price for ALC from Swanson

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Sunny et al

FWIW, I bought Acetyl-L Carnitine from Swanson (

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/ ) one month ago. As I earlier said, I think

it's only newly available in the green plastic bottle, Premium Brand, which

seems to be their cheapest (for all other stuff as well). I paid $14.99

(plus modest shipping) for 100 caps of 500 mg. I take two of these, twice a

day, so that's $.60/day for 2 g.

I couldn't find ALC at Epic ( http://www.epic4health.com/ ) but of course

they do have plain old L-carnitine. I don't know what the alleged

differences are, other than that I recall reading that the acetyl variant is

more bio-available to nervous system tissues (something about more readily

crossing the blood-brain " barrier " ).

Steve D.

P.S. Since I have the invoice out, I'll report my Swanson purchase (in the

green plastic bottle) for Co-Q10: $29.99 for 100 caps of 120 mg. I also take

two of these twice daily, so that's $1.20/day for 480 mg.

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:28:02 -0500

From: z39z@...

Subject: Re: Juvenon with alpha-lipoic acid and acetyl L carnitine

Hi, Steve

I agree about high-priced combos, Steve. I offered the site mainly for

information on the two supplements, ALA and ALC.

I like Swanson a lot, but a while ago when I priced out a month's

supply of those two, I don't remember there being such a huge

difference. I will look again, though. I do take my ALA and ALC from

two bottles still.

Swanson's Qgel is reduced now, and is cheaper than the Epic source at

this time, even buying in high quantities. I believe I posted before

that Swanson has assured me (for what it is worth) that their Qgel

comes directly from Tischon.

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Regards

Sunny