Properties: anti-cellutite, antiage, increases skin elasticity. Perfect complement for Lipocare in the treatment of cellulite.

Use: mix liberally with lotion or our seakelp bioferment and massage deeply until product is absorbed. Can also be used by itself for a stronger effect. We recommend using our pumpkin peel following lipocare application.

Further information: L-Carnitine and derivatives like acetyl carnitine, carry activated fatty acids through the mostly impermeable inner mitochondrial membrane, allowing the respiration of fatty acids. The activated fatty acid (Acyl-CoA) cannot pass through the membrane but there is a special translocator for Acyl-carnitine. Once carnitine releases the fatty acid it carries (a process involving a tranferase), carnitine can go out again and take up another activated fatty acid.

L-carnitine is a derivative of the amino acid lysine, and it is named after the material it was first isolated from, meat (carnus in Latin), in 1905. It was first believed to be a vitamin, and called vitamin BT, but humans can synthesize L-carnitine, although under certain conditions and depending on the diet the demand for L-carnitine may exceed an individual's capacity to synthesize it, making it a "conditionally essential nutrient".

References

Shigenaga, Mark K.; Hagen, Tory M.; Ames, Bruce N Oxidative damage and mitochondrial decay in aging (1994) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 91(23), 10771-8.

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