Carnitine

Last week your trainer hyped it as a workout recovery supplement. Then yesterday your co-worker raved about its fat-torching prowess. Rumor has it L-carnitine is a fat-burning, brain-boosting, performance-enhancing machine of a supplement. But is it all it’s cracked up to be - Greatist

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Carnitine – Fat Burner or Supplement Myth? The Misunderstood Fat Transporter

L-Carnitine is an ingredient that has been on the market for decades, most commonly sold as a liquid where users take “carnitine shots” in hopes of burning more fat. It’s mostly sold as L-Carnitine, Acetyl-L-Carnitine, and L-Carnitine-L-Tartrate. In the end, all versions get metabolized down to the base form of carnitine. Carnitine products leave a lot to be desired, and their simple formulations show how manufacturers have not taken the time to actually learn if and how carnitine supplementation can be beneficial.

Let’s first start with how carnitine works in the body naturally – not via supplementation. Carnitine exists in all of us, and is a transporter of long-chain fatty acids…

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 Carnitine – Fat Burner or Supplement Myth? The Misunderstood Fat Transporter

L-Carnitine is an ingredient that has been on the market for decades, most commonly sold as a liquid where users take “carnitine shots” in hopes of burning more fat.

5 Benefits of L-Carnitine

The weight loss struggle is real. If losing weight were just a matter of avoiding temptation and getting to the gym every day, a lot of us would be much closer to our weight loss goals. But when a month’s worth of rabbit food and hours spent at the gym yield nothing but frustration, scouring the Internet for magic pills begins to seem like viable option, doesn’t it? Before you go wasting your money on magic pills and false promises, we recommend that you try L-carnitine weight loss supplement.

Examine

L-Carnitine and its many forms are useful in liver diseases, as well depression, metabolic health, and potentially many other things. L-Carnitine is often used for fat loss, but its usefulness is questionable.

Linus Pauling Institute

Our body produces L-carnitine from the essential amino acid lysine via a specific biosynthetic pathway. Healthy individuals, including strict vegetarians, generally synthesize enough L-carnitine to prevent deficiency.

NIH

Carnitine, derived from an amino acid, is found in nearly all cells of the body. Its name is derived from the Latin carnus or flesh, as the compound was isolated from meat. Carnitine is the generic term for a number of compounds that include L-carnitine, acetyl-L-carnitine, and propionyl-L-carnitine

ScienceDirect

Carnitine is a naturally occurring compound that is essential for life and that is ingested in foods as well as synthesized in the body by the liver and kidneys.

The bright and the dark sides of L-carnitine supplementation: a systematic review

Prolonged LC supplementation in specific conditions may affect physical performance. On the other hand, LC supplementation elevates fasting plasma TMAO, compound supposed to be pro-atherogenic. Therefore, additional studies focusing on long-term supplementation and its longitudinal effect on the cardiovascular system are needed.

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