Does L-Arginine work?

I take it whenever I can afford it. Stuff is like man fuel, for any male. Over the counter, not expensive as Hell, common and safe? I’m in.

I tried the vitamin shoppe brand l-arginine, 100 capsules, so about a 3 month supply. I never noticed a difference in my erection quality which already isn’t the best, and I almost never wake up with morning wood. I finished the bottle a week or so ago, and nothing has changed, so either that brand is fake, or it just doesn’t work for me, or there is another issue affecting my EQ.

I take 5 capsules at 1000Mg a day.

Personally, I take L-citrulline. It works extremely well for me. Citrulline is part of the nitric oxide cycle along with L-arginine and L-ornithithine. Citrulline is converted to arginine by the kidneys missing the “first-pass” effect by the stomach and liver, unlike arginine, therefore, more arginine gets into the bloodstream. I’ve had tremendous success with it in the erection department at six grams a day. I take 3 in the morning and 3 in the evening. Helps with exercise recovery as well the same as arginine.

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So I experimented with 1G of L-Arginine a day last fall. After a few weeks of use, even with such a small amount, I noticed I was much more horny then before I took it. After a few months, I noticed a lot of erections. In fact, about 60 days in there was one day where I was hard almost all day.

I recently have decided to try L-Arginine again as a source of erection quality because I’m trying to ween myself off of Cialis (Tadalafil). Last night I took 5G and today I took another 5G. After taking the 5G today, I almost immediately got a rock-hard erection. The difference between last night and today was that today I took it on an empty stomach.

I’ll post back in about a week or two with journal-ed results. I’m also taking Ginkgo Biloba.

Hmm.. how big are the capsules? 1000mg? If so, I don’t think you’re taking an effective dose.

You might try stacking it with an ED drug like viagra or cialis. Take 2000mg or so with the ED drug 30 min before sex. The ED drug acts as a PDE5 inhibitor, and the L-arginine opens up the blood vessels a bit more than the ED drug alone. If I take l-arginine alone, I find a modest response, but when taken with a pde5 inhibitor, I see a bigger impact.

Does that mean you people who benefit form using such amino acid have potential blood arterial problems or your diets falls short of such component ?

Why not treat your ED problem to start with?

I am using it because of health problems in my legs.

This is what I take for Arginine, any thoughts?

If you’re following the label and taking 3 tablets at a time, you’re getting 3000mg in a dose. How many times a day? Just once?

I don’t take it all the time - I take 2000mg with viagra or cialis and get better results than with the ED drugs alone. I expect that if you took 3000mg every day, after a while your body would adjust to it, and you couldn’t see a difference anymore.

Well I take it twice a day, so 6 tablets for 6000mg. I take this as one of my supplements for when I work out. So 3-4 days on and 1 day off. I just started to take them, will update with any changes.

If I’m going to buy 1000 mg l-arginine how many pills I should take a day ? Also there is any dangerous if I mixed it with Maca , Korean red ginseng , l-citruline ,ginkgo biloba and zinc?

If you’re going to take supplements take one at a time for a while to see how it affects you, otherwise if something works you won’t know which one it was.
Also I’d be wary of taking ginkgo and arginine together.

Why?

Gave me headaches and burst blood vessels.

According to the following study L-Arginine has no measurable effect:

"Effectiveness of oral L-arginine in first-line treatment of erectile dysfunction in a controlled crossover study."