I’ve seen a few threads on here in the past about people having a strong ammonia body odor. I’ve been dealing with this myself for the past few years and NOTHING I did seemed to help including dietary changes; drinking more water; various deodorants, body sprays, soaps, and laundry detergents; and high doses of supplements like chlorophyll and citrulline malate.
About a week ago I started taking 1 gram x2/day of L-citrulline (NOT citrulline malate) and 99% of my body odor is gone. My truck’s AC recently shit the bed so I’ve been sweating A LOT and not a hint of ammonia. At the end of my workouts there is a very slight ammonia smell, but nothing like what I used to experience.
It is an effective ammonia scavenger, which I’d known was important with regards to workouts, but it never happened to occur to me that it would help in this situation. Nice find and great report!
question though… i get the ammonia smell from morning cardio (fasted and with a whey shake before). in my case i assume it’ll get rid of the smell but will it counter-act, or even reduce, the (possible) catabolism that may be taking place?
question though… i get the ammonia smell from morning cardio (fasted and with a whey shake before). in my case i assume it’ll get rid of the smell but will it counter-act, or even reduce, the (possible) catabolism that may be taking place?[/quote]
I don’t think L-citrulline is anti-catabolic (though I haven’t researched it that much), but isn’t that what the whey shake is for?
[quote]EasyRhino wrote:
whereami you’re not a devote low carber are you?
I’ve only noticed the smell after workouts, and more often in cases where I’m on a fairly empty or carbless stomach.[/quote]
I’ve seen other people report that adding carbs back into their diet has helped eliminate the ammonia odor. For me, no matter how many carbs I ate the smell didn’t go away.
question though… i get the ammonia smell from morning cardio (fasted and with a whey shake before). in my case i assume it’ll get rid of the smell but will it counter-act, or even reduce, the (possible) catabolism that may be taking place?[/quote]
I don’t think L-citrulline is anti-catabolic (though I haven’t researched it that much), but isn’t that what the whey shake is for?[/quote]
I just started to add L-citruline to my vitamines and minéral stack about 4 day’s now. I notice my amoniac swet smell was gone.
Can this amino acide realy be responsable for that ? My hight uric acid level pop-up on my last blood test. I’m getting a new blood test in a week. I will see if the level as come down. If so, I will be suplementing with that for life.