Thread: L-Carnitine
View Single Post
  #2   ^
Old Tue, Jul-04-17, 18:53
VLC.MD VLC.MD is offline
Registered Member
Posts: 220
 
Plan: Atkins/LCHF
Stats: 209/185/185 Male 69
BF:reducing
Progress: 100%
Location: Toronto, Canada
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by SKOL
L-Carnitine?


Never heard of it.
I'm not sure it works.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12378044

Effect of L-carnitine on weight loss and body composition of rats fed a hypocaloric diet.

CONCLUSIONS:
The rat model used here did not show a positive effect of L-carnitine supplementation on weight loss and body composition of rats fed an energy-deficient diet. The animals' endogenous carnitine synthesis was obviously adequate to ensure efficient beta-oxidation of fatty acids during the catabolic phase.

In general it sounds safe, but if it is expensive for you, you might want to spend the money on good food, not on pills.
Reply With Quote