The all-rounder that can not only accelerate your fat loss, but also increase your athletic performance, accelerate your recovery and support your muscle building, as well as has a variety of health benefits.
Product Highlights
- Increasing muscle endurance and delaying the onset of fatigue.
- Increased training performance due to greatly increased use of fatty acids for energy production during training
- Improved blood flow to the muscles and increased delivery of oxygen, nutrients and endogenous anabolic hormones to your hungry, hard-working muscles
- Acceleration and improvement of recovery through a reduction of training-induced muscle damage and a pronounced antioxidant effect
- Reduction of muscle soreness after exercise
- Increase in androgen receptor density for increased muscle development
- Support and promotion of fat loss
- Promotion of cardiovascular health
- Improvement of insulin sensitivity and reduction of diabetes risk
- Support liver function
- Improve sperm quality and alleviate erectile dysfunction.
What is Acetyl L-Carnitine?
L-carnitine is a non-essential amino acid that your body can produce itself - at least in certain quantities - from the amino acids lysine and methionine. However, this production is not sufficient to cover an increased carnitine requirement, as it can occur, for example, with intensively training athletes.
L-carnitine is involved in a variety of important processes in the body, the best known of which is the transport of fatty acids from the fat cells to the mitochondria, where these fatty acids are burned for the purpose of energy supply. However, L-carnithine has a variety of other benefits that are highly interesting not only for athletic performance, regeneration and muscle building, but also for many aspects of health.
Why does acetyl L-carnitine do so much better than regular L-carnitine?
As the name already suggests, acetyl L-carnitine is a form of carnitine - more precisely, an esterified L-carnitine molecule. Due to this esterification, acetyl L-carnitine has a much better fat solubility and can therefore be absorbed in the intestine faster and better than regular L-carnitine.
In addition to this, acetyl L-carnitine can be transported better and more easily via the intestine from the liver into the bloodstream and other parts of the body, which becomes particularly important with increasing age, when this onward transport functions worse and more poorly with regular L-carnitine.
What are the benefits of acetyl L-carnitine for athletes?
Increasing athletic performance:
Acetyl-L-Carnitine can enhance athletic performance through several mechanisms that can significantly increase the stamina of your muscles and delay the onset of fatigue, allowing you to perform more repetitions per set and more endurance training before you run out of juice.
This is due in part to the fact that carnitine can reduce both ammonia production in response to intense exercise (1) and lactate production (2). Both increased lactate levels and increased ammonia levels promote the onset of muscle fatigue, which is why reducing these levels can significantly increase exercise performance during resistance training (2) and endurance training.
In addition to this, L-carnitine supplementation results in up to 50% increased fat burning and significantly increased energy production via an increase in muscle carnitine levels, which results in a significant reduction in fatigue (3) and preserves muscle glycogen reserves. This effect seems to be particularly pronounced after depletion of muscle glycogen reserves (4), so that even when glycogen stores are depleted, intense training continues to be possible.
In addition, L-Carnitine can increase the blood supply and thus the supply of oxygen, much-needed nutrients and endogenous anabolic hormones via better blood flow to your muscles (5), which will of course also have a positive effect on your muscle performance. This increased blood flow is due to increased nitric oxide production (6), which comes from an increase in plasma nitrate levels (7).
Improvement and acceleration of regeneration:
Acetyl-L-carnitine can speed up your post-workout recovery through a number of mechanisms. This begins with a significant reduction in exercise-induced muscle damage (8, 11), allowing for faster recovery because there is simply less to repair.
In addition, it has a pronounced antioxidant effect that neutralizes free radicals (8, 9), which are produced to an increased extent during intensive training sessions as waste products of energy metabolism. These free radicals can damage muscle cells and genetic material and significantly prolong the duration of recovery. This antioxidant effect comes about through a significant increase in the levels of the 3 strongest endogenous antioxidant enzymes glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase and catalase (10) - and this already after the first intake! In addition to this, Acetyl-L-Carnitine can significantly reduce muscle soreness after exercise (11).
Promote muscle building:
Of course, increased performance and faster recovery can allow you to do more frequent, intense workouts, which will result in an increased stimulus for muscle building. In addition to this, L-carnitine can also increase androgen receptor density in your muscles (12), allowing your body's own anabolic hormones to have a stronger muscle-building effect. Such a muscle-building effect has even been observed in older people who were only doing light training (13).
Support fat loss:
Without L-carnitine, your body cannot transport fatty acids from the fat cells to the mitochondria where they are burned, which means that your fat loss will be severely limited if your body lacks L-carnitine. In addition, L-carnitine activates the enzymes of the respiratory chain, which are responsible for energy production from fatty acids.
Scientific studies show that L-carnitine supports both the release of fatty acids from fat cells and their burning (14), and that supplementation with L-carnitine results in increased burning of long-chain fatty acids (15)