Thanks for sharing that. The material on supplements is new to me. I take a lot of vitamins but never used ALA or carnitine. I'm the same weight I was in high school (1974) but back then I was probably 3% body fat and now I'm 15%. Back then I was the strongest nose guard on the football team. It reminds me of a scene in Schindler's List; The nazi asks Shindler if he's losing weight and he laments, "Only in my shoulders".