulline because it gives you the arugula straight into your system without your NOS enzyme having to convert it.

So it gives you straight your nitric oxide.

I that you need to increase blood flow.

And therefore, if you're taking L-citrulline, L-arginine, and you're not having increase in nitric oxide, that is the reason why, because you're NOS enzyme is not working well, and that you need to supplement it through diet.

And also I talked about in my previous episode, breathing.

Breathing exercises where you breathe into your nose, breathe in for count of four and breathe out for a count of six, will also increase nitric oxide.

Also exercise, such as doing weight training or high intensity interval exercise, will also increase your nitric oxide.

So just simple things like that will go a long way, rather than taking L-citrulline, L-arginine, because it depended upon the enzyme system NOS, which is really not working that well.

Also strategies that I talked about in the past episode, you can check out here where, you know, avoid taking fluoride mouthwash or fluoride toothpaste, and decrease the amount of antacid that you need to take.

So that goes a long way, and I hope that will save you some money in taking the L-arginine, L-citrulline.

Let me know what you think about this.

And I'm hoping just to save you guys some money and make sure that you measure your nitric oxide with the strip here I'm deficient so I take my nitric oxide capsule of arugula extract every day.

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