"Propionyl-L-carnitine in intermittent claudication." Cureus 2021;13:e17592
When someone lives with high blood pressure and high cholesterol for years, they can experience many mini-strokes that damage small blood vessels in the brain
1 Some healthcare providers prescribe it off-label for patients looking to lose weight
Candidates often include individuals who have experienced limited success with conventional diet and exercise strategies or those whose weight management efforts are complicated by insulin resistance or appetite dysregulation
And as somebody who was as really good at a lot of things, including sports, I wasnt great at sports, you know, but I was active and in that piece, not being able to fix my belly, which was deemed a weight problem but not a health problem, really set me off on a trajectory of things that are so unhealthy that even impact things like my bone health today, and certainly impacted my digestion and definitely impacted my early menstrual cycle, you know, and these sorts of things
