L-Arginine - 6g/Day Boost Cholesterol- & Non-Esterified Fatty Acid Lowering Effects of Resistance Training. Are Classic Pre-Workouts Actually "Health Supplements"?
Lifting will improve your blood lipids, l-arginine will boost the effect. In the spirit of Tuesday's post on the potential negative effects of nitrate supplements on weight loss ( learn more + see box below for some important clarifications), I would like to invite you to take a look at the effects of "short-term L-arginine supplementation on lipid profile and inflammatory proteins after acute resistance exercise in overweight men" as they are about to be reported in one of the future issues of e-SPEN, the European e-Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism by Nascimento et al. (Nascimento. 2014) - it's not essentially new, but actually quite a nice reminder of the fat that what I said about l-arginine in the nitrate article was not all made up. An addendum to the nitrate study: Even a persistent 5% reduction in RMR would not necessarily inhibit weight loss + you can argue that your body needs less energy / oxygen, because it works...