ooooooohhh. ALCAR is carnitine!
there is this great new radio show on the weekends in dallas called "the new you" show. it's mainly for fatasses, but they have a guest nutritionist/comedian who calls in from chicago for the show, and he WORSHIPS carnitine.
he wrote a whole freaking book about it "The Carnitine Miracle", spent 12 years researching it. Robert Crayhon's the name.