Straight Nitric Oxide vs. Arginine

Hey everybody. A little while ago I was in GNC and checked out their Nitric Oxide - they keep it in a locked off display case, shit the bed that stuff is expensive - I think over a hundred dollars Canadian for a bottle - but anyway, I did not find a specific thread about it (sorry if there is one), and was wondering. Would straight Nitric Oxide be more effective then L-Arginine for increasing erection levels?

Any experience or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a ton! :)

Nordstrum - usually I do searches for newbies and then post a nice orderly list of all the previous threads for them. But you’ve been around here long enough to know how to search for things. There are dozens of posts on this, but you have to use the right search terms.

Click on the “search” button at the top right of the page and enter “NOx2 arginine” in the box. That will get you more than 30 threads that talk about those two supplements.

Yep, I know I am guilty of a very brief search - let me see if I can find something then…apologies.

NO2 is just large amounts of Arginine.

BTW, isn’t nitric oxide a gas found in whipped cream cans? In my teen years working in an ice cream store, the young boss used to get high on the gas of empty whipped cream cans. I thought that was nitric oxide.

No, Rambone that’s Nitrous Oxide.

Nitric oxide is a poisonous gas.

No, thats nitrous oxide(laughing gas), also used in cars for extra horse power.

LOL

Well, there! Now I have to go and return all those cases of whipped cream!

J/K

or you could keep it for the bedroom

If NO2 is poisonous, why would our body produce it?

Well obviously it plays a role in our body, but if you were in a room full of NO2 well it wouldn’t do your body much good.

It’s easy to confuse the three gases: nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O). Here are some definitions:

nitric oxide—A colorless gas, formula NO, the most common form of nitrogen emitted into the atmosphere, either by fuel combustion or due to natural emissions.

Nitric oxide is interconverted with nitrogen dioxide fairly readily in the atmosphere, resulting in catalytic cycles leading to ozone formation in the troposphere and ozone loss in the stratosphere.

In the troposphere it photodissociates to give free oxygen atoms, which then form ozone, and is thus a key player in local and regional air pollution events. In the stratosphere it participates in catalytic ozone destruction cycles, but also forms stable nitrate reservoir species that ameliorate ozone loss.

It has an atmospheric lifetime of about 160 years and is currently present at a level of about 330 ppb. Its atmospheric significance is that it is transported into the stratosphere, where its reaction with excited oxygen atoms (O1D) is the major source of active nitrogen; it is also a major greenhouse gas. In large amounts, it has anesthetic properties (laughing gas).

From the American Meteorological Society glossary

The same as if you were in a room full of water.