Coenzyme Q-10
Without Coenzyme Q-10 in your cells, you can not produce energy. You
are dependent upon your diet and your liver to provide you with optimum
amounts. Body production of Coenzyme Q-10 declines with age.
- For longevity and, youthfulness
- Immune support
- Strong heart
- Healthy gums and complexion
- Lessens damaging effects of chemotherapy and other toxins
- Sharpens and clears eye sight
- Increases sexual energy
- Antioxidant
- Supports cancer fighting immune system especially in breast cancer
- Reduces age spots and helps clear toxic debris out of cells.
Very early after age 20, your liver output of Coenzyme Q-10 begins to decline.
By age 40 the decline is substantial and its shortage begins first to
show up in an increased fat level, lowered physical ambition, a shrinking
of your effective work day, less frequent and less vigorous sexual activity,
and eventually, very often as gum disease. Your heart is perhaps the most
vital Coenzyme Q-10 consuming community of cells, however, your immune system isn't
far behind.
Your liver itself requires Coenzyme Q-10 for energy to produce Coenzyme Q-10 and other
enzymes. Without sufficient Coenzyme Q-10, your production of all enzymes enters
the downward spiral characteristic of aging, and all the signs from poor
health to reduced physical mobility and slow-mindedness begin to set in.
Because your brain cells are the very same original brain cells you
had in your mother's womb, they are ancient compared to blood cells
or intestinal lining cells, which are replaced weekly or even more often.
You either protect your brain cells or they go off-line for good. They
aren't replaced. You get no second chance to treat them better next
time. Anyone who has seen senile dementia or Alzheimer's understands
how precious are the basic brain functions that some people neglect and
take for granted.
Coenzyme Q-10 is the precious fountain-of-youth in this category as it is essential
to provide the spark of life to keep these irreplaceable cells alive and
healthy - and - Coenzyme Q-10 is the one antioxidant uniquely poised right within
the mitochondria (energy producing structures of the cells) to degrade
the metabolic byproducts of life-energy production before they can damage
the submicroscopic machinery of the mitochondria - or before these toxins
can escape to attack the surrounding equipment and genetic blueprint required
for maintaining healthy chemistry of your brain cells.
Coenzyme Q-10, also known as Ubiquinone, is a vitamin-like substance that resembles
Vitamin E but is an even more powerful antioxidant. There are 10 common
Coenzyme Q's, but Coenzyme Q-10 is the only one found in human tissue. As
we age, Coenzyme Q-10 tissue levels decrease until at age 40 we have only 64%
of the Coenzyme Q-10 that we had at 20, while when we reach age 80, we measure
only 36% of our age 20 tissue Coenzyme Q-10 count. Coenzyme Q-10 is the cellular component
(quinone) which is a cyclic compound found in every cell of the body.
Coenzyme Q can exist in three oxidation states: the fully reduced ubiquinol
form (CoQH2), the radical semiquinone intermediate (CoQH·), and
the fully oxidized ubiquinone form (CoQ).
Eating foods cooked or processed destroys the Coenzyme Q-10 and/or the substrates,
which our body would convert into replacing depleted Coenzyme Q-10 tissue stores.
(Pure Coenzyme Q-10 is a bright yellow in its active form, but once it is exposed
to light or 115 degrees heat it is rendered inactive.) Eating foods rich
in Coenzyme Q-10 (sardines, green vegetables, cereals, and raw nuts) will spare
Coenzyme Q-10 tissue losses.
Modern research supports the benefits to both performance and health
by oral supplementation of Coenzyme Q-10 The New England Institute reports that
Coenzyme Q-10 alone is effective in reducing mortality in experimental animals
suffering from tumors and leukemia.
Other research projects have substantiated further health benefits from
Coenzyme Q-10 supplementation against allergies, asthma, respiratory disease,
schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, candidiasis, multiple
sclerosis, periodontal disease, diabetes, cancer, and most recently AIDS.
Studies have shown that reduced levels of Coenzyme Q-10 contribute directly to
the aging process, while increasing Coenzyme Q-10 intake will actually retard
and slow down the effects of "Father Time" on all of us. Similar
studies have noted conclusively that Coenzyme Q-10 supplementation reduces the
risk of heart attack, increases respiration efficiency in the heart muscle,
lowers blood pressure, and enhances immune system functions. Testimonies
abound of Exsula Iridesca's effectiveness with many of these conditions.
We recommend it highly in our LEC anti-aging programs.
