how effective is Arginine?

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How effective is L-arginine for building muscle and gaining strength?

I have done a bit of research and found out that it's an essential amino acid that in larger doses stimulates the pitituary gland and promotes the release of growth hormone. Does anyone have any experience with this stuff? If so, is it worth buying and using?

Any info is appreciated. (Also, I already searched the forums and found nothing...strange but it turned up no results). Thanks in advance.
 
Not very effective at all... A few years back when it was first being researched I tried up to 10g a day, and nothing. Arginine is the primary ingredient in NO2 btw.
 
NO2 eh? i have heard about big-time body builders trying to keep a 'positive nitrogen balance' but honestly I have no clue what that means or how it promotes growth. sounds arginine and NO2 are out of my league...i'm not trying to become mr. olympia or anything. THanks for the help.
 
NO2 doesn't have anything to do with nitrogen balance. its just a hemo-dilator. makes muscles swell up so you look more buff than you really are...then it wears off in 60-90 minutes.

big whoop.
 
L-arginine

I have had great success with a product called Proargi9 plus. It took about a week of using it before I started to notice. It is a vaso dialator which greatly increases blood flow to your muscles. L-arginine can be used to stimulate your own growth hormone. GH is produced when you do intense physical activity. It can also be produced at night. The night time protocol is a little more complicated as you have to take 10 grams on a totally empty stomach within a half hour of falling asleep. I have noticed that my energy is up big time which makes for much more intense workouts.
 
Speaker: Jill Kanaley, PhD. Dept of Exercise Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244

Title: Oral Arginine Supplements: Should we or shouldn't we?

Level 3.

Abstract: In attempts to promote gains in muscle mass and strength gains, numerous training protocols and supplements have been tested. Further, muscle enhancement occurs in conjunction with the GH/IGF axes, thus many believe that the increases in GH concentrations seen with exercise promote muscle growth and strength gains. It is also known that intravenous arginine infusion increases basal GH secretion, but controversy exists on the combined effects of arginine and exercise in stimulating the GH release. In addition, complicating the studies on arginine and exercise is that the route of administration may be important. One study using intravenous arginine found an additive GH response with arginine+exercise, while several studies using oral arginine have reported that arginine+exercise did not enhance the GH response. Is it possible that arginine may enhance protein synthesis independent of GH or really enhances metabolism in ways that have not been measured? This presentation will focus on the research of the influence of oral arginine ingestion on GH release and other possible functions that oral arginine may be having. Further this seminar will examine the acute responses vs. the chronic responses to arginine ingestion.
 
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