Metabolic and feeding Taurine and L-Carnitine's roles

Abstract

This paper reports the resultos of a comparative review carried out to asses the metabolic and nutritional Taurine and L-Carnitine´s characteristics.  The L-Carnitine is highly distributed in animal muscles, and it is made from L-Lysine, a essential aminoacid, and perhaps it has not vitaminic activity neither therapeutic effects.  L-Carnitine is each day more important in nourishment, specifically for preterm infants and on the lipidic metabolic.  Otherwise, the Taurine is a not essential amino acid (NEAA) in order to adult human, because it is synthesized from another amino acids constituted for sulphur radicals.  However, the Taurine is essential for very young people of several species, including human species.