Like L-carnitine, acetyl-L- carnitine functions as an antioxidant and promotes the production of glutathione.
This led to a rare method-of-use patent for Immunocal as an anti-cancer agent, not only a significant achievement for a natural product, but the only one of its kind
Deficiency can be due to inadequate dietary intake, especially in vegans, but is otherwise more likely due to problems with absorption, which is more complex than that of other vitamins
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Post-meal walks: 10 to 20 minutes of walking after lunch and dinner blunts the glucose and triglyceride spikes from meals, reducing the substrate that would otherwise be stored as visceral fat
(Article in Japanese) Shimizu Y, Kusano H