Carnitine (Acetyl L Carnitine)

Carnitine is à Â vitamin found mostly in meat and it can be manufactured by the liver from two amino acids, lysine and methionine, and several other vitamins and minerals. Carnitine is needed for the transport of oxidation of fatty acids within the energy centers of human cells (mitochondria). In fact, the energy metabolism of cells is highly dependent on carnitine. Carnitine also plays a role in the effect of the thymus hormone on the metabolism of cells and their ability to multiply. This is very important with reference to white blood cells, the body’s first line of defense against infection and cancer.

Elderly people are virtually devoid of carnitine. It protects older people from damage to white blood cells caused from free radicals (cancer-causing substances). It has the ability to increase white blood cell proliferation (replicate themselves) especially in the elderly. Carnitine counteracts the damage certain fats do to the immune system. Chemotherapy destroys carnitine, expelling it in the urine especially in women, causing a marked loss in energy.

Carnitine and azelaic acid have been used to treat malignant melanoma by enhancing the transport of azelaic acid into cancer cells and facilitating their killing ability.

Carnitine protects against the toxic effects of the toxic cancer drug MGBG. It has been shown that carnitine levels are low in people with cancer. It also helps to maintain extremely high energy levels at all times in our life, especially during cancer treatment.

Good sources of carnitine include beef, liver and milk.

Cysteine

Cysteine is a sulphur-containing amino acid. It has a remarkable ability to scavenge gold, silver, arsenic, mercury aluminum, cadmium, lead and other heavy metals from tissues, which are then combined with glutathione and harmlessly eliminated from the body. Cysteine helps to prevent many forms of cancer. Alliin (a derivative of cysteine) prevents chemically-induced cancers

Cysteine increases the production of glutathione (a powerful cancer-fighting antioxidant) and helps to excrete toxic chemicals, tobacco smoke and environmental pollutants from the body. It is a major factor in two antioxidant systems, gluathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase.

Cysteine deactivates acetaldehyde, a toxic waste product from the liver’s metabolism of alcohol (also present in cigarette smoke and smog) and carbon tetrachloride. These harmful substances cause massive cell and liver damage, leading to cancer and death. Cysteine also protects the bronchial tubes from the damage caused by smoking cigarettes. It has an ability to protect against free radicals released during chemotherapy, at a dosage of 500mg, three to four times daily. Cysteine also protects the body against the toxic side effects of radiation damage.

Cysteine has powerful immune-stimulating effects and protects cells (neutrophils, macrophages and lymphocytes) from destruction of their own free radical release, which can lead to chronic infection and cancer. It is also able to enhance T cell counts. T cells are important in the defensive actions of the immune system. Cysteine successfully lowers high cholesterol levels.

This versatile amino acid works more effectively if taken with vitamin E and selenium.

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