L-Arginine and Reduced Heart Rate

• Acute effects of l-arginine intake on heart rate variability after a submaximal exercise test in healthy men: randomized clinical trial.

  • 2025-08
  • RCT
  • Nitric oxide : biology and chemistry 157
  • • Andrey Alves Porto
    • Luana Almeida Gonzaga
    • Rayana Loch Gomes
    • Bruno M Candeloro
    • Rodrigo Daminello Raimundo
    • Luiz Carlos Marques Vanderlei
    • Vitor Engrácia Valenti

  • PubMed: 40389021
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2025.05.003

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Heart Rate

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  no statistically significant differences were found between the L-ARG and placebo conditions for any HRV or hemodynamic outcome

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  3 g

• Effects of Different Dietary Supplements on Swimming Performance: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.

  • 2024-12-26
  • Systematic Review
  • Nutrients 17(1)
  • • Dongxiang Huang
    • Xiaobing Wang
    • Hideki Takagi
    • Shiwei Mo
    • Zhongzheng Wang
    • Daniel Hung-Kay Chow
    • Bo Huang

  • PubMed: 39796467
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu17010033

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Heart Rate

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  No prominent differences were noted among the interventions in 50 m time, 200 m time, heart rate, and body mass.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No