L-Carnitine Combined with Leucine Supplementation Does Not Improve the Effectiveness of Progressive Resistance Training in Healthy Aged Women
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Published:2022-10-12
Issue:10
Volume:26
Page:945-953
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ISSN:1760-4788
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Container-title:The journal of nutrition, health & aging
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J Nutr Health Aging
Author:
Sawicka A. K., Jaworska J., Brzeska B., Sabisz A., Samborowska E., Radkiewicz M., Szurowska E., Winklewski P. J., Szarmach A., Olek Robert A.ORCID
Abstract
Abstract
Objectives
To evaluate the effect of L-carnitine (LC) in combination with leucine supplementation on muscle strength and muscle hypertrophy in aged women participating in a resistance exercise training (RET) program.
Design/Setting/Participants
Thirty-seven out of sixty (38.3% dropout) healthy women aged 60–75 years (mean 67.6 ± 0.7 years) completed the intervention in one of three groups. One of the supplemented groups received 1 g of L-carnitine-L-tartrate in combination with 3 g of L-leucine per day (LC+L group; n = 12), and the second supplemented group received 4 g of L-leucine per day (L group; n = 13). The control group (CON group; n = 12) received no supplementation.
Intervention
All three groups completed the same RET protocol involving exercise sessions twice per week for 24 weeks.
Measurements
Before and after the experiment, participants performed isometric and isokinetic muscle strength testing on the Biodex dynamometer. The cross-sectional areas of the major knee extensors and total thigh muscles were assessed using magnetic resonance imaging. Fasting serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), myostatin and decorin, and plasma levels of total carnitine (TC) and trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) levels were measured.
Results
The 24-week RET significantly increased muscle strength and muscle volume, but the group and time interactions were not significant for the muscle variables analyzed. Plasma total carnitine increased only in the LC+L group (p = 0.009). LC supplementation also caused a significant increase in plasma TMAO, which was higher after the intervention in the LC+L group than in the L (p < 0.001), and CON (p = 0.005) groups. The intervention did not change plasma TMAO concentration in the L (p = 0.959) and CON (p = 0.866) groups. After the intervention serum decorin level was higher than before in both supplemented groups combined (p = 0.012), still not significantly different to post intervention CON (p = 0.231). No changes in serum IGF-1 and myostatin concentrations and no links between the changes in blood markers and muscle function or muscle volume were observed.
Conclusions
LC combined with leucine or leucine alone does not appear to improve the effectiveness of RET.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Geriatrics and Gerontology,Nutrition and Dietetics,Medicine (miscellaneous)
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