Muscle weakness and endurance: Solved (i hope)
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- May 2012
Summary
Weak enough to struggle lifting a pan while on an Active B12 protocol, he began 2000mg/day of L-carnitine (fumarate/tartrate) and regained strength within 4 days. He deliberately tested the effect by stopping the supplement: weakness returned within days, and strength came back within hours of restarting at a 1000mg dose, confirming the benefit was real but strictly maintenance-dependent.
What they credit
Credits Supplements, B12 injections and methylation, Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids.
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