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Is CoQ10 Critical For Good Health

Posted by Dan Hammer //

06/01/2021

Of all the supplements in the market, there are a few that are critical to your health. Coenzyme Q10 or CoQ10 is one of them. This key nutrient has long been associated with heart health. New research shows how CoQ10 helps with the following:

Improves Metabolic Syndrome
Enhances Exercise Performance
Protects Your Heart Muscle
Increases Blood Flow
Increases Cellular Energy
Helps Reduce Inflammation
Protects Your Liver

CoQ10 is a coenzyme that helps facilitate the creation of energy for all cells.

Within every cell are mitochondria. Mitochondria are the batteries or power generators. They convert the stored energy of the nutrients you consume into an energy form that your cells can use to perform their function.

CoQ10 is a critical component in this process.

Without CoQ10 your cellular energy system will fail and your cells will not function properly.

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The pharmaceutical industry has observed this through the use of statin drugs. While statins do a great job in helping to lower your cholesterol, they interfere with your liver’s ability to create CoQ10 for your body. This has lead to an increase in congestive heart failure.

Fortunately, physicians are finally acknowledging this need for CoQ10. It’s reported that approximately 70% of cardiologists will prescribe CoQ10 for their heart disease patients. Read More →

Statin Drugs and CoQ10

Posted by Dan Hammer //

09/22/2020

If you are on cholesterol lowering medication, then you need to know about statin drugs and CoQ10. Statin drugs are designed to interfere with the liver’s production of cholesterol. This interference can significantly reduce the cholesterol levels in your blood stream.

Statin drugs also have some significant side effects like fatigue and muscle pain.

But what usually gets overlooked is that statins deplete CoQ10 from your body. The same pathway that produces cholesterol in the liver also produces CoQ10.

CoQ10 is a needed energy source for multiple organ system. Two of which are your heart and kidneys.

As you age your body’s ability to naturally produce CoQ10 declines with age. For example, on average CoQ10 levels decrease by the following percentage when compared to age 20:

For Your Kidneys: 27% reduction by age 40 and a 35% reduction by age 80.
For Your Heart: 32% reduction by age 40 and a 57% reduction by age 80.

If your physician has you on a statin drug, then this can drive your CoQ10 levels even lower.

To help you better understand this decrease, there is a 2004 study that looked at the effects statin drugs had on CoQ10 blood levels. The average age of the study participants was 70 years old. At the start of the study the baseline levels of blood CoQ10 was 1.26 mcg/mL.

After 14 days on a statin drug the CoQ10 blood levels dropped to .67 mcg/mL. And at the 30 day mark they were down to .62 mcg/mL.

This was a 49% reduction. And most of this reduction occurred in the first two weeks.

Optimal blood levels of CoQ10 for normal people without heart disease should be between 2 – 3 mcg/mL. And for heart failure patients, it is recommended that their CoQ10 blood levels be around 4 mcg/mL or higher.

As you can clearly see by this study, statin drugs lowered blood CoQ10 to dangerously low levels.

This is why statin drugs and CoQ10 is a very serious matter.

Additionally, statin drugs also interfere with the synthesis of vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 is needed to regulate calcium levels in the blood stream.

It does this by keeping calcium in the bones where is belongs.

Without proper vitamin K2 levels, calcium can enter epithelial cells causing hardening of arteries, heart, and kidneys.

All of these statin effects can lead to other health issues like muscle pain, cramps, weakness, and a feeling of tiredness.

In a 2018 meta-analysis of 12 randomized, controlled trials two key observations were noted: Read More →

CoQ10 Benefits Your Skin

Posted by Dan Hammer //

06/01/2019

New research is showing that CoQ10 benefits your skin. In one of my previous articles about CoQ10 I showed how this critical molecule helps with:

Heart Health
Brain Health
Metabolic Function
Kidney Function
Bone Health

Now I want to help you understand how CoQ10 benefits your skin. It all centers on what is called the mitochondrial theory of aging.

CoQ10 and Mitochondrial Theory of Aging

This energy source is called adenosine triphosphate or ATP.

As we age our mitochondria are damaged. The three main causes are oxidative stress, toxins, and inflections. This damage then reduces the energy production of the mitochondria.

Our mitochondria become less efficient in processing our food resulting in less ATP. This results in less energy for the cell to carry out its normal functions. And here is where CoQ10 can help. Read More →

CoQ10 Benefits Go Beyond Heart Health

Posted by Dan Hammer //

01/01/2019

Most people understand that CoQ10 benefits heart health. Even the pharmaceutical industry understands this especially as it applies to the effects of statin drugs in interfering with your liver’s ability to naturally produce CoQ10.

For example, the 1989 patent application by pharmaceutical giant Merck revealed the need for CoQ10 since statin drugs deplete this needed energy compound in your body. Here’s a quote from part of their patent application:

“Since CoQ10 is of benefit in congestive heart failure patients, the combination with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) should be of value in such patients who also have the added risk of high cholesterol levels.”

Most statins effectively interfere with your liver’s ability to create cholesterol. Unfortunately they also interfere with your liver’s ability to create CoQ10, which is a needed coenzyme for proper energy production.

Why Merck, and other pharmaceutical companies, didn’t create a drug that combined a statin with CoQ10 is a mystery.

And, as statins were promoted by the pharmaceutical industry for the control of cholesterol, little was done to counter the side effects caused by these statin drugs.

Fortunately physicians are finally acknowledging this need for CoQ10. It’s reported that approximately 70% of cardiologists will prescribe CoQ10 for their heart disease patients.

But the purpose of this post is to help you understand that CoQ10 benefits go beyond heart health.

Why?

Because CoQ10 is a coenzyme that helps facilitate the creation of energy for all cells. And current research is revealing that CoQ10 can benefit brain, bone, and metabolic health while also reducing mortality. Read More →

CoQ10 For Heart Health

Posted by Dan Hammer //

06/01/2018

With the increase use of statin drugs there has been an increased need for CoQ10 for heart health.

I just recently did a presentation on a natural way to low cholesterol. In that presentation I examined the medical communities’ use of statin drugs to lower cholesterol. And two very clear issues presented themselves:

Statin drugs interfere with your liver’s ability to create CoQ10, which then reduces CoQ10 levels in the body.

There is a direct correlation with the increase use of statin drugs and an increase in congestive heart failure.

This increase in congestive heart failure would make sense since CoQ10 is a necessary component for cellular energy.

In a large study of older adults with heart failure issues, it was clearly noted that those with CoQ10 levels below a certain threshold were twice as likely to die when compared to those who had CoQ10 levels above that threshold. Read More →