Spot injections with L-Carnitine?

[granby140]

I read in a Muscular Development mag that this was supposed to reduce fat in the area injected. Does anyone have any experience and thought on this practice? Thanks for any respsonses.

 

[Andy13]

No. I'd like to see the article.. My first assumption is that the author is ill-informed.


L-C facilitates fatty acid oxidation in cells to produce energy; it does not cause fat cells to release fatty acids into the blood(lipolosis) as epinephrine would.

When you reduce your cals and diet, your fat cells don't suddenly become metabolic tyrants and auto-oxidize internal fat stores..

What really happens is that the fatty acids stored in the fat cells are released into the blood, where they can be used by cells with higher energy demand such as muscle cells. Muscle cells require much more energy than fat cells...

Andy

 

[macrophage69alpha]

NOPE....

there are several studies that show with massive increases of l-carnitine..3 fold... only minimal fatty acid mobilization increase..

only with carnitine deficiency will there be noticable effects...

acetyl-l-carnitine.. on the other hand .. while have little direct lipolytic effect.. improves a number of neuronal deficits.. that should lead to an overall metabolic increase (though effects much better in the 25-30+ crowd..)

 

[macrophage69alpha]

btw- the only people that have been pimping this are sources.. and this was recently confirmed (btw- scammer sources)