A Bounty of Benefits From A Simple Amino Acid
Finally, a natural way to increase energy, slow aging, aid weight loss weight, increase mental alertness, improve your heart health and more.
L-carnitine is a naturally occurring nutrient in the form of an amino acid. With 500 milligrams each day (approximately) you could make a real improvement in your overall health. Sound simple? It is. Read on to find out more.
From: Dr. Sears’ Health Alert
If you could burn fat, improve your heart, and boost your energy by taking one pill would you do it? I’m not talking about a new diet drug – or any other medication for that matter. Today I’ll tell you about the amino acid L-carnitine.
7 Reasons to take L-carnitine
L-carnitine plays an essential role in maintaining a healthy body. Here are a few examples of what this natural nutrient does.
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Slows Aging. Carnitine shuttles fatty acids into the energy centers of the cells, where the fat can be burned to produce energy. When the body has sufficient carnitine reserves, the cells can burn more fat and generate more energy. Every cell in your body works better when it has optimal energy available to it. |
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Helps you lose weight. Carnitine is important in weight loss because it helps convert body fat into fuel. It also raises levels of certain enzymes needed to metabolize sugars, starches and other carbohydrates. |
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Increases mental alertness. L-carnitine converts to acetyl- L-carnitine. ALC enhances brain activity. It also prevents brain-cell death and protects nerve cells from degeneration due to aging or disease. |
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Protects your heart. L-carnitine reduces arterial plaque, lowers LDL cholesterol, and increases HDL levels. These benefits appear in healthy people as well as in patients with heart disease. |
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Boost potency in men. Sperm count, motility, and maturation are related to carnitine concentrations. Supplementation with carnitine improves sperm quality and/or quantity. |
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Enhances exercise. Carnitine improves sports performance and endurance, and reduces the damage caused to the body that can occur during exercise. |
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Improves diabetes. Test data suggest that supplementing with L-carnitine can improve insulin sensitivity in individuals with type 2 diabetes. |
Where to get it?
Unless you eat a diet high in red meat and dairy, it can be difficult to obtain optimal amounts of carnitine from dietary sources alone. Perhaps the best solution is to take it as a supplement. You can get all you need in one capsule, once a day.
I take 500 milligrams of the L-carnitine form. It is important that you choose naturally occurring L-carnitine and not synthetic D, L-carnitine. The D-form interferes with the natural action of the L-carnitine.
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears M.D.
L-Carnitine
Nagoyua, Japan
L-carnitine supplementation helps reduce age-related, oxidative DNA damage in the brain, according to a study published in the January 2005 issue of Experimental Neurology (191, 1:33-40) (www.sciencedirect.com).
Researchers from Nagoyua University Graduate School of Medicine measured the activities of antioxidant enzymes, the levels of nucleic acids and the extent of DNA damage in the cortex, hippocampus, striatum, hypothalamus and cerebellum of your (four months) and old (24 months) rats given L-carnitine for either seven, 14 or 21 days. Brain regions with lower antioxidant activity are highly susceptible to oxidative DNA damage, which is a key factor in the aging proce3sss, according to the scientists. The study results showed L-carnitine showed L-carnitine enhanced nucleic acid, antioxidant level activity in the older rats supplementing for 21 days. No significant change in activity was found in either the shorter supplementation periods or at all in the younger rats. The research concluded L-carnitine supplementation prevents age-related DNA damage, confirming the supplement's neuroprotective action against aging.
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