A couple years back, after I had back surgery and I still had some numbness in my feet afterwards I used to take 3 grams at a time worth of ALCAR largely based on this study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/17223507
Delayed acetyl-L-carnitine administration and its effect on sensory neuronal rescue after peripheral nerve injury.
...Five groups of rats (n=5 per group) underwent unilateral sciatic
nerve
axotomy.
...Cell loss was eliminated when
ALCAR
was commenced within<or=24 h of axotomy.
..
I found later that lots of ALCAR makes me spontaneously get difficult concept or come up with some flash of creativity when I would normally get stuck on some problem or another. I now take it regularly when I am stuck trying to grok some particularly tricky concept. I don't take ALCAR at these dosages regularly though because it tastes like crap and really kills libido.
Has anyone else had experiences with megadosing ALCAR?
Edited by abelard lindsay, 05 June 2012 - 03:57 AM.