Dr. Rhonda Patrick

I mean, it affects blood pressure, presumably, right?

I think I remember reading studies about that years ago on at least beetroot.

Do you have a preference to citrulline versus beetroot?

Yeah.

What about just baking some beets?

Would you get a similar effect or would it not be concentrated enough?

In a smoothie or something?

Now, you said arginine has fallen out of favor.

Why is that?

Okay, got it.

Yeah, the arginine is used for viral replication.

I thought that was kind of interesting.

I mean, I've never tried, but...

I was reading a little bit about the cold sore thing.

I guess if someone has herpes, cold sores or whatever, that might flare them up or something.

But I'm going to try the beetroot.

It's totally worth it.

I experimented with it like 10 years ago for blood pressure and I was giving it to my mom.

But I just – at the time, I was more low carb and I couldn't find –

a quality source i'm sure now it's probably there's like great sources of it but um yeah so now i think i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna go back circle back and try it try it out again i love how you experiment on your mom that's great