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My endo "prescribed" me L-Arginine/L-Citruline a few years back. He's fairly progressive endo in the bay area who tells all of his patients who need it to take l-arginine and a bit of l-citruline. My pdoc told me to stop taking the l-arginine last year, but i'm off of a bunch of psych meds/supplements and saw my endo again and he suggested i try again.
I've also been lifting and swimming pretty intensely over the past 6 months, both to just get bcak into shape, but also to help lose weight to improve my sleep (diagnosed with sleep apnea and was debilitated for over a year). I've lost 15+lbs and gained lots of muscle too. I hear L-Citrulline is good for endurance and recovery.
Can you folks add some insight here as to what I should take in terms of dose, and anything else I should watch for?
I've read conflicting things about l-arginine not being useful in the long term. I'm also curious as to what the right dosages for both heart, metabolic issues, and training of either or both the compounds are.
I am taking 8-10g of L_Citrulline in 4-5 divided doses per day. I'm 220lb 5'11 32 year old male. Is this too much? What are potential side effects? Do I need to be taking any arginine on top of this?
Finallly, lastly i'm concerned about any interactions with other psych meds or my bipoolar 2 condition. L-arginine seems to be a bit "stimulating"...is that the right intuition? What about l-citrulline? HAs anyone noticed either having an effect on their sleep or ESPECIALLY stress tolerance/irritability? It may be becuase of other medications i am tapering off of now, but over the past week since i started the l-citrulline, especially past few days, my noise sensitiveity has gone through the roof. Literally am about to explode fly off the handle whenever i hear noise pollution, can't concentrate, etc. and when im driving in traffic. Little scary ('roid rage' maybe from my Axiron T-gel???).
Anyway whateve ryou guyus can say about L-arginine, L-Citrulline, mood effects, performance effects, and stress tolerance as well as appropriate dosage sand what to watch for would be super helpful! I post mostly on mindandmuscle but have heard first hand a lot of good things about the knowledge and experience on this forum!
My endo "prescribed" me L-Arginine/L-Citruline a few years back. He's fairly progressive endo in the bay area who tells all of his patients who need it to take l-arginine and a bit of l-citruline. My pdoc told me to stop taking the l-arginine last year, but i'm off of a bunch of psych meds/supplements and saw my endo again and he suggested i try again.
I've also been lifting and swimming pretty intensely over the past 6 months, both to just get bcak into shape, but also to help lose weight to improve my sleep (diagnosed with sleep apnea and was debilitated for over a year). I've lost 15+lbs and gained lots of muscle too. I hear L-Citrulline is good for endurance and recovery.
Can you folks add some insight here as to what I should take in terms of dose, and anything else I should watch for?
I've read conflicting things about l-arginine not being useful in the long term. I'm also curious as to what the right dosages for both heart, metabolic issues, and training of either or both the compounds are.
I am taking 8-10g of L_Citrulline in 4-5 divided doses per day. I'm 220lb 5'11 32 year old male. Is this too much? What are potential side effects? Do I need to be taking any arginine on top of this?
Finallly, lastly i'm concerned about any interactions with other psych meds or my bipoolar 2 condition. L-arginine seems to be a bit "stimulating"...is that the right intuition? What about l-citrulline? HAs anyone noticed either having an effect on their sleep or ESPECIALLY stress tolerance/irritability? It may be becuase of other medications i am tapering off of now, but over the past week since i started the l-citrulline, especially past few days, my noise sensitiveity has gone through the roof. Literally am about to explode fly off the handle whenever i hear noise pollution, can't concentrate, etc. and when im driving in traffic. Little scary ('roid rage' maybe from my Axiron T-gel???).
Anyway whateve ryou guyus can say about L-arginine, L-Citrulline, mood effects, performance effects, and stress tolerance as well as appropriate dosage sand what to watch for would be super helpful! I post mostly on mindandmuscle but have heard first hand a lot of good things about the knowledge and experience on this forum!
