CoQ10 75 mg

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) has long been considered an essential nutrient for cardiac health because of its role in boosting cellular energy. When CoQ10 is orally administered, it works its way into the cells' mitochondria (the cells' powerhouses) where it helps to convert fats and sugars into energy. Thus, scientists have focused on its critical role in heart function.

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is also a powerful antioxidant that protects the body from free radicals and helps preserve vitamin E, a major vitamin for the maintenance of a healthy heart.CoQ10 is also called ubiquinone, a name that signifies its ubiquitous (widespread) distribution in the human body. CoQ10 is used by the body to transform food into the energy on which the body runs, ATP. Where is it found? CoQ10 is found primarily in fish and meat, but the amounts in food are far less than what can be obtained from supplements.

Cholesterol reducing drugs called Statins are becoming widely and help in reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes by blocking the body’s ability to produce LDL (Bad) Cholesterol. However, the irony is that these very same drugs are also associated with heart failure by disrupting the body’s production of Coenzyme Q10.

According to expert Dr Peter Langsjoen of East Texas Medical Centre and Trinity Mother Frances Hospital, the cause of heart failure is heart muscle weakness due to depletion of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) which is essential for supplying energy to cells – particularly heart muscle. “Statins are prescribed aggressively and very widely now”, says Dr Langsjoen.

Whilst they can reduce cholesterol by say 40 or 50%, they however also reduce CoQ10 by the same amount. In fact recently in Canada every pack of Statins now carries a warning that taking Statins could seriously deplete CoQ10 levels in the body.