Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Path to the Pump: Super Nitric Oxide Stack. Animal Pump, VPX Power Shock, iForce Hemavol and Pycnogenol

Supplement companies mostly fall into one of two paths to nitric oxide production and the ever so exciting muscle pump that Arnold famously talked about in Pumping Iron.

Either:

Arginine ==> NO synthase (NOS) ==> nitric oxide pathway
or
Nitrate (NO3) ==> nitrite (NO2) ==> nitric oxide pathway

Interesting enough Glycine propionyl-L-carnitine (GPLC) or Glycocarn is a supplement that takes the NO3 path to the pump. It is expensive but the pump is huge.

Most have been migrating to the Citrulline ==> Arginine path in recent years. Studies suggest that citrulline allows you to produce more arginine than ingesting arginine.

I prefer to go at it from all angles.

Citrulline
Arginine
Ornithine
Nitrate

Supporting ingredients:

Vitamin C
Agmatine
Norvaline
Grape Seed Extract
Pycnogenol
Rutaecarpine
Horny Goat Weed

Now you're "cookin" with gas!"