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Q: What’s the best way to use carnitine for fat loss?

A: Although carnitine is well known for its fat-burning properties, it can also improve performance and recovery after intense exercise. In fact, carnitine plays a key role in muscle glycogen metabolism, ATP production, muscle tissue repair, and even free radical scavenging. Supplementation with carnitine before exercise can increase muscle glycogen storage and improve ATP production, which improves strength and delays fatigue. From a recovery standpoint, carnitine decreases production of free radicals and reduces muscle tissue damage and soreness from exercise via improvements in muscle cell biomechanics. When it comes to fat loss, it’s best to take carnitine before your workouts or in the earlier part of the day. It also works best when it’s stacked with other fat-burning ingredients that help mobilize fatty acids such as caffeine and raspberry ketone. Carnitine works to support fat loss by transporting long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria, which are the energy powerhouses (or fat-burning furnaces) found in cells.

For carnitine to become useful and effective, there needs to be an increase in fat mobilization in the body, and of course, this occurs during exercise and after the intake of a good fat burner. When an abundance of fatty acids has been mobilized in cells, carnitine gets to work and shuttles them over to the mitochondria so they can be burned off as fuel. It’s no surprise that when carnitine levels in the body are low, fat metabolism is reduced and can even stop dead in its tracks! Here’s the bottom line: To get the most out of carnitine for fat loss, make sure you take it consistently before every workout and try stacking it with other good fat-mobilizing ingredients. The recommended daily dose for fat loss is 2 to 4 grams per day. Take it daily in a divided dose, with breakfast and lunch or breakfast and before working out.

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