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Acetyl L-Carnitine 500 mg
L-Carnitine is the body's great metabolism, brain and energy enhancer!
Pharmaceutical Grade - Exp date: 04/2010
- Enhances physical and athletic performance
- Supports healthy aging and helps maintain a healthy heart!
- Promotes brain wellness
- Assists in weight management
- Crucial for the body's energy production
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Introduction
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Brain Wellness |
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The primary role of L-Carnitine in the body is to transport long chain fatty acids into the mitochondria or "furnace" of the cell. There the fatty acids are "burned" to produce energy for the cell from fat!
Extensive research has shown the effectiveness of L-Carnitine in applications such as exercise, heart health, weight management, brain wellness and even infant nutrition!
L-Carnitine supplementation can help you lead a quality and healthy life from infancy to the "Golden Years". The most popular applications for L-Carnitine are addressed in this listing.
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Acetyl L-Carnitine is found throughout the central nervous system and can be beneficial in maintaining healthy brain function and all that this implies. The acetyl derivative of L-Carnitine (ALC) plays a role in in central nervous system metabolism as a source for raw materials for the synthesis of acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter vital to proper brain function) and for energy producing reactions. ALC is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier. Thus ALC has additional applications to "regular" L-Carnitine and has found a suitable nich in "brain food" products.
ALC has a variety of properites that include restorative or even protective actions against aging processes and neurodegeneration. In more simple terms, this means that ALC has a vital role in maintainting brain function as we age. In fact, numerous sound clinical sutdies have shown that ALC supplementation may help in reducing mental decline under certain conditions.
Recent research showed that when supplemented with a combination of L-Carnitine and Alpha Lipoic Acid, aged rats perform better than usual on memory tests and show marked improvements in their level of activity. These results further support a role of ALC in maintaining brain function as we age. |
Sports Nutrition
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Cardiovascular Health |
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Young and older adults eager to get and stay fit will benefit from L-Carnitine Supplementation. L-Carnitine will improve your physical and mental performance, delay the onset of sports fatigue, plus reduce recovery time and muscle damage.
Fat and carbohydrate are the pirmary fuels used to meet the energy demands for physical exercise. In addition to supporting the cardiovascular system and promoting a healthier weight, L-Carnitine's fundamental role in fat metabolsim may result in multiple benefits for athletes and physically active people.
Performance: L-Carnitine supplementation increased the peak treadmill running speed in marathon runners and increased VO2max in cyclists and long distance walkers. Positive effects on VO2max are good news because it is one of the most important measures of a person's ability to perform high intensity exercise for longer than 4 to 5 minutes.
Fatigue: Early onset of fatigue during exercise performance is detrimental to both the high performance athlete and the physically active person. Two factors can cause fatigue during exercise. Lactic acid accumulation and muscle glycogen depletion. Research indicates that L-Carnitine supplementation decreases lactic acid accumulation and spares glycogen. It therefore plays a role in delaying fatigue, as described by various research groups.
Recovery: The most recent clinical study opens new avenues in regard to a role for L-Carnitine apart from its classical muscle energetic function: daily L-Carnitine consumption prior to high intensity exercise significantly reduced muscle pain and decreased muscle damage in untrained subjects. In simple terms, this means that L-Carnitine supplementation can help in the recovery process. The protective effects might be partly due to enhancement of oxygen supply to the muscle via increased blood flow.
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Most people don't realize that the heart obtains 70% of its energy from fat breakdown. The fundamental role that L-Carnitine plays in energy metabolism, together with the dependence of the heart on fatty acid breakdown for energy production, make L-Carnitine a crucial energy provider for the heart. Scientific evidence has shown that L-Carnitine supplementation has beneficial effects in maintaining cardiovascular wellness.
Clinical data indicates that L-Carnitine supplementation can positvely support healthy heart muscle, can significatnly increase heart muscle viability and is beneficial in supporting a heatlhy heartbeat. Other clinical research data indicates that L-Carnitine supplementation is helpful in maintaining healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
It is important to bear in mind the the dietary supplment L-Carnitine is not recommended to treat cardiovascular disease which requires intervention by a health professional. However, clinical studies provide evidence that supplementary L-Carnitine may be beneficial in maintaining a healthy heart.
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Weight Management
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Healthy Aging |
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Obesity is a serious health problem in the United States, Canada and many European countries. L-Carnitine helps promote lean muscle mass, less fat deposition and a healthier body weight.
A number of studies have shown the beneficial effects of dietary L-Carnitine for weight management in both animals and humans. For example, Friedmann and colleagues suggest that a shortage of L-Carnitine in rats may increase food intake and another study showed that L-Carnitine fed obese dogs increased their lean muscle mass.
In obese adolescents, L-Carnitine supplementation promotes weight loss, decreases BMI and body fat content. When used in conjunction with a reduced calorie diet and moderate exerrcise, L-Carnitine supplementation resulted in a much greater loss in body weight in obese people, a decrease in low density lipoprotein (LDL) and blood sugar levels and a reduction in blood pressure.
It is important to bear in mind that the dietary supplement L-Carnitine is not recommended to treat obesity. This is a disease that requires intervention by a health professional. However, clinical studies provide evidence that supplementary L-Carnitine may contribute to optimal fat oxidation and along with dietary changes and exercise, L-Carnitine supplementation may promote a healthier body weight. It, therefore, can be an important part of a healthy weight management program for individuals concerned about their weight.
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With a two fold increase in the world's elderly predicted between 1998 and 2025, interest in aging has greatly accelerated. Maintaining good quality of life as we age is important. L-Carnitine is the supplement of choice to help maintain good health.
Elderly people have a lower energy demand and eating habits change with age. For example, they usually consume less meat. At the same time, the dietary intake of both L-Carnitine and the nutrients required to make L-Carnitine is reduced. A decreased endogenous synthesis could also be shown by researchers. A decrease of L-Carnitine in various body compartments with age has often been described in the literature. The resulting reduction in energy metabolsim due to lower L-Carnitine levels can be restored by L-Carnitine supplementation. Two months of L-Carnitine administration (2 grams per day) was shown to partly reverse age related changes of oxidative metabolism in elderly women.
Aging induces several structural and functional changes in the brain. Blood supply to the brain decreases with age. The number of neurons diminishes. An imbalance caused by increased production of free radicals and decreased functional efficienty of the antioxidant system has been suggested to be one of the primary factors that contribute to the aging process. Supplementation with 4 grams of L-Carnitine per day resulted in signifcantly improved mental status in elderly people, compared with the placebo group, assessed by means of the Wesseley and Powell scale.
L-Carnitine can be regarded as the ideal nutrient for a long life, as it comprises all the benefits that seniors need to stay fit and healthy in both mind and body.
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Shipping
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To Place an Order
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Shipping is calculated by weight with 1 service from USPS for domestic mail (Priority) and most international destinations (International Priority).
This item can not be shipped to Germany or any other EU country that requires a prescription for this item. |
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Robert Jordan
Acetyl L-Carnitine
2620 Newcastle Dr
Carrollton, TX 75007-1944
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Comparison of Nature's Purest Quality and Price to 3 Well
Known National Brands
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Brand
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MG
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Number
of Capsules
or Tabs
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Pharmaceutical Grade
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Price
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Cost
per
500 mg
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Life
Extension
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500
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100
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No
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$44.25
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$0.44
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NOW
Foods
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500
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100
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No
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$19.99
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$0.19
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Source
Naturals
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250
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120
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No
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$18.63
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$0.31
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Nature's Purest
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500
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120
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Yes
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$14.95
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$0.12
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The FDA has not reviewed the information provided in this listing.
This supplement is not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any disease.
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