CoEnzyme Q10

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CoEnzyme Q10

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CoEnzimye Q10

 

CoQ10 appears to help ignite the cellular power stations that are necessary

to maintain healthy cells. In other words, CoQ10 works by enhancing energy at

the cellualer level. CoQ10 is a natural substance that is produced by your

body. It's highly concentrated in heart muscle cells, which need all the energy

they can get to keep your heart pumping over one hundred thoudand times per

day. CoQ10 is an immune system booster and antioxidant that helps you to avoid

getting cancer, and may be helpful in treating it. It is available in any

vitamin store.

 

 

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CoEnzyme Q10 - The Other Vitamin

 

The startling fact is that CoEnzyme Q10 is a vitamin essential to our very

lives, yet very few of us have ever heard about it until recently. Discovered in

1957 by Dr. Fred Crane at the University of Wisconsin, CoEnzyme Q10 is a

nutrient necessary to the functioning of every cell in our bodies. Our bodies

could not survive without CoEnzyme Q10. If body levels start dropping, so does

our

general health. Scientists have estimated that once body levels of CoQ10 drop

below the 25% deficiency levels, many health problems begin to flourish,

including high blood pressure, heart attacks, angina, immune system depression,

periodontal problems, lack of energy, weight gain, and even early death! A 75%

drop in CoQ10 levels is fatal.

 

 

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Benefits

 

Coenzyme Q10â„¢ is found in every cell in the human body and is key to the

process that produces 95% of the energy consumed at the cellular level.

 

It participates in this important role by acting as part of another class of

substances, known as enzymes. These important compounds are proteins found in

plants, animals, humans - ALL living things. Their role is to facilitate, to

act as a catalysts, in countless chemical reactions that take place in the

human body. In essence, they make reactions happen without themselves being

consumed in the reaction. When calcium is turned into bone, and enzyme makes the

reaction possible, but the enzyme itself does not end up becoming part of the

bone. When we digest our food, when we flex a muscle, when our heart beats, in

some way an enzyme is playing a key role.

 

Enzymes consist of two parts, a protein portion made up of one of a variety

of amino acids, and a cofactor portion that is either a mineral (like calcium,

magnesium, or zinc) or a vitamin, the vitamin is called a coenzyme.

 

Coenzyme Q10 is a naturally occurring molecule that has a structure similar

to vitamin K.

 

As part of an enzyme, it acts as a catalyst in the vital biochemical pathway

that leads to cellular energy production.

 

Specifically, every cell must have a special substance known as ATP

(adenosine triphosphate), which provides all the cell's energy. The energy

obtained

from the food we eat is used to make this fuel for the cells, and when a cell

needs energy, it breaks the bonds that hold the ATP molecule together. When this

chemical bond is broken, it releases energy equivalent to approx. 7,000

calories, more than twice the energy a person consumes in an entire day.

However,

the body, at any given time, only stores enough ATP to sustain vigorous activity

for 5 - 8 minutes. Thus, ATP must be produced constantly, and for this ATP to

be produced, there must be a ready supply of CoQ10.

 

This explains why, in particular, COQ10 is found in high concentrations in

muscle cells and especially in the muscles that form the heart - because the

heart is constantly in motion, it creates a great demand for energy, and at the

same time, a need for the CoQ10 to create it.

 

 

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Preventative Value of CoEnzyme Q10 (CoQ10)

 

Numerous studies have shown that pre-treatment with CoQ10 helps heart

patients come through open heart surgeries in better health and with shorter

recovery

times than those who have not been so treated. This is because CoQ10

possesses the ability to protect the heart during periods of aschemia, or oxygen

deprivation. Miraculously, CoQ10 has helped cardiomyopathy patients to live well

beyond their usual life expectancies! Perhaps more importantly, supplementation

with CoQ10 has a preventative effect--preventative against lack of oxygen,

poor Vitamin and mineral supplementation, and against certain heart medications.

Yes, heart medications. Strange as it may seem, certain heart medications that

are prescribed to reduce cholesterol levels actually block the production of

CoQ10!

 

 

 

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How Does CoQ10 Work?

 

CoEnzyme Q10 is also known as ubiquinone, a member of the quinone cyclic

compounds such as Vitamins E and K. CoQ10 can supply or remove oxygen from

biologically active molecules. Every cell in your body contains many

intercellular

components called mitochondria, which produce 95% of the total energy of the

body. CoQ10 is an integral part of the membranes of the mitochondria where it is

involved in the production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the basic energy

molecules of the cell. Supplementing CoQ10 aids in the body's cellular

respiration and energy production; it's that simple.

 

 

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Why Haven't I Heard Of CoQ10?

 

The answer to this question should probably be posted front and center on our

home page. The answer is there's no money to be made from unpatentable

substances. No money, no promotion.

 

 

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The institute for Biomedical Research, University of Texas at Austin gave

mice pretreatment of Coenzyme Q10 before Adriamycin. The control groups had only

a 36 and 42 percent survival rate. The Coenzyme Q10 groups had an 80 and 86

percent survival rate.

 

A Dr. Carl Folkers is quoted as discussing a 49-year old lung cancer patient

who at that time had been taking CoQ10 supplements for five years and was able

to avoid the heart problems associated with long-term Adriamycin use. After

careful manipulation, it was discovered that maximum efficiency in heart output

came with 60 mg of CoQ10, so he was given 100 mg to be on the safe side. At

the time of the report the man was well and still in remission. Bliznakow,

Emile, and Hunt, Gerald, " The Miracle Nutrient Coenzyme Q10 " , pages 132-139,

Banam

Books, New York.

 

 

Thirty-two women with metastatic breast cancer received 90 mg of CoQ10, along

with Vitamin C, E, betacarotene, and essential fatty acids, daily. In six

cases the tumor became smaller. During the 18 month treatment period, none of

the

patients died (the expected number of deaths was four), and none showed signs

of further distant metastases.

 

In another report, two women with metastatic breast cancer received 390 mg

per day of CoQ10. One of the patients was a 44-year-old woman with numerous

liver metastases. After treatment for 11 months with CoQ10, all of the liver

metastases had disappeared and the patient was reported to be in good health

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I have been checking out the Q10, but what decides how much you take?

I have seen it from 50 mg to 400 mg!

 

marti

On Monday, September 3, 2007, at 10:57 AM, surpriseshan2 wrote:

 

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> CoEnzyme Q10

> http://curezone.com/foods/coenzymeq10.asp

 

 

 

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, " Archie Doughman "

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> Aside from the over-the counter supplements, I would like to know

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> fruits, vegetables or other foods rich in CoEnzyme Q10?

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Hi Archie,

 

I've read that there are very small amounts in foods like beef, organ

meats, soyoil, sardines, makerel and peanuts.

 

The examples they gave to show how small the amount is to equal 30 mg

of COQ10, you'd have to eat a pound of sardines, 2 lbs. of beef, or 2

1/2 lbs. of peanuts.

 

 

Jean