Health Alert 294
The next time you hear a doctor say that there is no evidence that you need any supplements, ask him how he figures you’re going to get your fill of coenzyme Q10, (CoQ10).
There’s a good chance you’re deficient of this critical nutrient that powers every cell in your body. Having a lack of CoQ10 puts you on the fast track to heart disease, cancer and a host of other illnesses. Yet CoQ10 is one of the most neglected nutrients on the planet. So neglected in fact, I decided to study it myself.
Today, you’ll be the first to discover the results of my own clinical experiments with CoQ10. After two years of testing, my research organization – The Wellness Research Foundation – is ready to reveal some startling results.
I’ll share with you some new applications for this important nutrient.
When we did our first testing, the prevalence of gross deficiency surprised even me. 85% of my patients were deficient of CoQ10!CoQ10 is essential for the production of energy. It plays a key role in the production of ATP – the basic energy molecule of each cell.
After two years of research, I can tell you there’s a good chance you too are deficient. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to get enough CoQ10 from a typical American diet. The best dietary source is red meat. This has problems.
- The modern food production industry has polluted our red meat supply with herbicides, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and industrial chemicals.
- These pollutants collect in the fat. This is also the portion of the meat with the CoQ10.
- Just like in us, the CoQ10 concentrates in the animal’s internal organs. We no longer each much organ meat.
- Animals produce CoQ10 for high output “high octane fuel”. Because of domesticated livestock’s abnormal diet and docile lifestyle, CoQ10 has only 1/10th the concentration in livestock that it has in wild game.
So supplementation would seem like the logical thing to do, right? Well, critics often claim that because CoQ10 is fat soluble, you don’t absorb it in a pill and supplementation does nothing to raise the levels of CoQ10 in your blood. To expose this folly, I also researched this question.
In my most recent study, I tracked blood levels of CoQ10 in several hundred of my own patients. The results are clear. After supplementation, the average measured blood level of CoQ10 in the group increased by 71%.
I’ve been telling you all along that CoQ10 is critical for heart health. Now recent reports from hospitals around the country show that up to 75% of heart disease patients have low levels of CoQ10.(1) And, there are more benefits coming to light:
- Longer Life:Experiments with mice show that supplementing with CoQ10 increased their lifespan by up to 56%.(2)
- Cancer Treatment: Two dramatic studies of women with breast cancer proved that daily treatment of CoQ10 helped reversed their condition.(3)
- CoQ10 is a remarkable antioxidant. Multiple studies show that its ability to fight free radicals is second to none.
- Gum Disease: Patients receiving 25mg of CoQ10, twice a day showed significant reversal of gum disease.(4)
I suggest you supplement with a minimum of 100 mg a day. If you have high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol, gingivitis, age related memory loss, chronic fatigue or are a vegetarian, increase your dose to 200 mg per day.
CoQ10 is available at most nutrition stores but you may have to do some searching to find the adequate therapeutic doses I recommend. Coenzyme Q10 is soluble in oil only. Don’t waste your money on powdered forms. You should eat some kind of fat or oil when you take your CoQ10 and you will absorb more of it into your blood where you need it.
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD
(1) Folkers K, Wolaniuk J, Simonsen R, et al. Biochemical rationale and the cardiac response of patients with muscle disease to therapy with coenzyme Q10. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 1985 Jul; 82(13):4513-4516.
(2) Bliznakov, E.G. Coenzyme Q10, the immune system, and aging, in: Biomedical and Clinical Aspects of Coenzyme Q, Vol. 3, By K. Folkers, and Y. Yamamura, (eds), Elsevier-North Holland, Amsterdam, 1981.
(3) Lockwood, K., Moesgaard, S., and Folkers, K. Partial and complete regression of breast cancer in patients in relation to dosage of CoQ10. Biochem Biophys Res Comm 1994, 199: 3, 1504-1508.
(4) Wilkinson, E.G. et al, Bioenergetics in clinical medicine VI. Adjunctive treatment of periodontal disease with CoQ10. Res Comm Chem Pathol Pharmacol Aug. 1976; 14(4): 715-719.