Arginine, Viral Replication, and Hematomas

I've got two great arginine stories. One of them was something stupid I did to a client years ago before I realized that arginine increases viral replication. And if you give someone a lot of arginine to make them more vascular while they're getting ready for a show and they've got something like herpes, guess what happens? They walk in one day and they've got this gigantic scab all over their face. I was going to say which type of herpes was it but obviously the one that gives you cold sores yeah well it was like cold sores on steroids it was one of those and at that point I went oh well where's the correlation here oh okay let's look in the research uh oh why don't you get off that and we'll give you some beetroot juice or something like that and add some lysine to counteract it I used to teach the students lysine for the lips so you just sort of remember it that way that's how I tried to get the students to remember it I give you a really good really good arginine story so years ago a buddy of mine that i was uh we had an apartment together and he went to uh see one of the girls that he was dating at the time and he had read in some research paper about 20 grams of arginine to increase growth hormone before you go to bed and so he took it and didn't realize that she was wanting to get a little bit fresh and so they got busy with it and he had a traumatic experience and he he comes over to the house and i'm sitting in a like in a lazy boy recliner watching TV, and he goes, hey, bro, I've got this problem. I go, what? He goes, I took 20 grams of arginine last night, and my girlfriend wanted to have sex, and we had sex. And I go, all right, what's the problem? He goes, well, look at this. And he whips out his ding-a-ling right in front of my face. I turn, and it's solid black, except that he's white. And so he's freaking out. He doesn't know what to do. He goes, what do I do? I go, bro, your wiener's going to fall off. You need to go to the hospital. So he goes to the hospital, and he's gone for a few hours. he comes back and he's like, oh man, I got a story for you. The nurse came in and she looked just like my grandmother and she asked me what I did and I told her and she goes, well, let's have a look at it. And he had basically busted a bunch of blood vessels and had a huge hematoma on his ding-a-ling. Which is a big bruise. And how do they fix it? They got to drain it. Yep. So imagine that. Someone coming at you with a 20 gauge.