What Tikva Users Have To Say



I have been taking these ingredients for over 1 year now.  It has been great!

My blood pressure went from 160/101 to 115/75.  My total cholesterol went from over 300 to 201.  This all happened in less than 6 months after taking these ingredients.  

Carter R.


My husband and I wanted to let you know what our experience with these ingredients has been, even at this early stage. This Wednesday marks 4 weeks on the drink.

Daniel is 42. His health is good except for the high blood pressure. He's been on Lisinopril and Indapam for about two years. He became a living zombie. It was a struggle for him some days to get the dishes washed and unload the dishwasher. He had almost every side effect listed for these drugs. In looking back, we realized that he is someone that is extremely sensitive to medicine and responds very quickly to them (either way).

We received the shipment on Wednesday, March 16th, and he began taking it. His energy began coming back the following Monday, and has remained (and gotten better).

On Friday, April 1 he had to stop taking the diuretic medicine because his blood pressure was dropping too low. Once this diuretic was stopped, everything leveled out within the target range.

He began having another symptom of skin rash/eczema and I got on the Internet to find out more about ACE inhibitors. Once we found out it was based on the venom of a Brazilian pit viper snake, the symptoms he's been experiencing were completely understandable.

He's now cut his ACE inhibitor in half, and is still in the target range on the blood pressure. We feel like that with a bit more time on the formula, he will be off of these medicines.

These ingredients have given me my husband back.

Thank you so much!

Best regards,
Ann and Dan R .


I am 45 years old and have been diagnosed with having high blood pressure (150 over 93). Because of my medical plan changing I have seen several different doctors, over a 2 year period, all are family practitioners. Each doctor prescribed different blood pressure medicine which I took and followed there direction. I saw no difference in my blood pressure. My biggest problem was with the side effects of each drug.

Then my life changed when I started taking these ingredients. I have seen my blood pressure drop to 125 over 79 in 2.5 months. I no longer take blood pressure prescription medication and my doctor considers my blood pressure to be normal, I agree. Thank you.

Brent M.


My mom died of a stroke at age fifty... My oldest brother died of a congenital heart problem at football practice at 16. My dad died at seventy of heart problems after suffering with bad circulation that limited, for many years, his ability to walk.

At age sixty I am 5' 9" and 163 lbs. I had been working out at a gym for six months and had all but eliminated alcohol. At an annual physical in early March, I was disappointed to learn that my blood pressure, for which I had been taking metoprolol, was 168/98.My doctor, an internal medicine guy who was tired of seeing his patients going down with heart attacks and strokes, made it clear that he viewed me as a "walking time bomb." Given the family history that I have to work with, it was impossible to argue and I put up only modest resistance when he prescribed Lipitor. Soon after I began taking these ingredients my daily readings began to go steadily down and the most recent lab results show:

LDL at 72 or one half of what it was a month ago

HDL 49, up 6 from a month ago

Triglycerides 82, down from 102

Blood pressure at 123/68.

My doctor was delighted. Me too. If the trend continues, he has promised to review the need for Lipitor and maybe even metoprolol. I will be one happy man to see those things go.

Regards,
Steve


Two months ago, despite swimming and jogging for an hour each day, my blood pressure was 187 over 98. I freaked. After using these ingredients for just 9 weeks now I am already down to 144/84. I know that it takes most people 3 months to get it down but I am very pleased so far.

Jack O


I have been using these ingredients for 2 1/2 months and my blood pressure has dropped from about 180/100 to an average of 125/80. This decrease occurred without other medication. My doctor wanted to put me on an ace-inhibitor medication but I decided to take these ingredients instead. I'm glad I did.

J Patterson


Hi. This is Heidi. My husband has been taking these ingredients. His blood pressure was 144/83. Not real high, but high enough to become a problem. His blood pressure now is averaging from 125 to 118. Well within normal range. He seems much more relaxed. I am convinced that this is helping him. It is just by a stroke of luck that I found your website. I am going to tell other people with similar conditions.

We are still working on losing the weight, but that takes a little time.

Thank you, and take care,

Heidi D.


In December 2005, during a physical my blood pressure was 149/95. My cholesterol was 267. I was headed for a stroke. My wife's physician had suggested liquid arginine for high blood pressure and she found these ingredients on the internet.

My blood pressure is now a perfect 120/80 and my cholesterol is down to 222 so far. My doctor is so pleased that he decided to keep me OFF the medications.

Thanks,
Rick


My 81 year old mom got her 6 month check up from her doctor today and her blood pressure was 120 over 75, and he said whatever you are doing keep doing it. I asked her did you tell him about the ingredients you are taking. She said nope, she was afraid to, afraid that he would get mad at her….isn’t that something.
 
