Have any of you had any experience with NO2? My weight lifting friends swear by it. I'm a little anxious about trying it.
NO2 is a hemodialator from MRI. Its supposed to open the blood vessels, thereby increasing circulation, healing, etc. According to my weight lifting friends (and the little book I bought) NO2 is the best thing to come along in a long time.
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I went looking to see what we're talking about. What they're taking isn't nitrous oxide, and they're not inhaling it. They're actually ingesting arginine alpha-ketoglutarate and arginine-ketoisocaproate in 3000 mg capsules, which are supposed to cause the body to increase its own production of nitric oxide.
Note that it's nitrIC oxide (NO), not nitrOUS oxide (NO2), that's being produced in the body. Why the manufacturer called it NO2 is puzzling.
I have no idea whether this stuff actually works, or whether you really want it to work if it does. The discussion just seemed to be going off in a weird direction with people inhaling laughing gas before swimming (boy wouldn't THAT be interesting), so I thought I'd bring it back to the actual supplement in question.
I went looking to see what we're talking about. What they're taking isn't nitrous oxide, and they're not inhaling it. They're actually ingesting arginine alpha-ketoglutarate and arginine-ketoisocaproate in 3000 mg capsules, which are supposed to cause the body to increase its own production of nitric oxide.
Note that it's nitrIC oxide (NO), not nitrOUS oxide (NO2), that's being produced in the body. Why the manufacturer called it NO2 is puzzling.
I have no idea whether this stuff actually works, or whether you really want it to work if it does. The discussion just seemed to be going off in a weird direction with people inhaling laughing gas before swimming (boy wouldn't THAT be interesting), so I thought I'd bring it back to the actual supplement in question.
