Since it has recently been found older people do not produce nearly as much glycine, cysteine, and taurine as younger people do, I think it’s a safe bet for me to take a small extra amount of carnitine, too.
Adding in glycine and cysteine can make older people recover a number of health markers, largely via glutathione, and taurine can increase superoxide dismutase (SOD) to younger levels, too. These are two antioxidants we used to make a lot of, but, for some reason, getting older causes these to not be made as much, contributing a lot to the effects old age, according to the studies.
What’s the best source of carnitine? Look it up. It’s meat. It’s long been known that maternal meat consumption during pregnancy is positively correlated with offspring IQ. Bottom line: If you want smart kids, don’t breed with a vegan woman. (That and she’s probably an annoying-as-hell leftist, too!)
I take glutathione and L-carnitine. I hope the L-carnitine is helping my lipid profile. At the very least, I hope it’s not hurting. I guess we’ll know soon enough.
I take the carnitine too.
I’ve come to understand that the glutathione/taurine/urulithin a matrix is all about optimizing the mitochondria.
I don’t quite understand how carnitine fits in. But yeah, makes sense that this is another chemical that declines with age.
Analysis of muscle samples of healthy humans of different ages showed a drastic reduction of carnitine and acetyl carnitine in the older subjects with a strong reverse correlation between age and carnitine levels.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2742580/#:~:text=Analysis%20of%20muscle%20samples%20of,between%20age%20and%20carnitine%20levels.
Carnitine comes from meat? Cool! My carnitas has actual carnitine!
I take Acetyl L Carnitine for brain health, 1500 mg daily. NaturalLife Labs brand, buy it at AMZ for good price.
As for cholesterol, I eat all the butter and EVOO I want, organic of course. Years ago I read the book, “Wheat Belly,” by Wm Davis, MD. He explained why wheat causes high cholesterol. LDL molecules in wheat are very small, can penetrate walls of digestive tract and get into blood stream. LDL molecules in butter and EVOO are far larger, stay in digestive tract and leave the body very soon. Of course my own MD tested me before I started eating this way and again a few months later. It works! And for some reason, my doc listed me as “Allergic to Avostatin.”
Had surgery a few days ago and med team was amazed that I only take one prescription. drug, a low-dose Lipitor. Told them about LDL molecules and they agreed, they knew that too.