CoQ10 Supplements: Top 10 Reasons to Take One

Coenzyme Q10, commonly shortened to CoQ10, is a vitamin-like fat soluble substance found in every cell in your body. In fact, its scientific name ubiquinone means ubiquitous quinone, literally the quinone found everywhere.

It acts like a miniature “power switch”, acting as a critical part of the electron transport chain used to generate 95% of all energy in the body.

Without CoQ10 your cells simply don’t have the ability to perform their function. Heart cells can’t pump blood… liver cells can’t purify toxins… brain cells can’t send signals to through the nervous system… and so on.

While CoQ10 is created by the liver, production drops off at an increasing rate starting by age 30 or earlier. Unless enough CoQ10 is then obtained through diet or supplements, chronic deficiencies can lead to significant health issues. Fortunately most can be reversed by restoring adequate CoQ10 levels.

While there are actually many more reasons to consider taking a quality CoQ10 supplement, here are my personal top 10:

#1: You’re over 30 years old. As you get older CoQ10 production plummets. In later years your liver may only make as little as 20% of the CoQ10 your body needs to maintain adequate levels.
#2: You’re taking a cholesterol-lowering drug. The most popular class of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins cause a dangerous reduction in CoQ10 levels. Columbia University documented a 50% drop within just 30 days of starting one of the most popular statin drugs.
#3: You have high blood pressure. One clinical trial studied 109 cardiology patients with high blood pressure. Even though patients averaged over 9 years with hypertension, over 50% were able to drop from one to three of their regular blood pressure medicines within 5 months as a result of improvement after adding CoQ10 to their drug regimen.
#4: You’ve had a heart attack. Heart attack patients at research hospitals in England and Germany were given either CoQ10 or a placebo for five days in addition to standard mild hypothermia treatment. Survival rates in the CoQ10 group were more than double the placebo group after three months.
#5: You regularly feel tired or out of energy. Low CoQ10 levels prevent the body from generating the energy needed to power your day. Increasing CoQ10 levels is like turning the power switch back on.
#6: You suffer from migraines. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in Switzerland tested the usefulness of CoQ10 in treating migraine sufferers. Nearly half of CoQ10 recipients reported a significant drop in frequency and severity of migraines by the third month.
#7: You have poor circulation in your hands and feet. Low CoQ10 levels are often to blame for poor circulation in extremities. The heart requires as much as 10 times the amount of CoQ10 as other organs due to its high energy requirements. When it doesn’t get enough, it can’t fill and pump efficiently leaving your hands and feet poorly supplied with freshly oxygenated blood. Congestive heart failure is associated with low CoQ10 levels, with lower CoQ10 levels corresponding with more severe disease.
#8: You want to protect your memory and thought clarity. CoQ10 protects the memory and learning processes in the brain. There is even some evidence CoQ10 can protect against the ravages of Alzheimer’s related brain damage.
#9: You want maximum support for your immune system. CoQ10 supports liver function in cleansing toxins out of the body, helping your body remain disease free.
#10: You want to age gracefully. CoQ10 is a powerful antioxidant fighting off the attacks of free radicals which can cause premature aging. It also works to revitalize exhausted Vitamin E in the body to provide even more antioxidant protection.

Again, there are many more reasons than these to consider taking a CoQ10 supplement. The best CoQ10 supplements are usually sold in a soft-gel form using Omega-3 rich fish oil. Since CoQ10 is a fat soluble substance, this allows the body to absorb the CoQ10 even when on a low-fat diet.

Finally, look for fish oil based CoQ10 supplements with added Vitamin E. Besides being a complementary antioxidants to CoQ10, the Vitamin E prevents the fish oil from becoming rancid by blocking oxidation.

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