If young, healthy guys boost their muscle carnitine by 20% with supplements, their muscles might be moving fat into energy factories way more—like four times more at rest.

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Skeletal muscle carnitine loading increases energy expenditure, modulates fuel metabolism gene networks and prevents body fat accumulation in humans

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2013 Sep 15

The study shows that carnitine supplements increase fat-processing molecules in muscle, supporting the idea that carnitine helps move fat into energy-burning parts of cells, but the increase was two times, not four.

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Skeletal muscle carnitine loading increases energy expenditure, modulates fuel metabolism gene networks and prevents body fat accumulation in humans

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DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.255364

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