nitric oxide Archives | Diet vs Disease Personalized Health, On Demand. Thu, 07 May 2026 17:15:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.dietvsdisease.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-diet-vs.-disease-symbol-full-color-rgb-1000px-w-300ppi-favicon-32x32.png nitric oxide Archives | Diet vs Disease 32 32 L-Arginine Supplementation: Splitting Fact From Fiction https://www.dietvsdisease.org/l-arginine-supplementation/ https://www.dietvsdisease.org/l-arginine-supplementation/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2017 09:53:39 +0000 https://www.dietvsdisease.org/?p=6483 [Last updated 12th June, 2019] L-arginine supplements are popular among athletes. Many believe that L-arginine can increase oxygen delivery to muscles and decrease lactic acid build-up. There are also claims that it can help with a number of health conditions such as blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. This article looks into what L-arginine is, what it does and whether there is evidence to back up these claims. What is L-Arginine and What Does It Do? L-arginine is one form of the amino acid arginine. Arginine is produced in the body. However, under certain conditions, such as in infancy or in times of severe illness, we don’t produce enough arginine. Therefore, it’s classified as a conditionally essential amino acid (1, 2). L-arginine is crucial to many important metabolic processes, including: Image source.  NO acts as a cellular messenger,[Discover More...]

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]]> https://www.dietvsdisease.org/l-arginine-supplementation/feed/ 0 11 Foods Scientifically Proven to Lower Your Blood Pressure https://www.dietvsdisease.org/11-proven-food-to-lower-blood-pressure/ Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:07:46 +0000 http://dietvsdisease.org/?p=81 Lowering high blood pressure can be difficult. You need to relax more and get adequate sleep. Take medications daily- as though it’s natural. Exercise regularly. And perhaps hardest of all, change the way you eat. The cruel twist? You can’t feel stressed by any of this because it only makes things worse (1)… High blood pressure (known medically as hypertension) is easy to get, and hard to get rid of. And it shows in the data. One in every three American adults has high blood pressure, and it contributes to 1,000 US deaths per day. To normalise blood pressure is one of, if not the most important thing you can do to increase your health, quality of life and lifespan. Fortunately, evidence shows there’s an abundance of natural food to lower blood pressure available to us. Rather than cutting things[Discover More...]

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