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Carnitine as Repartitioning Agent? IGF-1, p-AKT & mTOR Up, Catabolic Proteins Down + 7% Improvement in Lean- to Total Mass Ratio W/ HED of 1-1.5 of Carnitine/Day

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It won't spare you the sweat, but carnitine could make it even more worthwhile by ramping up the anabolic and shutting down the catabolic signals. Until 2006 l-carnitine has been known as a fat-burner, an in-effective fat-burner and an expensive and pretty useless supplement (depending on whom you were asking). Then, in July 2006, Kraemer et al. published a paper (a human study, above all!) in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise a consequential paper so to say; a paper in which the authors report that l-carnitine l-tartrate supplementation at a dosage of 2.933g/day (this amount of LCLT contains 2g of pure carnitine) led to a statistically significant increase in androgen receptors in the vastus lateralis after a heavy resistance training protocol in previously strength trained male subjects (Kraemer. 2006). Still, the evidence has always been inconclusive to say the least Despite the fact that the concomitantly elevated post-workout luteinizing hormo...

Taurine Mimics Effects of Insulin, Annihilates Appetite and Quadruples Hypothalamic mTOR Activity in Rodent Study.

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Image 1: Bought in bulk, taurine is one of the cheapest amino acids on the market. If you listened to the third installment of the Amino Acids for Super Humans Series on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio , you will know that I am a firm a believer in the power of the non-essential sulfur-amino acid taurine . You would have heard me talk about it's beneficial effects on diabetes, hepatic health, weight management and more .... a recent study ( Solon. 2011 ) published in the influential journal Amino Acids does not only confirm all the beneficial effects, we already knew about, it also expands our current knowledge about taurine to its effects on the hypothalamic Akt/FOXO1, JAK2/STAT3 and mTOR/AMPK/ACC signaling cascades and the satiety signal neuropeptide Y (NPY). Carina S. Solon and her colleagues from the University of Campinas in Brazil hypothesized that "some of the activity of taurine in the control of body fat would be exerted through direct action...
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