Tag: skeletal muscle

• Raising skeletal muscle carnitine

  Carnitine is required to bring the longer chain fatty acids into the mitochondrial matrix where it can be further broken down to produce ATP.  Carnitine Palmitoil Transferase 1a (CPT1a) is a mitochondrial outer membrane bound protein that will take in an acyl-CoA and bind it to carnitine resulting in acyl-carnitine.   On a ketogenic diet (KD),…

  DesignedByNature

  7 April 2023

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  ascorbic acid, carnitine, insulin, ketogenic diet, protein, salt, skeletal muscle, vitamin C