Does NO2 really aid lifting?
As a pharmacologist I had a good laugh. (By the way your link only took me the index page of GNC). I used their search engine to get to this: Arginine Alpha-Ketoglutarate extended-Release FormulaNO2 is a powerful nitric oxide-generating, performance-enhancing, HEMODILATOR®. NO2 is nitrous oxide not nitric oxide. Nitrous oxide is laughing gas. Nitric oxide is a blood vessel dilator (I guess they’ve registered the term “hemodilator.”) You can get that in a number of products, none of which I would recommend for body building (the nitroglycerin for angina provides NO). However, this doesn’t give you nitric oxide (which turns over very rapidly anyhow). It gives you an amino acid, arginine attaches it to a sugar, glutarate and charges you 70 bucks for it. Even if it worked, the price should have been about five bucks. Or you can look at this site. http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=556124 I didn’t read their whole article, but the tenor of its opening sounded like they were pegging thi
