More on Nitric Oxide (NO) against infection & inflammation PLUS Arginine

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I recently started taking chromium again but am trying it this time

combined with Arginine (which seems to be recommended for diabetes

prevention). Interestingly, I just learned from a body building site

that the reason body builders use arginine is to increase their Nitric

Oxide. After coincidentally reading on Eby's site that reduced

NO seems to be a common symptom of sinusitis sufferers, that caught my

interest.

Apparently, Nitric Oxide is not only important in fighting infection

and responding to inflammation, it's also important for blood vessel

health, blood pressure, etc. If your NO is down, you can experience

increased vasodilation, etc. I'm wondering if this is contributing to

not only my headaches, but my abnormal veins and low bp.

Anybody else know much about NO? According to one site, supplementing

with regular arginine is only capable of creating short lived NO

boosts, while another type of Arginine can create a continuous level,

possibly through some kind of time release mechanism. Anyone know

anything about this? Or is it just a marketing ploy?

Here's a good part of a 500+ pg book called appropriately enough,

Nitric Oxide and Infection:

http://books.google.com/books?

id=sM05oRzCuloC & dq=nitric+oxide+and+infection & pg=PP1 & ots=1iA12HeHfJ & sig=

a9V4vl5BGT2ZsKwdw9fAgrhRRAY & prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%

26rls%3DSUNA%252CSUNA%253A2006-49%252CSUNA%253Aen%26q%3Dnitric%2Boxide%

2Band%2Binfection & sa=X & oi=print & ct=title#PPA157,M1

Checking PubMed, there seem to be a number of links between arginine

deficiency and the production of biofilms as well. Whether

supplementing with it will create enough NO and better vessel health to

help...who knows? Maybe that's where a time release option becomes

relevant?

penny