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Effects and mechanism of L-Carnitine on weight loss
- 1 Department of Food Science and Engineering, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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Abstract
L-Carnitine, as an essential coenzyme in fat metabolism, can promote the metabolism of human fat, accelerate the burning of fat, and may achieve the desired fat burning slimming effect; This papers studies the effect of L-carnitine on weight loss and the possible side effects it may bring to the human body, explains the weight loss principle and metabolic pathway of L-carnitine from the molecular level, and discusses the relationship between exercise and L-carnitine in combination with metabolism, give the author recommendations for using L-Carnitine. A brief explanation of the current state of development of L-carnitine diet pills (supplements) in the field of health was described. Combined with the comparison and summary of existing databases, it is concluded that L-carnitine alone is not an ideal choice, and L-carnitine alone is used without exercise: For people with normal weight, L-carnitine has no effect on weight loss. Obviously, only overweight, and obese people, taking L-carnitine combined with a lot of training have obvious weight loss effect.
Keywords
L-carnitine, Lose weight, supplements.
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Liu,X. (2023). Effects and mechanism of L-Carnitine on weight loss. Theoretical and Natural Science,4,78-84.
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