Well let me back up a little. Back in late October of 2006 my mom was very sick. She could barely stand up without passing out and you could forget going up stairs. We took her to her doctor and he had an ambulance take her right to the hospital with a blood pressure approaching 200 over 120+. So they did the little trick where they go up the leg and found her to be 90% blocked all over. They discussed open heart surgery but were concerned because the veins they would use in her legs were too small. Well she said no, she wanted to wait until after Christmas (in case it was her last) so she could spend it with her grand kids. That is when I put her on these ingredients.
 
Well the doctor’s office called her in January and told her she needed to get the angioplasty done. She said no I feel a whole lot better now with my blood pressure down to around the 140 over 80s range. So they talked her into going back up the leg to take a another look and this time at the very most she was only 40% blocked just in one spot, so they put in a stint (which I don’t think was necessary).
 
Well I just wanted to say thanks for adding a few more years to my mom’s life! I kind of like having her around.
 
Ted



L - Arginine (Ahr'juh-neen)

Lower High Blood Pressure
Lower High Cholesterol
Relieving Angina
Boosting Immunity
Aid in Erectile Dysfunction

 

 

What Is It?

L-arginine is a semi-essential amino acid that has numerous functions in the body. It helps dispose of ammonia, is used to make compounds in the body such as nitric oxide, creatine, L-glutamate, L-proline, and can be converted to glucose and glycogen if needed.

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Health Benefits

Reducing high blood pressure

Arginine-derived nitric oxide created by the endothelial cells lining your arteries is now known to be the principal blood pressure regulator of the body.

Once produced and released by the endothelium, nitric oxide causes the arterial smooth muscles making up the vessel walls to relax, enlarging the interior diameter of the artery, and ultimately letting more blood flow through.

A study which was first presented in November 1997 at the American Heart Association's 70th Scientific session and later published in Circulation, looked at patients ranging in age between thirty and seventy and suffering mild to moderate hypertension (ie., blood pressure greater than 160/90 mm Hg). The researchers found that an oral arginine supplement of 2,000 milligrams per day worked to lower their blood pressure significantly.

One study that appeared in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in 1998 looked at fourteen patients in Italy newly diagnosed with borderline high blood pressure. The researchers found that it took only two grams a day of L-arginine administered orally for a week to trigger nearly twenty point drops in systolic blood pressure - a fact they credited to l-arginine's ability to improve endothelial function.

-Robert Fried, Ph.D., and Woodson C. Merrell, M.D., The Arginine Solution (Warner Books, 1999)

Lowering cholesterol

Arginine also appears to benefit individuals with high cholesterol. In 1997, Stanford researchers showed that in people with elevated cholesterol, arginine reduced the tendency of blood platelets to clump, potentially lessening the risk of heart attacks and strokes. An earlier study at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore found that two weeks of arginine therapy reduced total and LDL ("bad") cholesterol but had no effect on HDL ("good") cholesterol in healthy elderly volunteers.

 

Relieving angina

A 1998 Mayo Clinic study found that patients with early heart disease who took arginine supplements for six months had better blood flow to the heart and less angina compared with a placebo group. And Polish scientists showed that arginine increased the exercise capacity of patients with angina who had had a heart attack."

-Robert Fried, Ph.D., and Woodson C. Merrell, M.D., The Arginine Solution (Warner Books, 1999)

Boost Immunity

"Preliminary evidence suggests that the supplement (arginine) may also boost immunity, reverse impotence, and forestall many of the complications of diabetes. For example, it is known that the immune system can kill infectious microbes, from Salmonella to Chlamydia, by emitting a puff of nitric oxide.

Several studies have now shown that arginine supplements can activate the immune system and spur wound healing after surgery or trauma.

-Wholehealthmd.com

Aid in Erectile Dysfunction

The amino acid arginine promotes natural nitric oxide production in the body. By enhancing nitric oxide and subsequent cyclic GMP synthesis, arginine enlarges blood vessels in the corpus cavernosum that can lead to enhanced sensation and penile erection. Arginine is given to prize race horses at stud to improve the frequency of their sexual encounters, and to improve the quality of their sperm.

Like the new prescription potency drug Viagra, arginine works to boost cyclic GMP levels. Arginine causes the production of nitric oxide that leads to increased levels of cyclic GMP. The longer that cyclic GMP levels are maintained, the better the chance of achieving and maintaining an erection. (One benefit of arginine supplementation is that it is much less costly than Viagra.)

