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39 of 63 - Carnitine Deficiency - Health Challenges Autistic Children Experience (see description for video presentation link and full lecture series) image

39 of 63 - Carnitine Deficiency - Health Challenges Autistic Children Experience (see description for video presentation link and full lecture series)

Children's Health Podcast (formerly Autism & Children's Health)
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Transcript

Introduction to Carnitine

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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.

Carnitine's Role in Cellular Functions

00:00:16
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It then also carries out byproducts from this kind of process out of the mitochondria so the cells can excrete them, basically.

Impact of Carnitine Depletion

00:00:27
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And what this means is that carnitine is extremely important for energy production and depleted carnitine levels can contribute to mitochondria dysfunction.

Carnitine and Autism

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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.
00:00:45
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And we've had some of these studies from 10, 20

Carnitine Supplementation in Autism Treatment

00:00:49
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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.