Alpha ketoglutarate for mitochondrial respiration dysfunction

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Has anyone tried Alpha ketoglutarate for mitochondrial respiration dysfunction.

seems a bodybuilding supplement.
for what i understand, it should help ?

 

Yes I have. It measured almost non existent on my OAT. It didn't make any difference on how I felt.

 

I was taking it for a few weeks, as it tends to be cheaper to buy l-arginine with it added than without.

I didn't notice any benefit and, as all of the studies about l-arginine I've referenced don't mention it, I switched back to straight l-arginine.

ETA - well.....the only benefit was it makes l-arginine in squash taste a little less medically. So I can see why there might be a preference for it, but it really wasn't worth the aggravation of recalculating, and trying to remember, scoops when l-arginine was one scoop but mixed with AAKG at a 2:1 ration - who knows, but I bet it's not a multiple of 'one scoop'

 

in general for mitochondria improvement its the naviaux recommendation

https://mitochondrialdiseasenews.co...-treatment-of-primary-mitochondrial-myopathy/

 

and another one perhaps

Astaxanthin (many references re mitochondria)

Astaxanthin Mediates Mitochondrial Dynamics in Mice
https://www.fasebj.org/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.31.1_supplement.170.7

 

A-Ketoglutarate linked to slc13a3
https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=SLC13A3
And High ammonia
Sodium transporter

 

Alpha ketoglutarate
It seems I get rid of mine in urine due to a genetic fault