USE OF CoQ10 TO TREAT MALIGNANCIES: Breast Cancer, etc

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" JanPM " <pipersmama

Tue Dec 23, 2003 9:58 pm

Interesting article on CoQ10

USE OF CoQ10 TO TREAT MALIGNANCIES

 

By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.

December 23, 2003

NewsWithViews.com

 

Biochemist, Dr. Karl Folkers, Ph.D, was employed by Merck where he

discovered vitamin B12 and learned how to make a synthetic version

of it that sold all over the world ending pernicious anemia. He was

considered for a Nobel Prize but did not win this honor.

 

He had become very interested in CoQ10 which Merck could not pursue

because it was not patentable as a natural substance.

 

Dr. Folkers had learned that CoQ10 was able to slow the progression

of muscular dystrophy. After leaving Merck he took a position as

professor at the University of Texas in about 1965.

 

CoQ10 is found in every cell in the body. Animal species have

exhibited a direct correlation between CoQ10 levels and longevity.

 

[1] The use of statin drugs produces significant falls in CoQ blood

levels which may be the reason for the rising incidence of heart

failure as statin drugs are widely used in the U.S. to lower

cholesterol.

 

Administration of CoQ10 improves energy output by the

mitochondria of the cell.

 

This improved energy output from CoQ10 therapy has proven to be

quite valuable in treating neurologic disorders[2] such as

Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral

sclerosis, post-polio syndrome, Alzheimer's

Disease, and strokes.

 

While at the U. of Texas Dr. Folkers encouraged

a cardiologist, Dr. Peter Langsjoen, to use CoQ10 to treat

congestive heart failure with wonderful results.

 

Dr. Langsjoen stated " The clinical experience with CoQ10 is nothing

short of dramatic. It is reasonable to believe that the entire field

of medicine should be reevaluated in light of this growing

knowledge " .

 

Some patients at the U. of Texas with heart failure received CoQ10

but this therapy did not become adopted as a standard approach by

conventional physicians.

 

Dr. Folkers followed the course of 6 patients, who had cancer, who

were taking CoQ10 for congestive heart failure until 1993.

 

Four of them had lung cancer and 2 had breast cancer. All 6

experienced remissions of cancer thought to be due to CoQ10 therapy.

Dr. Folkers recommended the use of 500 mg. of CoQ daily in patients

with malignancies.

 

Dr. Folkers began to raise money to pursue his dream of using CoQ10

to treat malignancies.

Folkers persuaded one of his financial backers, who had developed

small cell carconoma of the lung with widespread metastasis, to try

CoQ10 by pointing out that CoQ10 would do no harm and it might help.

 

His oncologist had advised him he had less than a year to live. He

began to feel better and had no sign of metastases one year later.

Fifteen years after the cancer diagnosis he remained well and free

of metastases.

 

The only therapy he received was CoQ10.

 

In 1980 Dr. Folkers funded a trial of CoQ10 for breast cancer

conducted by Dr. Kund Lockwood in Denmark. Dr. Lockwood treated 2

patients with breast cancer one with 300 mg. of CoQ 10 daily and the

other with 360 mg. daily. Both recovered.

 

Dr. William Judy of Bradenton, Fl. received funding from Dr. Folkers

to treat prostate cancer with CoQ10. Cancer of the prostate is

typically hormone dependent at it's onset and is effectively treated

then by hormone inhibition.

 

However, after two to five years it often becomes independent of

hormone therapy and no amount of hormone

inhibition at that stage is beneficial.

 

Dr. Judy found 30 patients with hormone independent prostate cancer

and treated them with 500 mg. of Coenzyme Q10 daily.

 

Fourteen of the 15 who had no metastases to bone or lung proceeded

to have their PSA values return to normal. Of the 15 patients who

did have metastases to bone and lung when they started CoQ10 8 saw

their PSA results return to normal suggesting improvement..

 

Dr. Judy then treated 6 patients with prostate cancer and elevated

PSA values with CoQ10 and all 6 had their elevated PSA values return

to normal after 120 days

of CoQ 10 therapy (500 mg.) daily. Political problems prevented him

from publishing these results and Dr. Folkers death in 1998 has

terminated all interest in CoQ10 as a therapy for cancer which is

unfortunate.

 

Dr. Judy suggests a way to improve the absorption of CoQ10 capsules

into the blood stream. Put the capsules of CoQ10 in hot tea which

melts them. CoQ10 needs fat to get improved absorption. Add a

teaspoon of coconut oil preferably but organic butter will also

work. Drink the tea warm or hot.

 

The lack of interest in CoQ10 by the pharmaceutical companies as a

cancer therapy is caused by their inability to patent it. This

should

have no effect on patients looking for a safe cancer therapy that

seems to work quite well. CoQ10 can be found in health food stores

and is available in a readily absorbable melt form from Natural

Health Team at 1-800-416-2806.

 

I am deeply grateful to biochemist Wayne Martin for providing me

with

this information about CoQ 10 and cancer. Mr. Martin was a good

friend of Dr. Folkers for many years.

 

 

 

Footnotes:

 

1 Lass A Comparisons of Coenxyme Q bound to mitochondrial membrane

proteins among different mammalian species. Free Radical Biology and

Medicine 27 (1/2):220-26, 1999

2 Perlmutter David Brain Recovery.com pg 22, 55, 70-71, 91-2, 113-4,

144-5

 

 

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Dr. James A. Howenstine is a board certified specialist in internal

medicine who spent 34 years caring for office and hospital patients.

Curiosity sparked a 4 year study of natural health products when 5

of

his patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis were able to

discontinue the use of methotrexate (chemotherapy agent) after

trying

an extract of New Zealand mussels for the therapy of severe

rheumatoid arthritis.

 

Dr. Howenstine is convinced that natural products are safer, more

effective and less expensive than pharmaceutical drugs. This

research

led to the publication of his book 'A Physicians Guide To Natural

Health Products That Work'. This book and the recommended health

products are available from www.naturalhealthteam.com and by calling

1-800-416-2806 U.S.A. E-Mail: jimhow

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