Almost everyone’s heard of Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling.
But have you ever heard of Dr. William Kaufman?
Dr. Kaufman was a pioneer in the field of curing patients with nutritional therapy. He was the first to use high doses of vitamin B3 to treat arthritis sufferers.
He passed away in the year 2000 and people in the know regard him as one of the finest doctors of the 20th century.
I’ve always remembered something he wrote in his remarkable book, The Common Form of Joint Dysfunction: The lack of only a single nutrient can cause diverse problems in the human body.
I think about this every time I recommend that one of my patients take CoQ10. It’s the one nutrient almost everyone in the modern world is deficient in.
CoQ10 powers every single cell in your body and boosts your energy. It’s so important that revealing how CoQ10 works won Peter Mitchell the Nobel Prize in 1978.
Since that discovery, mainstream doctors have still not caught on to CoQ10’s importance. But the real pioneers in the fields of integrative medicine and nutritional therapy have, and they agree with me: Everyone needs CoQ10.
- One of the first doctors to become famous for his theories on eating right to stay healthy recommends coenzyme Q10 to anyone concerned about their heart. He takes take 120 mg daily himself.
- Another well-known heart doctor believes in CoQ10 so strongly that he filed two citizens’ petitions with the Food and Drug Administration. The petitions call on the FDA to change the labeling of all statin drugs warning consumers of their need for CoQ10 if they are taking statins.
- A pioneer in the field of CoQ10 research wrote in his 2008 study of CoQ10 and heart function that supplemental CoQ10 alters the natural history of cardiovascular [health]. It [supports] the maintenance of optimal cellular and mitochondrial function throughout the ravages of time and internal and external stresses.
- The author of a bestselling book on CoQ10 said he believes it would be unthinkable to practice good cardiology without the help of coenzyme Q10.
- The famous medical consultant, lecturer and editor-in-chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine suggests supplementing with CoQ10 to spark your metabolism and aid in energy production and fat loss.
- Another complementary care physician who’s well known through the Internet and talk shows calls CoQ10 the “single most critical nutrient to energize every cell in your body.” He also writes, “Premature aging is one primary side effect of having too little.”
But even though these pioneers also recommend CoQ10, there’s something you should know:
CoQ10 is not an easy nutrient to get, or absorb.
For example, I like that you are able to get some CoQ10 from food. But CoQ10 concentrates in organ meat. Organs like the brain, kidneys, heart and lungs use the most CoQ10, so it collects there.
But we don’t eat organ meat any more. Especially not fresh organ meat. What are you going to do, get a bow and arrow and hunt game in your backyard, kill it, and eat the organs raw? Not exactly practical. And most people would say, “Yuck!”
Another issue is that CoQ10 is fat-soluble. You need to have fat intake to use it, but good luck getting healthy fats from any of today’s food.
The need for CoQ10 is probably the strongest argument I know of to take a supplement that I know of. I tell everyone who will listen to take a CoQ10 supplement.
But, if you take the wrong form, you’re just passing a lot of very expensive CoQ10 on in your stool. That’s why I recommend the reduced form of CoQ10, ubiquinol. Your bloodstream can absorb it much more easily. And it’s higher blood levels that make a difference.
But, there’s something else you should know about CoQ10 that no one else is talking about.
As good as ubiquinol CoQ10 is by itself, you can multiply the energy and protection of CoQ10.
All you have to do is combine it with a special “energy multiplier” nutrient that triggers a huge increase in cellular energy. You FEEL the effect with every step you take. I’ll tell you all about it in tomorrow’s Doctor’s House Call, so be sure to look for it.
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD