Clinical and biochemical aspects of carnitine deficiency and insufficiency: transport defects and inborn errors of -oxidation
It supports collagen synthesis, the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis), and the immune response, all of which are essential for proper wound healing
2013 meta-analysis: A meta-analysis of 13 clinical trials including 3,629 adults with acute myocardial infarction who took L-carnitine (from 2.7 g/day for 5 days to 6 g/day for 12 months) versus placebo found that L-carnitine significantly reduced rates of all-cause mortality, ventricular arrhythmias, and new-onset angina
When it is produced by our bodies, which happens in the kidneys, brain and liver, its not metabolized by the gut microbiota and isnt converted to TMAO
Moreover, another microRNA, that is miR-212, has an aberrant expression in prostate cancer and has been shown to directly target CAC (Soni et al., 2014)