Preventive Intake: 1,000-3,000 mg

Benefits:

• Helps prevent short-term memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.
• Protects against neural degeneration.
• Useful in treating depression, liver and heart disease, male reproductive health, mental stress and vision and nerve repair.
• Decreases the body's dependence on sugar for fuel.
• Necessary for the metabolism of fat in cells.
• Decreases the amount of fat circulating in blood, therefore decreasing the chances of arteriosclerosis.
  

Deficiencies May Cause: An insufficient ability to metabolize fat within the cells of the body.

Food Sources: None.