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Nitro AKG is short for nitric oxide/arginine-alpha-ketoglutarate. It is a combination of substances that naturally helps you to build muscle tissue in a healthy fashion, as opposed to the unnatural metabolic steroid route. So what is special about this combination of molecules, and how exactly can it help you to look like Arnie or Sly Stallone as opposed to the much-loved John Candy or Oliver Hardy?The Benefits of Arginine: Muscle TissueArginine is an amino acid, and amino acids are absolutely essential if you want to build new muscle tissue. Those people that refer to 'muscle development' are not quite correct. They are forming new muscle tissue using the amino acids extracted from the proteins you eat. In order to build muscle bulk, you must take in amino acids in your diet.By feeding your metabolism directly with amino acids in the form of arginine, you provide the raw materials needed for the creation of muscle fiber and hence larger muscles. However, that is a very minor function of arginine in nitro-AKG, because you can also get massive amounts of amino acids from the proteins in your diet: the protein in chicken, for example, breaks down into carbohydrate (used for energy) and amino acids (used for muscle tissue). Significant amounts of protein are contained in all meats and also in a few vegetables such as soya bean and fungi.Of course, you do not just gain strength by building up muscle tissue. That is a function of the number of muscle fibers you have, by how much they can stretch and by how fast they can contract. Therefore, you not only have to take amino acids in your diet (from Nitro-AKG and proteins), but you must also exercise to get the blood flowing through these muscles.The Benefits of Arginine: Nitric OxideNitric oxide (NO) has the effect of relaxing the smooth muscles that form the walls of your blood vessels, and so enable them to expand more to hold a larger volume of blood. Sexual health drugs work the same way: the more relaxed the muscles forming the blood vessels the more blood flow there is, and hence resolving the problem for many men. Nitro AKG works the same way basically, and enables more blood to flow through your muscles and hence build them up faster than normal. So where does the NO come from in Nitro-AKG? It originates from the arginine - a group of enzymes referred to as the 'nitric oxide synthases' that enable the generation of NO (nitric oxide) from the arginine. Thus, your muscle tissue and the ability of your blood vessels to stretch, or dilate, to accommodate a greater blood flow are provided by arginine. What happens then? Keto-Glutarate and the Krebs CycleWell, so far we have discussed and explained the origins and functions of the Nitro and A (Arginine) of Nitro AKG. You might have been wondering about where the KG comes into the equation. The KG is keto-glutarate. This is a substance that plays a vital role in the Citric Acid Cycle, or Krebs Cycle, that is responsible for the generation of energy from oxygen and glucose. Without the KG (keto glutarate)you would be unable to create enrgy in your body and would thefore not be here - energy is needed for breathing, blood circulation and many other basic life processes as well as walking and running! So no KG, then no life! You can get ketoglutarate from the food you eat, but the bulk of what you need would have to be boosted if you want to build really strong muscle bulk.Summary To sum up then, the benefits that Nitro AKG offers you are:a) Arginine (the A of AKG) metabolizes to nitric oxide (NO) as well as providing a small amount of amino acids to help build muscle fibers. Its main function is to create nitric oxide that goes on to relax the smooth muscle walls of your blood vessels. This allows a larger supply of blood to reach your muscle tissue, so increasing the amount of muscle-building amino acids where they should be (hence 'Nitro-AKG). b) Then keto-glutarate plays its essential part in the Krebs Cycle to generate energy. So while an increased supply of blood to the muscles is promoted, so too is the energy generated by these muscles. And you really need no more than that!Increased muscle bulk, increased flow of blood to these muscles and the optimum force they are capable of producing through the effect of the keto-glutarate introduced into the Krebs Cycle. What more can you ask for. All through a little-known supplement known as alpha-ketoglutarate, or Nitro-AKG.
