Optimum Performance / Human Performance Systems

There are many definitions of functional foods. I put functional foods into three categories for the benefit of efficiency. The topic of functional foods goes much deeper than this brief post. The three categories are:  1. those whole foods that inherently possess greater than average nutritional value beyond basic nutrition, for example an apple, spinach, or parsley 2. [...]

QUESTION: What is the mechanism of action for L-Carnitine ? What are good food sources of Carnitine ? ANSWER: Carnitine upgrades the transport of fatty acids from the cell cytoplasm into mitochondrial matrix where fat burning takes place. Carnitine does this by enhancing the penetration across the mitochondrial membrane. Carnitine is found primarily in animal [...]