Andrew Huberman· PhD
"Here, given twice daily, carnitine appeared to be effective and well tolerated treatment for a group of children with ADHD."
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"Here, given twice daily, carnitine appeared to be effective and well tolerated treatment for a group of children with ADHD."
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Here, given twice daily, carnitine appeared to be effective and well tolerated treatment for a group of children with ADHD.
And frankly in all studies of human pharmacology, you have to worry about effects that show up, not just because of placebo effects, but because of so-called off target effects or related things, totally independent of the drug or the particular supplement that you happen to be looking at, to put in the words of a great neuroscientist.
There was a very significant effect of acetyl L-carnitine supplementation on improving some of the symptomology, excuse me, of ADHD.