Each and every cell has its own energy-producing factories. These factories are called mitochondria.

Carnitine helps mitochondria in several different ways. Most importantly, it transports fatty acids into the mitochondria, where they are burned to produce energy. This provides energy to all your cells and, at the same time, helps you to lose excess fat or maintain an ideal body weight.

Fatigue is the most common complaint doctors hear about today. Often, being tired is nothing more than a carnitine deficiency. Without carnitine, nothing in your body will work as it should.

Acetyl-L-Carnitine is a special form of carnitine that has the ability to pass through the blood-brain barrier (a shield that protects the brain from many substances found in the bloodstream). Once inside the brain, it nourishes the brain cells’ mitochondria.

Acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALC) improves mental focus and learning ability. People report less confusion and brain fog, enhanced alertness and feeling mentally sharper within hours of taking ALC.

By promoting the biosynthesis of the key neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, ALC enhances cognitive ability, mood, focus and memory.

Age-related decline in memory is related to a decrease in nerve mitochondrial activity. ALC, especially together with an R-Lipoic Acid, reverses age-related memory decline. ALC improves both short and long-term memory.

Without enough energy, brain cells die, and some are impossible to replace. Bit there are many other ways in which ALC protects neurons.

It removes damaged fats from the brain (damaged fats are one of the key signs of aging). It increases levels of nerve growth factor (NGF), a brain-healing compound, and it also increases the body’s ability to use NGF effectively.
With aging, brain cells normally begin to lose receptors. Receptors are what allow one neuron to communicate with another (as in thinking). ALC diminishes loss of these receptors.

ALC helps damaged neurons recover. Stroke patients recover faster and better on 1500 mg of ALC per day. ALC’s positive effects on the brain make it useful to protect against the neurotoxic effects of alcohol, prescription drugs, damage from MSG and aspartame, diabetic nerve degeneration, and Alzheimer’s. Two grams per day improved responsiveness levels in Alzheimer’s patients.

Stress is one of the factors that damages brain cells, and cortisol is the primary stress hormone. ALC seems to normalize cortisol levels, reducing them where they are elevated and raising them where they are too low.

And, to top it all off, ALC increases melatonin, a hormone which helps you sleep and tends to decline with age. At around the age of 40, we start making less and less. This is one of the reasons that people tend to become less energetic and more forgetful and gain weight as they age.

Alpha-Lipoic Acid works hand-in-hand with ALC because it, too, passes the blood-brain barrier. The effects of lipoic acid enhance the effects of ALC, and vice versa. Lipoic acid helps to chelate (attaches to and unbinds) metals from the brain neurons.