L-Carnitine vs L-Carnitine L-Tartrate for recovery
Short answer: For recovery, users rate them about the same: 100% report improvement with L-Carnitine (4 reports) and 100% with L-Carnitine L-Tartrate (6 reports).
L-Carnitine has 170 meta-analyses and 466 randomized trials on PubMed; L-Carnitine L-Tartrate has 1 and 15.
Based on 195 reports about L-Carnitine and 21 about L-Carnitine L-Tartrate. Not medical advice.
| L-Carnitine Supplement | L-Carnitine L-Tartrate Supplement | |
|---|---|---|
| Users say it helped | 61%helped55 reports · medium confidence | 40%helped5 reports · few reports |
| Verdict | Mostly positive | Mixed |
| Research | AResearch: Strong | BResearch: Moderate |
| Meta-analyses / RCTs | 170 / 466 | 1 / 15 |
| Mainly used for | ||
| Energy % reporting improvement | 96% (23) | — |
| Weight loss % reporting improvement | 67% (18) | — |
| Performance % reporting improvement | 92% (13) | 100% (2) |
| Recovery % reporting improvement | 100% (4) | 100% (6) |
| Focus % reporting improvement | 86% (7) | — |
| Common side effects | injection pain, insomnia, tingling, lowered thyroid | high tmao |
| Typical dose reported | 2 g / daily | 4 g / daily |
l-carnitine supplementation provides a modest reducing effect on body weight, BMI and fat mass, especially among adults with overweight/obesity.
Clin Nutr ESPEN, 2020 ↗“amino acids L carnitine and glutamine made a difference in my skin.”
In summary, l-C supplementation with 3 to 4 g ingested between 60 and 90 min before testing or 2 to 2.72 g/day for 9 to 24 weeks improved high-intensity exercise performance. However, chronic or acute l-C or GPL-C supplementation did not present improvements on moderate exercise performance.
Nutrients, 2021 ↗“a patient I worked with had to stop taking l-carnitine l-tartare because of high TMAO”
Percentages come from first-hand user reports and are not clinical outcomes. Talk to a doctor before starting, stopping or combining anything. How we rate