ofonorow wrote:Dear Owen
I have been following Dr. Pauling therapy with daily dose of 12-24 gr. of Vitamin C and 6 gr. of L-lysine. Additionally I add L-arginine and l-citrulline. Once a day I take 5gr of red beets to produce NO. I also take vitamin D3 /K . Goal of this therapy is to control high blood pressure. Unfortunately after 6 months I have not noticed any reduction in BP making me go back on my BP meds. I am 54, male able to do 40 push-ups and hold 5 minutes plank. I am 5’10, 234 lbs, waist 36. Quit drinking for last 40 days but no measurable difference in weight and BP.
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I feel the same with this guym needing to lower BP, until I read
book by Louis J. Ignarro
-- American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad.
the book, NO More Heart Disease: How Nitric Oxide Can Prevent--Even Reverse--Heart DZ
https://www.amazon.com/More-Heart-Disea ... 0312335822is not so much about heart disease as it is the need for the Nitric oxide in the body
eating foods high in nitrates will drop your Blood pressure
Id skip the arigine and stick to more of the Citrulline, as argine can have other ill effects which citrilline does not
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Food sources of nitrates and nitrites: the physiologic context for potential health benefits[/b]
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/90/1/1/4596750this article explains many perks of a diet rich in nitrates(
think of foods like
arugula
spinach
rhubarb
broccoli
-supplement" garden veggies nature's way as used in the article to give nirtates
even Dr mercola talks about exercises to increase nitric oxide and what NO does to help your body
https://www.mercola.com/calendar/2018/fitness.htmalso, as long as you are doing what Pauling says about intake of vit C, add some garlic to that mix
garlic+vit C will increase NO production about 3x baseline
https://www.peaktestosterone.com/Garlic ... ction.aspxyes, more NO will likely give you boners, if you lack eendothelial dysfunction
I used to get my BP tested daily at work and I had moderately elevated BP, unless I had coffee, then it was just high
till I started having a 5oz of arugula and 1lb broccoli+clove of garlic, 3grams vit C(viamix blender) 1 hour before being tested AND drinking 8ozo coffee
then my BP wouold be lower then normal and well within a healthy range
more than that, the NO increase from eating a low fat, high nitrate diet would make drinking coffee redunant, I had enegy and felt good