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 and 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. This is because 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 your brain from many substances found in the bloodstream). Once inside the brain it nourishes your brain cells’ mitochondria.

Boost Your Brain Power

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.

Protect Your Brain And Nerves

Without enough energy brain cells die, and some are impossible to replace. But 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 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 damage 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 that 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 also gain weight as they age.

Supplemental Acetyl-L-Carnitine

Fortunately, ALC comes in supplement form. We recommend 1000 to 2000 mg per day for anyone at any age who wants to increase their energy and brain power, and more for those with neurological problems.

We have an encapsulated Acetyl-L-Carnitine that is 500 mg per capsule of the highest grade available. It contains no sugar, salt, starch, yeast, wheat, gluten, corn, soy, milk, egg, shellfish or preservatives.

Bio-Enchanced® R-Lipoic Acid

Bio-Enhanced® R-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.

In Summation

Acetyl-L-Carnitine and Bio-Enhanced® R-Lipoic Acid are two supplements that happen to pass the blood-brain barrier. Together, they increase neurotransmission, repair brain neurons, remove damaged fats, decrease stress hormone levels and most importantly chelates dangerous heavy metals like mercury and aluminium from the brain neurons.

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