Nitric Oxide Foundation Support

When you take the recommended two capsules a day, the box will last for 30 days. Each box contains 60 capsules.

Erectile dysfunction can be an early warning sign of heart problems because erectile problems are usually caused by atherosclerosis -hardening and stiffening of the arteries that leads to reduced blood flow.

Nitric oxide support is designed to Support blood circulation, remove elevated levels of nitric oxide production, and may provide enhance blood to the erectile tissue.

Nitric Oxide Supports overall health because it:

Maintains blood pressure levels

Supports the body’s blood vessel system

AIDS in the relaxation of blood vessels

Maintains a healthy immune system

Assists in the delivery of blood and nutrients to vital organs within the body

You should always consult your physician or healthcare professional before you make any decisions about taking anything. You should proceed with caution if you are considering taking it alongside any popular erection medication because you may see a decrease in blood pressure.

Oftentimes prescription ED medications and gas station pills stop working. This may be because they can only work if there is an adequate supply of nitric oxide present.

Sometimes doctors will recommend that you take nitric oxide support along with other prescribed erectile dysfunction medications. Those same prescription medicines sometimes do not work if your body cannot produce adequate levels of nitric oxide. This nitric oxide support supplement, can help your body produce more nitric oxide, so those prescription medications may start back working.

These pills cannot work if nitric oxide hasn’t been produced by your body in a big enough quantity. These pills require nitric oxide to be present. They also will lose effectiveness overtime if the penile tissue becomes weak and fibrotic. Fibrotic erectile tissue is hard and has a difficult time expanding. Since erections happen with the expansion of blood vessels and tissue, when the tissue can no longer expand, erections suffer. So one of the first steps in completing an erection tuneup is to help improve the quality of the fibrotic tissue.

The next reason that the medication may have potentially stopped working is that the body overtime stops producing nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is essential medication like Cialis and Viagra are to work. Without adequate levels of nitric oxide on board, and erection cannot be made.

Another Reason why medications may have stopped working for you, is because you may have stress related to erections. Stress activates the sympathetic nervous system, which in fact turns off the erection. So that is why it is important to manage stress and learn how to relax in all sexual situations.

Nitric oxide production decreases as you age, and people who have any type of chronic disease like hypertension, diabetes, pre-diabetes, autoimmune disorders, blood disorders, or metabolic syndrome are thought to also produce lower levels of nitric oxide. Low nitric oxide levels means that blood flow to various parts of the body are diminished.

What about using L-arginine to boost nitric oxide production?

Many popular nitric oxide boosters use L-Arginine as a way to boost nitric oxide production.

Taking L-arginine can be useful for some in the short term, but can actually become harmful in the long term. Within the body it is a precursor to the formation of nitric oxide. Your body takes l-arginine and using something called NOS (nitric oxide synthase), it creates nitric oxide. If NOS doesn’t work or is what we call uncoupled, it will not work. Nitric oxide production will be impaired.

Although some people take it as a supplement, L-arginine is actually made within your body from glutamine, glutamate, and proline, and it is also found in many protein rich foods. The problem with supplementing or taking daily products with high levels of L-arginine is that the body doesn’t know what to do with all of that l-arginine.

When the system is flooded with l-arginine, it can hang around and instead of being used by NOS (nitric oxide synthase) to make more nitric oxide. Instead of being useful, it is transformed through methylation and ultimately becomes ADMA (Asymmetric Dimethylarginine).

ADMA actually blocks the activity of NOS (nitric oxide synthase) that is necessary for the production of nitric oxide. With NOS blocked or uncoupled, this can become a toxic situation for your body.

There is actually a strong relationship between high levels of ADMA and major cardiac events like heart attack.

This is why I do not recommend that l-arginine based supplements are taken long term. As you age, the amount of functional NOS is already low. Lowering the NOS even further by taking too much l-arginine could become catastrophic.

