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Q: I???ve seen a lot of advertising of a supplement called NO2. It claims to give you an awesome muscle pump during training that lasts all day. The ad says that this enhances muscle growth. Do you know anything about NO2? Is there any research that suggests these claims may be true?
A: Yet another supplement promising to deliver you the world. What a joke. The marketers of NO2 claim that it gives the bodybuilder a ???perpetual pump??? (I???m not sure what that means). The marketers of NO2 also claim that NO2 increases nitric oxide levels within muscle and this causes a dramatic increase in muscle size, strength, endurance, power output and load capacity. Why didn't they just say it would increase wealth, fame, sexuality, intelligence, and looks. They might as well have, they would have just as much research to support these claims. Which happens to be none.
The ???active??? ingredient in NO2 that is supposed to produce these effects is arginine alpha-ketogluterate. Once the marketing smoke screen is swept aside, you???ll find there is no scientific evidence that even remotely substantiates these claims. None, zero, nada, zilch.
Nitric oxide is a colorless, free radical gas commonly found in tissues of all mammals (it???s also prepared commercially by passing air through an electric arc). Biologically, nitric oxide has been shown to be an important neuro-messenger in many vertebrate signal transduction processes. Nitric oxide is considered a natural vasodilator of smooth muscle (not skeletal muscle). While nitric oxide acts as a cell-to-cell communicator for certain metabolic functions, muscle growth is not one of them. No research anywhere indicates that increasing nitric oxide levels plays a part in increasing protein synthesis, contractile strength or any other biochemical pathway that may lead to net gains in muscle mass.
While there is a lot of research on the effects of nitric oxide, there is no evidence that arginine alpha-ketogluterate supplementation will increase or sustain nitric oxide levels in skeletal muscles. There is also no evidence that increasing nitric oxide levels will enhance muscle growth or any metabolic pathway that may enhance muscle growth. There is no evidence to suggest that increasing nitric oxide levels may improve any other parameter of athletic performance.
Is it just me or does it seem that the less science there is for a supplement the more outrageous the claims usually are?
The promoter of NO2 claims to have ???brought creatine supplementation to the market??? and that ???NO2 is the perfected version of creatine???. I???m not sure which ???market??? is being referred to, as creatine has been used as a supplement for over 40 years. And NO2 is definitely not a ???perfected version of creatine???. NO2 and creatine are nothing alike ??? creatine is backed by a wealth of research, NO2 does not have a shred of scientific evidence that justifies its effectiveness as a bodybuilding supplement.
When new products burst onto the market, consumers need to be a little savvy before parting with their hard-earned dollars. Ask the supplement company making the claims to "show you the research" ??? the study, the protocol and the outcomes. Regarding NO2, research does not exist. There's a lot of hot air, but no research.
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