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Post 93 points out that what is being talked about here is nitric oxide, not nitrogen dioxide.Isn't NO2 nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant?
Thanks for reporting back, we all really do appreciate it.Well I am 6 month mark now and have steadily improved over that period to a point of being CFS free.
I can play golf every day, go to gym after it, no repercussions. In March I had to play every other day as there was a slight "payback" then. Now I have none. It has been a gradual ascendancy.
I do not attribute NO2 black to "curing" me but helped alleviate symptoms during the start of this "recovery period". Now I take only 4 tabs a day, previous was 10. I envisage a point in 2016 where I can stop them,
Thanks for reporting back, we all really do appreciate it.
did you ever get a chance to try AAKG alone? Many here were curious to whether AAKG is the magic bullet in NO2 black. I cannot take NO2 black because of the ALA in it.
I have tried up to 10g of AAKG a day (equal to 10 pills of NO2 black) and I saw no boost in my NO levels.
I started taking it yesterday and so far so good. By that I mean no side effects I started with half a pill at breakfast and the other half at lunch yesterday. Then a full pill at breakfast and lunch today. I have felt more stable and nothing bad yet. I'll stick with it and increase to 2 pills at each meal after a few days.
As a followup, I stopped taking this a couple of days ago. It started making me feel very strange. Itchy skin, headache, general odd feeling. It got unpleasent enough that, in the absence of more pronounced improvement, it wasn't worth it. I may try it again soon, as I like to give things a fair shot, but I didn't really see much help from it for the 5 days I was on it.
I think the NO2 is "force opening" the smaller vessels.
Kdm was of opinion that the lyme biofims attached to inner vessel wall inhibiting vessel flexibility and clogging up microcirculation.
NO2 black is only masking the underlying issue.
Personally i think i have some bacterial overgrowth on small vessels keeping them rigid....in hot humidity they become flexible again.....much like when you heat glue it softens.
Maybe kdm is right all this time and its a lyme issue.
Biofilms in Infection Prevention and Control: A Healthcare Handbook
"The structure of medical biofilms is substantially influenced by the interaction of particles of non-microbial components from the host or environment. In the human body, biofilms on native heart valves provide a clear example of this type of interaction, in which the biofilm’s bacterial micro-colonies develop in a matrix of platelets, fibrin and EPS..."
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
"The sticky fibrin matrix promotes platelet disposition in capillaries and arterioles leading to thrombosis and ultimately causing small vessel occlusion. Clots or thrombosis within blood vessels lead to decreased perfusion thus decreased supply of oxygen and other vital nutrients to tissues distal to the clot. The decreased perfusion leads to ischemia, injury and without treatment, loss of cell function. The ischemic cells revert to anaerobic metabolism with resulting increase in lactic acid causing metabolic acidosis and eventually necrosis/cell death."
Nitric Oxide and the Cardiovascular System
"NO suppresses platelet adhesion to the endothelium thereby preventing platelet recruitment and aggregation, as well. When stimulated with bradykinin, endothelial cells release NO in amounts sufficient to inhibit platelet adhesion. Immediately downstream from where NO is released, platelet aggregation is diminished…"
KDM may be right.
its interesting thanks.
maybe we are just prone to biofilm buildups.
@Elph68 was an advocate of biofilm buildups....plaque like formations.
hi.
yea but was also noticed by fluge and mella using NO. they must have had decent responders.
i can still dip very quickly taking lots of sugar..........NO2 black or not. i am in remission but i am aware of "known" triggers at the same time.....hence would never use term cured.
There are others getting a benefit from prescription nitrate vasodilators, it amounts to the same thing as using these supplements, they all act as potassium channel openers.But some have tried and there is only 2 successes so far, including you.
I can't know for sure but maybe you are in a different subgroup.