I have been supplementing with it for a while, started taking more in the last few weeks. Was taking 3 1800mg capsules a day.
Now I am taking 6 on non-lifting days and 11 on lifting days ( regular 6 plus 5 before lifting.)
I just calculated that tonight and saw that on regular days about 10 grams and workout days it amounts to almost 20 grams . . .
Do I have anything to worry about, health-wise?
Or am I wasting my money by taking soo much?
How much do you take?
I bought powder L-ARginine and it tastes god awful so I don’t take it often. But more then 15 grams at once I get diarrhea.
Why are you taking it?
[quote]itsthetimman wrote:
Why are you taking it?[/quote]
Blood vessel health and for the Nitric Oxide boost.
I tried some of the commercial Nitric Oxide boosters like BSN NO-Xplode, but had some reactions to the other ingredients.
Another board I read said you could get nearly the same results with L-arginine and caffeine an hour before lifting. This seems to be true.
see also this link on L-arginine:
www.trulyhuge.com/L-Arginine.html
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After I posted I GOOGLED! (should have done that before!)
3-5 grams should be enough to pump you up for a few hours. Anymore, will make you feel like crap (cramping, bloating, nausea).
DJ
Just slowly bump up doses till you react, then take that.
A buddy of mine pops arginine pills like candy as he’s convinced that it will make his crank bigger. He isn’t dead yet so I’d say you are pretty safe.
Thanks everybody.