“some l-carnitine some fertility experts will also recommend other things and for that i'll just cue you to natalie crawford's excellent book on the titled the fertility formula as well as her podcast”
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L-Carnitine
Mentioned 8 times on 3 shows. Most recently heard 27/07/2026.
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“And L-carnitine can be taken orally as capsules. Typically those are higher dosages. So those can be as high as, you know, 500 milligrams or 750 milligrams a day. You don't absorb as much of it when you take it orally. Some people will actually do the injectable form of L-carnitine. And then with coenzyme Q10, the dosage recommendations vary. I'll point you to Natalie's podcast with me.”
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“So I want to be really clear. I'm not saying that the linchpin factor in fertility is coenzyme Q10 or it's L-carnitine. It's going to be multivariate. I think the most important thing is to set a context for overall reproductive health. So that's going to be body-wide, keeping inflammation relatively low through the low inflammation diet, exercise being critical.”
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“The answer was there are supplements that kind of signal the mitochondria to come out and play again. And the one I took was called L-Carnitine. It's it's off over the counter.”
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“He took him to the hospital, he had some comorbidity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other thing, too, is you got to be some people have carnitine deficiencies. Carnitines prevents fatty acids from being made into ketone bodies. So, so they can be carnitine supplementation can help them.”
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“Along with that, I would put L-Carnitine.”
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“it's probably a lot of L-carnitine. How much should people take per day? Usually I recommend for oral L-carnitine, between 1,000 milligrams and up to four or 5,000 milligrams. So one to four, maybe even five grams.”
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“Is it true that I can offset any negative effects of alpha-GPC? That is, N-L-carnitine that I take by ingesting garlic? Is that right? There's a compound in garlic called allicin. I believe it's A-L-L-I-C-I-N.”
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