The VO 2peak value from the incremental exercise test was used to determine exercise intensities for both the L-carnitine and placebo trials
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The amino acid L-carnitine occurs mainly in the heart muscle, skeletal muscle, but also in the brain and has been preferred by experienced athletes for years in reduction phases or at times of long-lasting submaximal training - or competition units before exercise or earlier in the day deployed
Other outcomes, including stillbirth, spontaneous abortion, small-for-gestational-age births, and preterm birth, showed no statistically significant associations, though several estimates were imprecise and some, like stillbirth, could not fully rule out a clinically meaningful increase