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There are numerous benefits to supplementing with CoQ10.
Because it is essential for the optimum production of cellular energy, CoQ10 enhances stamina and improves the body’s overall state of health. As a powerful antioxidant, it also protects against free radicals, strengthens the immune system and fosters resistance to disease.
Over the last 30 years, thousands of studies have been conducted and published on CoQ10 benefits for maintaining optimum health and healthy aging. Some of the areas of clinical interest include:
Cardiovascular Health
In Japan, CoQ10 has been an approved drug for congestive heart failure since 1974. In the decades since, many trials and research has shown CoQ10 to be beneficial for patients suffering from various myocardial diseases due to the continuously high energy need and high oxidative stress in the heart. See clinical
trials.
Skin
Health & Beauty
Studies have found that CoQ10 shallows wrinkles and results in reduction of the skin’s upper-most layer. In fact, several studies indicate that CoQ10 levels in the skin are replenished by both internal and topical application, with optimal benefit coming from a combination.
Neurodegenerative
(Parkinson’s,
Huntington’s,
ALS and Alzheimer’s Disease)
CoQ10 has been shown to be “neuroprotective” in animal models of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, and has exhibited efficacy in human trials for Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS, and other age-related pathologies. In a major National Institutes of Health-funded study on Parkinson’s patients, supplemental CoQ10 resulted in slowing disability by 44 percent and exhibited an improvement on all three subscores of the UPDRS (Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale), including mental score, activities of daily living score and motor score.
Based on the results of Phase II clinical trials, the NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) is seeking FDA approval for Phase III clinical trials of CoQ10 for Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and ALS.
Cancer
Low blood levels of CoQ10 have been reported in patients with malignancies other than breast cancer, including myaloma, lynphoma, and cancers of the lung, prostate, pancreas, colon, kidney and head and neck. In part because of its immunostimulatory potential, CoQ10 has been used as an adjuvant therapy in patients with various types of cancer.
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