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Re: Re: Pill may help OSA

Posted by snowman on June 27, 2002 at 14:17:02:

In Reply to: Re: Pill may help OSA posted by AlA on June 27, 2002 at 05:09:05:

L-Arginine will not help release more nitric oxide into the blood. L-Arginine will help produce more nitric oxide when it is needed.

Nitro glycerine releases a whole lot of nitric oxide into your blood, but I understand that this effect only lasts a few days. L-Arginine helps replenish the spent nitric oxide. So anyone who takes nitro for heart condition may notice something for a few days.

If you are normal L-Arginine is probably a waste of money as it would do nothing.

I am not suggesting that anyone take anything, I would recommend against it. I am discussing the possibility that a pill (what pill? who knows) may in theory help OSA for certain people who have general inflamation due to several common diseases. There may be any number of ways to reduce the inflamation. A side effect (actually the desired effect, but in the non target location) of a new type of device I am using has been to reduce inflamation over my entire body. As a result my OSA has improved immensly and I have even added 2 hours of sleep for a total of 8 to 9 hours. I do have an autopap and the number of apneas and hypopneas has declined significantly to near zero.

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