Inorganic nitrates like the ones found in the fruit and vegetables within my E-Function Smoothie Recipes, as well as the kind found in nitrate based supplements can help reactivate or couple NOS so that it can start back making more nitric oxide.

This is always a tough concept because when you hear organic, you think veggies, but in this case, it is the opposite. Inorganic nitrates are the kind found in fruit and veggies, and organic nitrates are the kind found in medicine.

Organic nitrates, like nitroglycerin, isosorbide, PETN, are nitrate esters. These have been used in medicine for high blood pressure. Nitrates in leafy greens (like spinach), Berkeley Life, and other nitrate based supplements are inorganic nitrates.

So while the term “inorganic” makes it sound artificial, these inorganic nitrates are the ones that are safe for most people to add to their diet or supplement regimen, when dosed at appropriate levels.

Even though they can both help produce more nitric oxide within the body, organic and inorganic nitrates are used differently within the body.

Organic nitrates like nitroglycerin, are bioactivated in the mitochondria by aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALD2) using its esterase activity. In addition to the increased NO, it can lead to increased superoxide production and tolerance to organic nitrate over time.

Inorganic nitrates in food and Berkeley Life must first be absorbed into the blood stream, concentrated in the salivary glands and then reduced to nitrite by anaerobic bacteria on the dorsal aspect of the tongue. This is then reduced further to NO in the stomach and other tissues in the body, without the concern of superoxide production or tolerance formation.

Inorganic nitrates are different from organic nitrates. These may both be called nitrates, but they are activated within the body by 2 distinct pathways. We have not found any studies using inorganic nitrates with PDE5 inhibitors with any negative effects.

But, you should have a conversation with your doctor about what is right for you. Some doctors misunderstand the difference between an organic and an inorganic nitrate and you may have to provide some basic education.

I have had many patients successfully use inorganic nitrates in conjunction with generic cialis and viagra with fabulous success.

To make a dietary comparison, the amount of dietary nitrate in two capsules of Berkeley Life is approximately equal to 5 ounces of spinach or 7 oz of beets.

Organic nitrates are the nitrates to be cautious of, no worries with inorganic nitrates. Organic nitrates are the nitrates that can cause an

unsafe drop in blood pressure and increased superoxide production. Inorganic nitrates, on the other hand, use a different conversion pathway in the body and are safe for most people to use, and can even improve the outcome of medications like Viagra and Cialis.

Using organic, but not inorganic nitrates, along with PDE5 inhibitors can lead to an unsafe drop in blood pressure and even, in some cases, death.

Potassium nitrate has multiple uses, including long-time use as an additive for food. It has a long safety record in human consumption – and is not on California’s Prop 65 list of potentially harmful compounds, which is widely known for it’s stringent safety standards.

[ Source: Tanja Sobko, Claude Marcus, Mirco Govoni, Shigeru Kamiya. “Dietary nitrate in Japanese traditional foods lowers diastolic blood pressure in healthy volunteers.” Nitric Oxide Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 136-140]

Uses of potassium nitrate for gardening or farming leverages potassium nitrate in water at 226,796mg of per use or 724 times the dosage from two capsules of Berkeley Life. For comparison, a fatal dose of bananas, if someone were able to consume it, would be around 400 bananas.

A study from the 1970’s spurred a still-pervasive misconception that nitrate intake presents a cancer-concern.

Two reasons to be critical of this – to begin, the study was done on red meat and cured meats – both of which contain very little nitrate. The cancer risk here likely has more to do with the consistent consumption of red and cured meats.

Secondly, most consumed nitrates come from leafy green vegetables, which would suggest there should be a much higher rate of cancer in vegans and vegetarians if nitrates were cancer–causing.

There are no artificial fillers and this supplement is considered a clean label supplement. It contains a proprietary blend of potassium nitrate, beet root extract, magnesium citrate, vitamin B12 (methylcobalmin), Thiamin, and Vitamin C.