Sex drive: L-arginine and YOU

Hey guys, just curious has anyone else experienced a noticeable sex drive increase from taking L-arginine? I started taking it today as a workout supplement (I took two, 500 mg capsules after eating dinner) and about an hour or two afterward I felt hornier than usual, and I figured this extra drive would help PE so I did some dry jelqs in the bathroom, noticing that my erection was firmer than usual, and my cock looked much fuller and the erection didn’t subside while I was doing jelqs (I did about 200, nonstop).

I’ve also heard that taking L-arginine dramatically increases the amount of cum you release, but I’ve yet to see if that’s true. (I’ve cut down on my masturbation drastically in favor of retaining minerals and protein due to PE and going to the gym, so I basically don’t masturbate at all anymore; only occasionally).

Anyone else experience these kind of improvements from taking L-arginine?

It also makes your semen taste like shit. Drop some powder on your tongue that’s the equivalent. It can also stir up past infections to return if they are dormant and from the result I’ve stopped using and just take Omega 3 now.

Does it really make it taste like shit? Hmm.. Perhaps that effect could be taken care of by drinking pineapple juice?

I’ve not noticed any change in semen taste taking L-arginine. However, Long Grass is right that if you have any herpes type illnesses, you shouldn’t take it. Anyone else care to weigh in here? I’m still deciding if I should go back on it, but I have health concerns.

Also, don’t get L-arginine HCL. Get Arginine Alpha-Kelitogluterate (sp?). AAKG. It’s more bioavailable and has less nasty side effects. Usually sold as a NOX or NO2 type product.

What kind of side effects are you talking about? I take l-arginine, and plenty of it. Start with what you are taking now. But when I wake up I take 4 pills, 500mg each. Then 3 or 4 before working out, 3 or 4 after, and then 3 or 4 before sex/bed. Great pumps in the gym resulting from this. I also cum a lot. Helps with erection strength in my opinion. Great supplement.

It can also affect your prostate if you are prone to BPH, so with all things moderation should be the rule.

L-Arginine will not make you hornier. That would be placebo effect.

It is an effective vasodilator - good for after work-out pumps and firmer erections. It’ll also increase semen production and give sperm greater motility, although you have to take it for a few weeks before you will notice these increases (and to notice sperm motility you’ll need a microscope).

If you take it you’ll need to drink a lot of water. This will be part of what increases your load.

If you are dosing with NoX2 (or the equivalent) you will need the water and will actually run the risk of dehydrating more easily.

NoX2 is actually Arginine alpha-Ketoglutartate (aka: A-AKG). This product, and others like it, recommend a 3000 mg dose 3 times a day. This is mostly for bodybuilding - with a nice side effect: harder hard-ons.

For the hard-ons alone the 1500 - 3000 mg /day range should do the trick.

Arginine alpha-Ketoglutartate is much more bio-available than regular L-Arginine. If you are taking two or three 500 mgs of a supermarket or drugstore L-Arginine supplement try doubling the dosage, it’ll work better for you.

High arginine intake will aggravate certain chronic conditions: the various herpes, eczema, psoriasis. It will not give you these conditions unless you already have them, and if you do have them (most people have herpes - the cold-sore kind, not genital) it may not affect you this way at all. You’ll have to see. To counter balance this effect, if it shows up, you should up your lysine intake. 500 mg per day should do it.

As far as making your cum taste bad … I don’t know.

I’m not really a cum connoisseur.

But fruit juice is well documented to improve the taste; any highly sweet natural juice will do: pineapple juice, apple juice, or grape juice, for example. Natural fruit sugars are what do it. Processed sugars … not so much.

As far as being hornier … you’re what? 18? What do you need a pill for? When I was 18 a stiff breeze and the thought of girl I liked would do it.

Actually scratch the breeze.

Interesting L-Arginine was just banned in Australia (tablet form and medical grounds) will try to find a link relating to it but I was thinging of getting some myself and then read a newspaper report about 3 weeks ago about the ban

Do you know why they banned it, Robbie? Safety? Or perhaps it’s considered a performance enhancing compound?

X, your 18. Nothing will make you hornier than you already are!

No, that doesn’t sound right, I bought some only a couple of weeks ago, and I can’t see those NO products getting banned. I think it would be pretty hard to ban an amino acid which occurs naturally in food.

At 18 years old, you really shouldn’t be taking this supplement.

I see absolutely nothing the matter with his taking L-Arginine.

Like the man said it’s an amino acid. Vasodilators improve circulation, which is why you get firmer erections.

It would be even better to take it for exercise purposes, not just PE. He didn’t mention exercise, but let’s hope at 18 he’s getting some.

If he starts developing a chronic rash he should go off it. But I can’t see the harm otherwise.

Why do you think he should go pff it?

I did actually say I’m taking it as a workout supplement.. But that was a little before I read up on its PE benefits.

Ah, so you did.

That’s the problem with the “go to the first new post” function: it requires you to remember too much. I can’t keep track.