Experiences with injectable L Carnitine?

[Tmisatix]

Anyone have any experience with inj. L Carnitine? Was it effective and worth the money? Was it sub q or intra muscular?

L Carnitine is much more effective when injected v.s. taking the oral version. Instead of buying the oral for performance, i'd rather go with what works.

Thanks fellas

 

[BIGSJ72]

I was looking into injectable Amino's they sell them for horses cheaper got some great mixes for nitric oxide huge bottles they even had glutamine I would love to know more as well

 

[BIGSJ72]

This should be in supplements I am thinking bro

 

[justaphan]

got a link to any articles on this? sounds interesting and im always down to play guinni pig

 

[Docd187123]

Waste of money unless you happen to be a vegan, vegetarian, or just don't eat a lot of meat.

Injectable is not more effective than oral, it simply has a higher bioavailability rate. This means it's still ineffective for fat loss unless you're deficient in carnitine.

Here's a good overview of carnitine

https://examine.com/supplements/l-carnitine/

 

[roger1990]

Carnitine alone (IV or oral) is ineffective because it has repeatedly failed to increase muscle carnitine levels.

You need to stack it with slin (IV) or do a 4-6 months 2x daily 80 grams of high insulinogenic carbs + carnitine protocol to increase muscle carnitine content. Once muscle carnitine levels are raised (pretty much acutely with slin or months orally) you can expect some very interesting effects:

Chronic oral ingestion of L-carnitine and carbohydrate increases muscle carnitine content and alters muscle fuel metabolism during exercise in humans. - PubMed - NCBI
Insulin stimulates L-carnitine accumulation in human skeletal muscle. - PubMed - NCBI
Skeletal muscle carnitine loading increases energy expenditure, modulates fuel metabolism gene networks and prevents body fat accumulation in humans. - PubMed - NCBI

Too bad these studies are widely ignored in the bodybuilding community. It's one of the most promising supplement protocols of the last 2 decades.