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CoQ10 (ubiquinone)
Super-Energizer and Potent Antioxidant
CoQ10 is a naturally-occurring
antioxidant produced in the human body. It is vitally involved in
energy production. CoQ10 functions as an "energizer" to
mitochondria, the body's energy producing units. Mitochondria, which
produce energy the body's "energy currency," ATP, require CoQ10 to
"spark" their production of energy units (ATP). Muscles, and the
heart in particular, have high requirements for CoQ10.
CoQ10 is a potent antioxidant beneficial
for:
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Heart Disease (angina, arrhythmia, atherosclerosis,
cardiomyopathy, heart failure, congestive heart failure,
myocardial infarction (1-18)
- High Blood Pressure
(1,3,4,14, 53, 55)
- Neurological disease
(Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's) (19-37)
- Immune deficiency and AIDS
(40-45,52)
- Periodontal disease
(38-39)
- Cancer (40, 44-49)
- Chemotherapy side-effects
(50-52)
- Diabetes (53-56)
- Muscular dystrophy
(57-58)
- fatigue / chronic fatigue /
fibromyalgia (59-61)
- migraine headache
(62-63)
- enhancing athletic
performance (64-68)
-
male infertility (69-73)
CoQ10 is produced by the body, but
age, nutrient deficiencies, disease and some medications can lower
the body's CoQ10 levels.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins) deplete CoQ10.
(15,54,74-77)
Studies have shown that the
oil-preserved form is up to 3 times better absorbed than other
forms. (78-80)
Although many claims are currently made for a "new" form (ubiquinol)
being "more absorbable" than ubiquinone, this has never been proven
or well-studied. Learn more about this issue here:
Ubiquinone (CoQ10) versus Ubiquinol: Which Is Better?
Suggested dose:
50-100 mg per day for health maintenance
and anti-aging / longevity programs.
200 to 400 mg per day for heart problems, cancer, weight loss
programs and other indications.
Studies performed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
using Vitaline ™ brand CoQ10, have used
300-400 mg per day.
Each Capsule contains:
50 or 100 mg capsules are Wellness Club brand oil-preserved
CoQ10 in easy to swallow gel Caps with Vitamin E & Beta carotene as
natural preservatives.
300 and 400mg tablets are Vitaline/Integrative Therapeutics chewable
wafers, the exact formulas used in the NIH Parkinson's trials.
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