While we're on the subject, has anyone used l-carnitine and found that it produced strange body odor?
I've used it on-and-off for a number of years after reading Lyle McDonald recommending it as part of the limited supplement regimen for one of his rapid fat loss protocols. Seems to have some effect in that regard.
I used it recently as part of my contest prep supplementation. After a few weeks, my wife and daughter noticed that I smelled differently and rather strongly and ID'd the scent as fried dried squid - an old-time snack food in Korea that is losing ground but can still be found in a lot of street stalls. When I first got here, it was the item of choice at the cinema snack bars - an acquired taste (and smell) but not bad in small quantities once you got accustomed to it.
I couldn't figure out what was causing the smell - thought it might just have something to do with the rather large amount of body fat that I was oxidizing - but then I read somewhere recently that L-carnitine can cause changes in body odor.