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Speaker: Now, I mentioned carnitine in the video on mitochondrial dysfunction. What carnitine is, it's basically a molecule that carries long -chain fatty acids into the mitochondria where they can be burned up or oxidized to produce energy. It then also carries out byproducts from this kind of process out of the mitochondria so the cells can excrete them, basically.
Speaker: And what this means is that carnitine is extremely important for energy production and depleted carnitine levels can contribute to mitochondria dysfunction. Why is this all of this important? It's because numerous studies that I've looked at have reported suboptimal or deficient carnitine levels in autistic children.
Speaker: And we've had some of these studies from 10, 20 years ago. So this is why a lot of practitioners that specialize in autism, they will add a carnity supplement to most children's supplement program. And of course, we'll talk about supplementing it in a later module.
