Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Does it make, does it have a caffeine effect or is it like totally different?

And what about in terms of like, you say taking in the morning just to be safe, but like if you're wanting a performance enhancement.

You can take it at night, no problem.

So it's like something that's in your system for a certain amount of time.

It doesn't have to be like right before you work out.

To date, we don't.

Well, 150 milligrams, I guess I'm going to try that out and see.

I kind of want a little performance enhancement in my, especially in my strength training, my CrossFit stuff.

Okay.

You mentioned the beta alanine.

I want to get to that in a minute.

But before, because we're kind of talking about performance enhancement, there's this whole...

category of these blood flow enhancers.

Oh, yeah.

And there's like, so the beetroot juice, beetroot extract, and then there's the citrulline, arginine.

So I'd heard of the beetroot juice and, you know, these nitric oxide boosters, but the citrulline and arginine are something that I haven't really...

I mean, Argenine I know about for blood pressure, but not for this performance enhancement.

And so I'm wondering endurance type of exercise or high rep type of exercise.

I mean, is this something that actually can make a difference in someone that's already well-trained?

Is it like not well-trained people?