Carnitine sits in almost every pre-workout aisle on the market, and the reasoning behind that placement is sound. What it delivers is smaller: 4 pooled analyses, and 0 measuring performance....
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About 15 percent of couples worldwide are affected by infertility, and up to 1 in 2 of those cases involve a male factor. Carnitine turns up constantly in that conversation....
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Carnitine is 1 of the rare supplements where the dose was studied properly, across 991 trials and 4 pooled analyses. The awkward part is that those analyses disagree on the...
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These 2 names sit next to each other on every shelf and get treated as interchangeable, which they are not. 1 extra acetyl group changes where the molecule goes. Acetyl-L-carnitine...
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Carnitine is well tolerated across 991 trials, and the usual side effects are minor and digestive. There are also 539 papers on something that is not a side effect at...
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Carnitine is sold harder for fat loss than for anything else it is claimed to do. It is also 1 of the very few such products with 4 real meta-analyses...
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Carnitine is 1 of the most heavily studied compounds in any supplement shop, with 991 clinical trials behind it. It also has 539 papers describing a problem nobody selling it...
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Most BCAA trials never recorded how much protein their participants ate, which undermines the whole literature. A 2022 review of 24 studies says so directly. Complete protein already contains all...
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Soreness is the 1 athletic claim for BCAAs that partly survives a systematic review. It comes with 4 separate conditions attached to it. Of 10 trials, 7 found reduced soreness...
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The best safety numbers for BCAAs come from liver medicine rather than from sport, and they are specific. Nausea and diarrhoea hit 12% against 3% on control. That comes from...
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Across 22 studies the daily BCAA dose ranged from 1.5 g to 82 g, which is a 55-fold spread. That is not a field that has agreed on anything. The...
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BCAAs supply 3 of the 9 essential amino acids, while EAA products supply all 9 of them. That 1 difference decides most of this comparison. Creatine belongs in a different...
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