If I am taking cardio c can that have a negative effect on me also taking arginine supplement?
I read that the two work against each other lysine and arginine
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Over the years we have been trying to track down the nature of the "antagonism," and if you have any references, I would appreciate them.
I do know that protein foods, e.g. chicken, contain both the amino acids arginine and lysine.
I also know that vitamin C and lysine can rapidly reverse heart disease - without arginine. (This is apparently based on lysine binding sites on the Lp(a) molecule).
I myself tried a high arginine regimen for 3 months last summer, with no apparent result - one way or the other. I personally think of arginine for helping dilate the arteries, not reversing heart disease.
But as far as the "antagonism" the best explanation I've heard (at a trade show) was action inside the cell - at the level of the DNA. Supposedly the reason than lysine can help fight viruses is it causes DNA to coil, and argnine to uncoil. Don't know if this is true, but there does seem to be an interaction visa vis viral infection.
I do not know of any negative reaction fighting chronic scurvy - aka heart disease.