what I want you to do is for those of you who are taking Arginine I want you to stop taking Arginine
right now I said it I want you to slow down on the Arginine because honestly if you don't know
whether or not your gut is working properly if we don't know whether or not that pathway is working
for you with the Arginine then you can actually be doing a little bit of damage so let me kind
of show you a little bit about what I'm talking about so that it makes sense because arginine
is something that we've talked about and um you know because honestly nitric oxide production
comes in two different forms right we can make nitric oxide through the Arginine pathway and
we can make it through our nitrate consumption the problem with the L-Arginine pathway for a
lot of people is the fact that if that pathway isn't running right if you are over the age of
50 and potentially you aren't making enough nitric oxide synthase synthase to even use
that L-Arginine I want you to think about it like this okay everything is good in moderation but
what happens if we pile too much of anything in the body what happens if we drink too much
water right say you decide oh I'm going to drink water all day and you drink five gallons of water
guess what most of you are going to end up in the emergency room if that's all you've done that day
right too much of anything can set things off so for I spoke with a scientist today who is behind
um the the the the the the the recipe in the Berkeley life professional and she showed me
scientific data that really talks about how if you aren't Arginine deficient and you go ahead
and load up Arginine in your body basically what you're doing is you're setting up a pathway where
your body can use that Arginine for all types of bad things instead of good things right so
imagine having too much of something in your body and now your body's like oh [ __ ] well
what what are we supposed to do with this I don't know what we're supposed to do with it we'll just
put it off to the side and when you put it off to the side it starts to create its own habit that
L-Arginine can that Arginine can actually start to create chaos and confusion it can create ammonia
it can cause issues and particularly in older gentlemen because why because you remember that
picture that I've put up and let me let me remind you of it that picture that I've put up that
shows you how over time we have a decrease in our blood vessels ability to make nitric oxide right
because the nitric oxide synthase stops working as well so what happens is if you got too much
L-Arginine in the system because you're taking a bunch of it orally what you can potentially
do is not stimulate that pathway to work because remember if there's the the nitric oxide synthase
isn't working then all of a sudden all that's going to shunt over and start to create a bunch
of problems for you so with that being the case I want to make sure that you understand if nothing
else here because some of you complaining that I'm teaching too much and have too many slides but I
want you to understand that through the years okay so let me put this one up okay so look at this
this is how our nitric oxide goes oops this is how our nitric oxide goes through the years right so
this is representing our body's ability to make nitric oxide synthase nitric oxide synthase is
what we're using to take that Arginine that's created in our body and make nitric oxide so if
you notice by the time we're in our 40s we have 50 activity there by the time you're in your 60s
you only have 15 of your activity there this is why for my older gentleman I used to use mostly
beetroot supplements and things like that to boost nitric oxide production and not necessarily
Arginine now if you're going to use one of the supplements l-citrulline is still okay to use but
what's happening because l-citrulline goes into the body and our body makes L-Arginine with it but
if you're giving your body straight up L-Arginine and you are over the age of 40 you are potentially
creating a situation for yourself of releasing toxins into your body that don't necessarily
need to be there all right so that's that's this picture now I want to show you how there
are two different Pathways that we're actually using to create nitric oxide in the body right
um remember of course there's the L-Arginine pathway and most of the supplements designed for
the workout industry and the the the bodybuilders and stuff they use a lot of L-Arginine and
l-citrulline which which tends to be fine for uh younger people who can handle all of that but
honestly when I spoke with um Dr Beth today her whole thing is she never gives anybody L-Arginine
because she just doesn't know what it's doing to the system so let me see where can I put this
I'm going to put this right here right here right here okay so if you look here at our two pathways
there's the L-Arginine pathway and there's the diet pathway now remember what we talked
about with mouthwash I said listen we've got to pull back on mouthwash because
mouthwash is one is one of the culprits in destroying the bacteria that's necessary for
this second Pathway to work this one that says diet up here now the cool thing about
this pathway over here this diet pathway is that we can control that a little bit
we got plenty of control with it we can actually load up the body with nitrates and we can see
some outcomes because that can actually help you produce more nitric oxide the pathway that
we really can't control and I'm going to zoom in on it so you can really see it is the L-Arginine
pathway we cannot control that as time goes by our body's ability to create nitric oxide synthase is
actually destroyed now there are by eating a diet rich in nitrates by using the smoothie recipes as
well as smoothie recipes are helping so many people feel better not just with erections but
everything else is because the nitrate level and some of those smoothies are off the charts
right and so if we're loading up in nitrates not only are we pushing this pathway of nitric
oxide production but we're also get this we're also repairing that pathway that we destroyed by
taking in too much mouthwash for for uh taking too many acid blockers in our stomach right because we
block the acid here we have trouble creating nitric oxide if we mess up our our microbiome
or the bacteria in our mouth because we're using too much mouthwash or we're we're swishing with
hydrogen peroxide or we've got gum disease now what we're doing by taking in nitrates
is we're actually gradually even repairing some of that microbiome and helping it get healthier
but what you don't want to do so the the bacteria that's important for this there's on the back of
your tongue so I tell guys all the time I listen if you've got to have your mouthwash try to just
keep it in the front of your mouth right try to close off the back of your mouth so that it just
stays right in the front and you swish it and you spit it out mouthwash isn't something that
you should chronically be using because it can interfere with your erections it can interfere
with your blood pressure it can interfere with the weight a whole thing runs I know I talk a
lot about erections but blood flow is blood flow if we got heart disease we got disease in the D if
we got disease in the D likely we have disease in the heart so because of all of these blood vessels
are supplying they're the same they're made out of the same stuff they're made with endothelium