Some people use L-carnitine by mouth for muscle disorders associated with certain AIDS medications, difficulty fathering a child (male infertility), a brain development disorder called Rett syndrome, anorexia, body weakness and wasting due to an illness, weight loss, chronic fatigue syndrome and fatigue associated with multiple sclerosis, celiac disease, cancer, aging, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, overactive thyroid, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, leg ulcers, Lyme disease, a blood disorder called beta-thalassemia, loss of brain function due to liver damage, hepatitis C, non-alcoholic liver disease, memory, migraine headache, to improve athletic performance and endurance in healthy people and people with a lung condition called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
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We therefore used a well-established in vivo model of cachexia to assess whether L-carnitine would reduce the development of cachexia in mice
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