anybody tried to make that? stuff online is a bit expensive. after watching this video I figured I ask Grok how to do it. answer was quiet good, but there is 1 missing point. here is what i figured you need so far
a) Amazon.com
b) Amazon.com
c) Amazon.com
now the problem is sterile water. all i find is for animal use, but they say not for human use, but I figured this might work. trying to avoid distilled water and/or plastic bottles due to plastic contamination
bacteriostatic water is simply 0.9% benzyl alcohol in sterile water. I understand that the l-carnitine itself might not be the purest, but i doubt online sources have that much high of a quality either. my compounding pharma sells 30ml/500mg per ml for 70usd, but DIY method is fraction of this
Then add 1% Benzyl Alcohol to make your BAC water.
I haven’t made this myself, but I want to.
The recipe I found was this (from someone who makes it regularly):
50mL @ 600mg/mL: 26.44mL distilled water, 30g powder, 1mL BA.
Didn’t click the links because work computer. Have you figured out your filtering system yet?
cool thanks. what I thought. I do have an RO system, so just cook it. i prob even skip the boiling to avoid contamination from pan. maybe microwave the vials with water?
what do you want to filter? just mix the 3, seal the vial, and i prob store in fridge as well
The entire mixed solution.
I was recommended to use a 0.2 micron syringe filter.
For sterile water, I’d just get a new, clean, uncoated pan and use that for this only. Maybe ceramic coated is fine, idk I haven’t researched this part yet but the guide I sent for sterile water was distributed by a literal children’s hospital - I imagine this is pretty solid to follow verbatim.
good to know. i assume that the dissolved l-carnitine would be below 0.2 micron. and you are looking to filter out impurities in the water + l carnitine powder?
Yes. Maybe theres nothing there, or maybe you just filtered out a hair or some dust too small to see.
Nothing helpful to add, just curious, why would you want to inject l-carnitine?
Better metabolic rate via increased cell activity, mental clarity, and reportedly - increased androgen receptor density if used long enough.
Consuming l-car orally is less effective and you need to down a ton of garlic to offset whatever the related sides are (i dont recall off hand).
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the guy in the video claims you need to take it with like 100g of dextrose to spike insulin sufficiently. while I am not keto for a long time anymore, i don’t love that idea. or inject pure insulin. seems even worse. right now I stick to 600mg injection into glutes, and a good amount of honey/maple syrup and some fruit as a pre-workout stack with some other.
I can definitely tell that it does something. i’ve been sweating way more doing simple weight lifting. i seem broke a small weight loss stall, and am down 22lb fat since november (started l-car a month ago or so). strength gains are definitely noticeable.
also my hunger decreased a lot I have a hard time eating even 2500cal, which is the deficit i am in now of 3300 base
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finally did it. alive and well so far. on day 3 self made injection. I did under sink RO water, 1% benzyl, and bulk supplement l-carnitine powder, 30g in 30ml water. what I noticed is that the solution is pretty thick and has high viscosity. it takes quite some time to fill a 1ml 29g syringe. the stuff i ordered on the internet had low viscosity and filled the syringe within 3seconds. which makes me think that it was severely underdosed.
the best thing, I got absolutely no PIP doing subq. no rough spots.
I also had to order 16g 10ml needle/syringes to fill the solution into the ampules, since those can’t be opened.