The dose of arginine needed to enhance sexual function has been estimated to be between 6 and 12 grams a day.

-Life Extension Foundation

Diabetes

Finally, arginine blood levels are often reduced in diabetes, and some evidence suggests that arginine can slow the progression of atherosclerosis in those with the disease. It should not, however, be taken by people with diabetic retinopathy."

-Wholehealthmd.com


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General

“In the field of medicine and health it is one of the revolutions of our time: the discovery that the amino acid L-arginine may be a ‘magic bullet’ for the cardiovascular system. A virtual arterial cleanser, ARGININE helps eliminate blockage and maintains blood flow.

”“Oral ARGININE taken regularly has time and time again proven its ability to lower cholesterol, prevent LDL oxidation by free radicals, restore endothelial function, normalize blood-vessel dilation, reduce platelet stickiness, and generally tune up your cardiovascular system.”

-Woodson Merrell, M.D., Columbia University Medical School
Dr. Robert Fried, PhD., Senior Professor of Biopsychology at Hunter College, Columbia Univ. NY

L-ARGININE is a safe, effective, and inexpensive means of self-care that boosts immunity, sexual potency, and general well-being."

-Harold Bloomfield, M.D.

• 7 grams of L-arginine per day improved blood flow in men, aged 55 to 77, with elevated serum cholesterol and early coronary artery disease.

-Circulation

• L-arginine supplementation reduced pathological increases in the thickness of plaque lined vessel walls in people with elevated cholesterol and artherosclerosis.

-Circulation

• Arginine lowered plasma cholesterol levels in patients with advanced hypertension.

-New England Journal of Medicine

• Arginine infusion has the same effect in cardiovascular patients as cholesterol-lowering drugs. -The Lancet • 7 grams of L-arginine improved blood-vessel relaxation in young men with elevated serum cholesterol and coronary artery disease (in as few as 3 days).

-Circulation

In the best selling book “The Cardiovascular Cure,” the author John Cooke, Ph.D. states that arginine derived nitric oxide (ADNO):

• Keeps blood vessels pliable and elastic

• Keeps blood flowing smoothly

• Keeps platelets calm and prevents them from sticking to the vessel wall

• Keeps white blood cells calm and prevents them from sticking to the vessel wall

• Reduces growth and multiplication of muscle cells that thicken the vessel wall

• Slows plaque growth and suppresses atherosclerosis

• May melt away plaque that already exists

To date arginine has been shown in animal as well as human trials that it may be effective in the following:

• Decreasing and reversing atherosclerosis by decreasing intimal thickening and monocyte accumulation 9,10,11,12,13,14

 • Restore normal endothelial function in hypercholesterolemia 14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21

 • Reversing consequences of coronary artery disease 22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30

• Decreasing cholesterol and triglycerides 32

• Improves walking distance in peripheral vascular disease 31,33,34,35,36

• Improves pain in interstitial cystitis 37,38

• Prolonged administration of arginine reverses adverse effects of high blood pressure 39,40,41,42

• Decreases high blood pressure 43

• Decreases post operative infection and length of stay 44

• Increases human growth hormone 45,46,47,48,49,50,116

 • Improves outcome after bypass surgery 51

 • Improves sexual function 52

 • Improves exercise tolerance 53,54

• Improves renal function 55,56,57,58,59,60

• Improves glucose uptake in muscle cells 61

• Improves asthma 61,62,63,64,65,66

• Improves cell mediated immunity 67,68,69,70,71

• Improves pituitary responsiveness and modulates hormonal control 72,73,74

• Improves muscle performance 75

• Improves diabetes and reverses damage 76,77,78,79

 • May prevent diabetes 78

• Reduces blood clots and strokes 80,81,82

• Helps prevent restenosis after angioplasty and bypass 83,84,85

• Helps prevent post surgical damage after intestinal manipulation 86

 • May improve irritable bowel syndrome 87

• Improves osteoporosis 88

• May improve prostate function 89

• May give protection against size of heart attack 90

• Helps protect in cardiac transplants 91,92

• Improve scleroderma 93

• Improve sickle cell disease 94

• Prevent pre-eclampsia 95

• Improves exercise capacity in pulmonary hypertension 96,117,118

 • Improves wound healing 97,98,99

• Reduces ulcers 101,102

• Improves peripheral vascular disease 103,104

• Improves outcome in sepsis 105

• Improves conditions of heart failure 106

 • Improves outcome of cancer treatment 107,108

• Improve alzheimer’s 109,110,111,112

• Improves memory and cognitive functions 113,114,115

• L-arginine has been shown to safe in the above studies as well as others 100,116

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