{"id":81,"date":"2008-12-12T11:49:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/lcarnitine.php"},"modified":"2015-02-23T13:23:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:23:23","slug":"lcarnitine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/lcarnitine\/","title":{"rendered":"L-Carnitine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An essential metabolite derived from the amino acids lysine and methionine.\u00a0 Carnitine is\u00a0frequently added to weight\u00a0loss supplements due to its\u00a0critical role in <a href=\"http:\/\/guweb2.gonzaga.edu\/faculty\/cronk\/CHEM445\/fatty-acid-metabolism-essentials.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beta-oxidation<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the process of turning long-chain fatty acids into energy.\u00a0 Supplemental carnitine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/15281008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/10861338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may not<\/a>\u00a0boost fat oxidation (the data is conflicting)\u00a0&#8211; however it&#8217;s a moot point as weight loss supplements rarely provide\u00a0more than just\u00a0trace amounts, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Carnitine supplements may have some value, however, for general health and disease prevention.\u00a0 Carnitine (in the form of l-carnitine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/acetyllcarnitine\/\" target=\"_blank\">acetyl-l-carnitine<\/a>\u00a0or propionyl-l-carnitine)\u00a0may\u00a0be beneficial for\u00a0a range of conditions, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16407731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heart\u00a0disease<\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17392136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">male fertility<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/15072869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual health<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18491985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">age-related cognitive impairment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See Paul&#8217;s article:\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/Carnitine-Review.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carnitine Review: Does Carnitine Burn Fat?<\/a>&#8221; for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essential metabolite derived from the amino acids lysine and methionine.\u00a0 Carnitine is\u00a0frequently added to weight\u00a0loss supplements due to its\u00a0critical role in beta-oxidation\u00a0&#8211; the process of turning long-chain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[66,226,228,229,289,369,434,584,803,874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}