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Sergey Terushkin, MD, FACS, is a board-certified surgeon and weight loss specialist at Florida Surgery & Weight Loss Center in Hollywood, FL
As always, patch test any new product first
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Based on reading some of the websites it seems that their hypothesis is that because ALC is involved in the Krebs cycle in the mitochondria, which gets energy from fatty acids, that means ALC helps burn fat. There is not much in the scientific literature on this topic, but I did come across an article that found no difference in metabolic parameters in study participants taking L-carnitine versus controls (not exactly the same things as acetyl-L-carnitine, but they are used somewhat similarly in the body, there just isnt the extra acetyl group in the L-carnitine)