Paul Saladino· MD
choline and carnitine are critical nutrients for human health we do not want to limit these and it just drives me nuts that people are vilifying red meat as a source of choline and carnitine
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choline and carnitine are critical nutrients for human health we do not want to limit these and it just drives me nuts that people are vilifying red meat as a source of choline and carnitine
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you know carnitine is only found in meat and is clearly beneficial for us in terms of antioxidant response and it's been associated with improved response to other psychiatric things as well
choline is important for brain development acetylcholine phosphatidylcholine the membranes of your cells carnitine is an antioxidant and it's probably a longevity promoter being found in meat
there are unique chemicals in meat that might also protect us from products of oxidation things like carnosine and carnitine
So, let's think about carnitine as well. So, carnitine is a It's a molecule that's thought of as an antioxidant, but there's a lot of good evidence that number one, in vegetarians, carnitine and carnitine muscle transport are reduced. No surprise there. Vegetarians have lower levels of carnitine. Is that a problem? Yes, it's a problem. Carnitine is essential for human functioning. We can look at both animal studies, which I'll start with, and human studies.
Compounds like choline, compounds like carnitine that have valuable roles in humans, they get rolled into these fear-mongering fuds, fear, uncertainty, and disbelief, promulgations, and we're losing the whole context.