Arginine

“Oh yeah. And there's like, so the beetroot juice, beetroot extract, and then there's the citrulline, arginine. Um, so I'd heard of the beetroot juice and, and, you know, the, these nitric oxide”

“you make you cognitively more sharp as well. It will. Yeah. You, you, I don't like it. Now we're talking beetroot juice or we're talking citrulline and arginine. You're going to, you're going to have a same answer for basically all the above. There will be noticeable effects. There are differences between all three of those.”

“If you were to take, literally beetroot juice and concentrate it into like a three ounce shot, you could see the same stuff here. Most of the time with like citrulline and arginine though, you're getting really high concentrations. I don't know typical dosage of those off the top of my head, to be honest. Um, but what you're going to normally see there is a very pronounced stimulant effect.”

“Like you're going to see that right now. You will see, if you go to the gym and you take any of those forms, particularly like the arginines have fallen out of favor. Like they're not as popular anymore for a host of reasons.”

“Now you said arginine has fallen out of favor. Why? Why is that? Okay, so like, you're probably pretty aware of nitric oxide metabolism. You can't just consume nitric oxide, nitrite, nitrate, like immediately, like you're toast, right? So then the argument is, oh, can we go back up the chain? Like, can we go up to arginine? Can we go back up the thing? So the first stop on that train was arginine.”

“Okay, got it. Yeah, the arginine is used for viral replication. And yeah, that was a kind of an interesting, I mean, I've never tried, but I was reading a little bit about the cold sore thing. I guess if someone has herpes, cold sores or whatever, that might flare them up or something.”