Alpha Lipoic Acid is an oxidant that oxidizes NADH to NAD+. This helps to fight reductive stress, a major cause of oxidative stress. It has a half-life of just a couple of hours and is safely elimintaed in urine.
This product is a mixture of the L and R enatiomers, which means it will eliminate reductive stress from both the cytoplasm and the mitochondria.
ALA has been shown to eliminate obesity in mice and rats and to aid weight loss in humans.