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Acetyl-L-Carnitine
Preventive Intake: 1,000-3,000 mg
Benefits:
- Helps prevent short-term memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.
- Protects against neural degeneration.
- Useful in treating depression, liver and heart disease, male reproductive health, mental stress and vision and nerve repair.
- Decreases the body's dependence on sugar for fuel.
- Necessary for the metabolism of fat in cells.
- Decreases the amount of fat circulating in blood, therefore decreasing the chances of arteriosclerosis.
Deficiencies May Cause: An insufficient ability to metabolize fat within the cells of the body.
Food Sources: None.