L-Carnitine and Improved Exercise Performance

• Effect of Acute and Chronic Oral l-Carnitine Supplementation on Exercise Performance Based on the Exercise Intensity: A Systematic Review.

  • 2021-12-03
  • Systematic Review
  • Nutrients 13(12)
  • • Juan Mielgo-Ayuso
    • Laura Pietrantonio
    • Aitor Viribay
    • Julio Calleja-González
    • Jerónimo González-Bernal
    • Diego Fernández-Lázaro

  • PubMed: 34959912
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu13124359

  7 Insights on

  • Improved Exercise Performance

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  no significant improvements on performance were found

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  3 to 4 g ingested between 60 and 90 min before testing or 2 to 2.72 g/day for 9 to 24 weeks