CoQ10) is important for your body's daily functions that it is also known as “ubiquinone” because it's 'ubiquitous' in the human body -- CoQ10 is actually used by every cell in your body.
For instance, CoQ10 is required for your cells to produce energy, and is an integral part of helping cells take fat and other substances and convert them into usable energy.
CoQ10 can also help protect your body from free radical damage. Free radicals are oxygen atoms deficient in electrons that become highly reactive. This in turn causes potential damage to your tissues and DNA.
It is because of its powerful antioxidant protection that CoQ10 is often recommended for a wide variety of heart-related conditions, such as heart attack, high blood pressure and congestive heart failure, which require extra protection from free radical damage.
CoQ10 has actually been the subject of thousands of research studies, and in addition to the new finding above that CoQ10 may help reduce the risk of fatty liver in people with obesity, CoQ10 may also:
Help you produce more energy for your cells
Boost your heart health
Act as an antioxidant to protect you from free radicals
Help you reduce the signs of normal aging
Help you maintain blood pressure levels within the normal range
Provide a boost to your immune system
Support your nervous system
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What You Need to Know About CoQ10 as You Get Older
Your body requires the reduced form of CoQ10 (ubiquinone) to help you limit free radical production.
If you're under 25 years old your body is capable of converting CoQ10 from the oxidized to the reduced form. However, if you're older, your body becomes more and more challenged to convert the oxidized Co Q10 to ubiquinone.
It becomes more and more difficult for you to produce the ubiquinone you need due to:
Increased metabolic demand
Oxidative stress
Insufficient dietary Co Q10 intake
Deficiency of factors required for biosynthesis and ubiquinone conversion
Potential effects from illness and disease
Age-related changes in your genes
And any combination of these factors
Further, as you get older your body levels of CoQ10 continue to diminish, making it even more difficult to maintain adequate levels.
So, if you're over 40, I would highly recommend taking a reduced form of coenzyme Q10 called ubiquinone , because it's far more
effectively absorbed by your body. This is one of the few supplements I consider highly beneficial for nearly all adults.
CoQ10 is Essential if You Take Statin Drugs
Anytime I write about CoQ10 I absolutely have to share this fact with you, because so many people are taking statin drugs and are completely unaware of this important information.
Statin drugs used to lower cholesterol typically work by reducing an enzyme in your liver, which not only reduces the production of cholesterol, but it also reduces the production of coenzyme Q10. When you lower the production of CoQ10, you increase your risk of a variety of different health problems.
Premature aging is one primary side effect of having too little CoQ10 because this essential vitamin recycles other antioxidants,
such as vitamin C and E.
CoQ10 deficiency also accelerates DNA damage, and because CoQ10 is beneficial to heart health and muscle function this depletion leads to fatigue, muscle weakness, soreness and eventually heart failure. Therefore, it is absolutely vital to supplement with CoQ10 if you're taking a statin drug.
In my view it is medical malpractice to prescribe a statin drug without recommending one take CoQ10, or better yet ubiquinol.
Unfortunately, many doctors fail to inform their patients of this fact.