Taking Carnitine To Fight Visceral Belly Fat

Carnitine can be taken to help counter visceral belly fat, but before we get into that lets firstly define what both of these things are.

What is Visceral Belly Fat?

Visceral fat is belly fat that is found deep in your abdominal cavity, different to subcutaneous fat which is stored just beneath your skin and is the fat that you can pinch with your fingers. 

Visceral belly fat can be extremely hard to lose and it can also cause a variety of health problems, leading to fat gain around organs such as the liver, heart and even muscles. Fat gain in the liver is of particular concern as it can lead to fat being deposited around the heart.

What is Carnitine?

Carnitine is a naturally occurring substance that is made from several compounds, including L-carnitine, acetyl-L-carnitine and propionyl-L-carnitine and one of it’s functions is to help the body to turn fat into energy. It does this by helping transport long-chain fatty acids into the body’s cells, where they can be burned to help produce energy. Carnitine is generally produced in the liver and kidneys and transported around the rest of the body for us in other tissues. Carnitine is mainly found in muscles that use fatty acids as their main source of dietary fuel such as the cardiac (heart) and skeletal muscles.

How Carnitine Helps Rid Belly Fat

Higher levels of carnitine help to fight fat by increasing your body’s fat burning capabilities. Carnitine’s ability to burn fat helps to avoid complications such as high cholesterol. A recent study showed that Carnitine even helps avoid the build-up of fat around the belly. This reduction in the build-up of visceral belly fat helps to also avoid future complications.

Carnitine helps to support the burning of visceral belly fat by speeding up the transportation of fatty acids into the muscles. By getting these fatty acids into the muscles, carnitine enables the body to burn them for fuel rather than store them as fatty deposits.

Other Ways Carnitine Burns Fats

Carnitine also has a positive effect on the body’s ability to exercise and therefore indirectly burn fat. Because carnitine speeds up the process of burning fat for energy it helps provide muscles with the necessary fuel for exercise. This allows for improvements in physical performance thereby helping the body burn excess fat for fuel during training.

Carnitine also helps speed up the recovery process from exercise. This means Carnitine helps us train more often for longer periods of time. This increase in physical activity combined with the increased speed of fat burning makes Carnitine an ideal aid for fat loss.

Carnitine Summary

Carnitine is an excellent supplement should your aim be to reduce visceral belly fat. Carnitine helps in two ways. First of all, Carnitine speeds up the process of burning long-chain fatty acids for energy. Secondly, Carnitine increases physical performance, and the regularity of our ability to exercise.

Where can I find Carnitine?

Given its position as an excellent supplement to support weight loss, we have included it in a number of products, including our Diet Meal Replacement Extreme shakes and our Themopro Burn Ultra capsules.