Diamattic
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
For the last few years I have been making my best attempt to get to the gym for cardio and weights 2-4 times every week. We all know how hard this can be when you work 9-5, or during the holidays or winter months. To add that bit of extra motivation I had always used what is know as a 'Pre-Workout Supplement'. Many PWOs can be bought, and can range from stuff like energy drinks to full on **** that usually turns out to be unhealthy, and ends up with sales bans for some reason or another.
Long story short, when i was diagnosed i was told i had to stop anything that contained creatine because it was apparently hard on the kidneys - which is fine i didn't need creatine anyway, but the PWOs i was taking contained it, so i had to find a new brand.
These last few months i have been taking a product that (when reading through the label) has fairly few ingredients - mostly Vitamins (C, B6, B12) Niacin, Calcium, no sugar, no calories and a couple others. The main ingredients is a caffeine, and a nitric oxide blend.
Caffeine is hit or miss for some people (and you can get PWOs with caffeine, i just prefer that energy boast before the gym after a long day at work).
The nitric oxide blend is what this thread is really about. I have noticed that within 30 minutes of taking like 1/4 of a scoop i find my sugars drop up to 3mmol/L and stabilize at that low number (so i can eat a bunch, check, and see it at 8, drink this stuff and check again later and they will read at 5 - without taking insulin at all or even moving from my chair lol)
From what i have read is Nitric Oxide causes the blood vessels to dilate and pull in more glucose, as well as transfer more nutrients to your muscles more effectively. Which makes sense that it would drop your sugars. But i have already read some things that Diabetes notoriously are low in nitric oxide in their blood. From what i can make out is that when we have high sugars the increased glucose causes the cell functions to change and doing so it uses up the NO and causes the vessels to constrict, which is bad for our hearts and eyes, and pretty much everything.
From everything i have read (my doctor says i can take the supplement without worry to my health) it seems very beneficial to be using the PWOs for those reasons, i am not a doctor, or biologist or anything but reading the benefits of NO and knowing that is dilates blood vessels, transports more nutrients throughout the body, it would make sense that it could offer potential benefit to folks with neuropathies, correct?
This post is a lot of brainstorming, just putting information out there for folks to maybe consider? I don't know lol
What do you guys think on this ?
EDIT - the product I am currently taking is a PWO purchased at an online sports nutrition website, and is a powder that honestly is very enjoyable to drink haha If anyone cares to know the few products i have experience with send me a PM or if enough people ask i can post names. So far no negatives here, I don't know if there would be long term problems associated with ingesting Nitric Oxide supplements?
Long story short, when i was diagnosed i was told i had to stop anything that contained creatine because it was apparently hard on the kidneys - which is fine i didn't need creatine anyway, but the PWOs i was taking contained it, so i had to find a new brand.
These last few months i have been taking a product that (when reading through the label) has fairly few ingredients - mostly Vitamins (C, B6, B12) Niacin, Calcium, no sugar, no calories and a couple others. The main ingredients is a caffeine, and a nitric oxide blend.
Caffeine is hit or miss for some people (and you can get PWOs with caffeine, i just prefer that energy boast before the gym after a long day at work).
The nitric oxide blend is what this thread is really about. I have noticed that within 30 minutes of taking like 1/4 of a scoop i find my sugars drop up to 3mmol/L and stabilize at that low number (so i can eat a bunch, check, and see it at 8, drink this stuff and check again later and they will read at 5 - without taking insulin at all or even moving from my chair lol)
From what i have read is Nitric Oxide causes the blood vessels to dilate and pull in more glucose, as well as transfer more nutrients to your muscles more effectively. Which makes sense that it would drop your sugars. But i have already read some things that Diabetes notoriously are low in nitric oxide in their blood. From what i can make out is that when we have high sugars the increased glucose causes the cell functions to change and doing so it uses up the NO and causes the vessels to constrict, which is bad for our hearts and eyes, and pretty much everything.
From everything i have read (my doctor says i can take the supplement without worry to my health) it seems very beneficial to be using the PWOs for those reasons, i am not a doctor, or biologist or anything but reading the benefits of NO and knowing that is dilates blood vessels, transports more nutrients throughout the body, it would make sense that it could offer potential benefit to folks with neuropathies, correct?
This post is a lot of brainstorming, just putting information out there for folks to maybe consider? I don't know lol
What do you guys think on this ?
EDIT - the product I am currently taking is a PWO purchased at an online sports nutrition website, and is a powder that honestly is very enjoyable to drink haha If anyone cares to know the few products i have experience with send me a PM or if enough people ask i can post names. So far no negatives here, I don't know if there would be long term problems associated with ingesting Nitric Oxide supplements?