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Peripheral neuropathies: stop the pain with L-acetylcarnitine

Weakness, pain, and sensitivity to sensitivity of touch, balance, and walking are the most frequent symptoms of peripheral neuropathy, a condition that occurs in the event of malfunction of the nerves that are part of the peripheral nervous system, responsible for connecting the central nervous system to muscles, skin and internal organs. But also tingling in the legs and feet, pain, numbness, deep pangs, electric shocks are indicators of this condition, which afflicts over 4 million Italians, in the most common forms of lumbosciatalgia, cervicobrachialgia and carpal tunnel syndrome. Peripheral neuropathies can affect the motor nerves (motor neuropathy), which have the task of transmitting to the muscles the command to activate the movement, the sensory ones (sensitive neuropathy), necessary for the touch, to feel the sensations of hot / cold, vibrations, pain and to know the position of the body in space, or both (mixed neuropathy).
Do you know what L-Acetylcarnitine is?
L-Acetylcarnitine, naturally present in animal tissues, is one of the types of carnitine whose best-known function is the transport of fatty acids into the mitochondria, where they are transformed into energy.