What is L-Carnitine & What is it’s Biggest Benefit? – Dr.Berg

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this video is a summary video on l-carnitine what is it and what’s the most important use of l-carnitine it’s an amino acid that transports fat into the mitochondria the mitochondria is the energy Factory in all of your cells it produces the energy currency called ATP and l-carnitine also will handle some of the waste that’s generated from the fat that’s being oxidized now since its job is to transport fat into the oven sort of speak for burning people take it to lose weight okay they take it to develop more energy while they’re working out they get more endurance they have better recovery if they’re exercising so these are the main reasons why people consume this but there’s actually a bigger reason that I’m going to talk about most of your cells okay contain between 500 and 2,000 mitochondria but the heart cell has 5,000 mitochondria that’s incredible that’s a lot of mitochondria now the interesting thing about the heart muscle that’s different than the skeletal muscle is it doesn’t have a glycogen reserve and when you burn fat most of that fat turns into free fatty acids and only 40 percent of it turns into ketones so when we talk about fat burning we’re not talking about just ketones we’re also talking about fatty acids and the heart loves fatty acids in fact it runs in fatty acids it runs on other things like lactate and ketones but it loves fatty acids so it needs l-carnitine to transport these fatty acids into the machinery to burn for its energy so if you have a congestive heart failure or you have some arrhythmia problem with the heart or any type of heart damage this product is what you would want to consume in addition to coenzyme q-10 those two are dynamite for the heart as they age they make less and less carnitine and also as they age they cannot digest or absorb protein as well so protein does not turn into body tissue like it did when they were 18 years old not to mention the fact that a lot of people have lost stomach acids so they’re not digesting this protein to eventually get this as well because your body makes it so we have a protein absorption problem we have a digestive problem being able to break down the protein as we age we can’t make this as well and also if you’re not consuming the cofactors to make it like b6 vitamin C some of the other B vitamins and that could be another reason why this could benefit you but I just wanted to create this summary video to point out that L carnitine is not just for athletes okay not just for people that want to lose weight it’s also and even more importantly for people that want to support a healthy cardiovascular system thanks for watching if you’re liking this content please subscribe now and I will actually keep you updated on future videos