THE ROLE OF L-CARNITINE IN THE IMPROVING LIVER FUNCTIONS AND LIPID PROFILE IN VOLUNTEERS FROM KIRKUK CITY

Abstract

The dietary supplement industry is constantly developing, continuously offering a wide variety of products for athletes and non-athletes. This study has conducted to investigated the biological activity of L-carnitine on some physiological criteria in the sera of sixty sportsmen (volunteers) male only in age of ( 18-24 ) years in Kirkukcity in spring of ( 2015 ) , the particular testing period continue for (4) weeks and the volunteers were randomly divided into (2) groups each group include (30) volunteer as following: The first group of athletes was control groupin which did not supplysupplementations,the second group of athletes who have used L- carnitine (500 mg) per day and an average of twice a day for 15 dayssupplementations. The results have been indicated the following: The sportsmen whom received L- carnitine every day for 15 days showed a significant increase in the concentrations of High-density lipoproteinHDL –cholesterol while there was a significant decrease in the concentrations ofAspartate Transaminase (GOT) ,Alanine Transaminase (GPT) andAlkaline phosphatase(Alp) enzymes , total cholesterol(Cho) and Triglycerides(T.G) in comparison with control group before and after the exercise. The current study revealed that using L-carnitine as supplements for sportsmen have an important effects on most of physiological and biochemical activities of the body and a positive effect to improve exercise performance.