Specific Studies On Coenzyme Q-10... Irrefutable Proof
In blood and tissue samples taken from patients suffering from cardiomyopathy,
Coenzyme Q-10 was found to be deficient in two separate independent studies.
Clinical observation of Coenzyme Q-10 supplementation appears to give symptomatic
relief to chronic fatigue syndrome in patients studied in two separate
and independent research projects. Oral ingestion of Coenzyme Q-10 was found
to activate macrophages, hence enhancing immune system function significantly.
In double blind studies and in individual case reports, neuromuscular
neurogenic atrophies of both skeletal and cardiac muscle were shown to
improve functionally after oral ingestion of Coenzyme Q-10
Obesity treated with 100 mg. Coenzyme Q-10 doses orally contributed to increased
weight loss rates in two separate and independent studies of obese individuals
on restricted calorie intake. Obese people, like the cardiomyopathic patients
listed above, tend be deficient in Coenzyme Q-10 tissue and blood level sampling.
Results from rat studies suggest that oral ingestion of Coenzyme Q-10 will raise
blood and tissue levels of this important health nutrient. The rats with
the highest tissue levels were exercised long enough to induce injury,
but performed extreme endurance exercise without injury, while the control
group of non-supplemented rats received exercise-induced injuries. This
strongly suggests that Coenzyme Q-10 supplements may provide a protective-preventative
effect from exercise-induced endurance injury.
We support the understanding that Synergy is invaluable when considering
nutritional alternatives to healthy immune system support. Isolates, (isolated
concentrated vitamins and ingredients) lack the cohesiveness of blended
Superfoods that contain a wide range of essential phytonutrients in live-form
high concentrated enzyme-rich "Exsula" products.
There are many liquid soft gel products ranging from about $15-$40 for
sixty 50mg gels. It is important that the product is carefully tested
for potency. Most of the bargain(??) basement offerings are little more
than rice powder with yellow dye. Compare the cost of Coenzyme Q-10 in isolate
form with the Synergistic approach in Exsula Iridesca, and you'll
see, you can't lose when you invest in the best.
Q: If so many other nutrients are so vital, then what is the point of
the RDA?
A: You might look at it this way. The RDA is an old-ideology-based system
which is OK for a quick identification of a few of the basic nutrients,
which when lacking result in fairly rapid disease conditions - like Vitamin
C for scurvy, Folic Acid to prevent birth defects, or B-12 and Iron for
anemia. But even the term RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) is being modified
to Reference Daily Intake - no longer "recommended" but merely
a "reference."
Many of the non-RDA nutrients are equally vital for healthy functioning
of your cells, organs and systems, but because your body is able to hold-up
under deprivation of these nutrients for longer periods of time before
obvious disease sets in, no RDA was ever established. A perfect example
of this would be how a slight shortage of Lecithin may take decades to
manifest as cholesterol-clogged arteries. The body can work around this
eventual killer for many years before it becomes obvious and inescapable.
Also, the RDA system originated out of an era riddled with commercial
bias and incomplete scientific information. For example, there is an RDA
for Vitamin A but not for Carotene - even though Carotene is a safer,
more widely functioning source of Vitamin A.
The pre-formed "animal-form" of A is cheaper and less bulky,
so it got picked while the "plant-form," Carotene, got put off.
Then once Carotene did begin to gain recognition as a superior, more widely
beneficial form of Vitamin A, only one member of the diversely capable
Carotenoid family got selected - Beta-carotene (the easiest to synthesize).
Beta got all of the attention to the neglect of the other naturally-occurring
Carotenes - Luetin (for eyesight) Alpha Carotene ("Canthaxanthin"
- for a healthy tan) Xanthophylis, Lycopene, Cryptoxanthin, Echinenone,
Euglenanone and Zeaxanthin (for synergistic support of your immune system).
Two other examples - even though Coenzyme Q-10 and Lecithin are indisputably
vital for proper cellular functioning and for your health, these precious
nutrients won't get elected to RDA status because of a goofy technicality
- your liver can make them from other nutrients in your diet. Well, it
can do this while you are young anyway - while your liver is perfectly
healthy - and assuming you are getting a complete diet otherwise.
However, once you begin to age, the efficiency of your liver begins
to taper-off and your production of these nutrients drops along with it.
This decline is accompanied by all of the "normal" signs of
aging - lessened physical, sexual, mental and immune performance - the
look of aging (wrinkles, joint and circulatory problems, fat-gain and
muscle-loss and sag).
Not all of us consider these traits as normal, nor do we desire to experience
them 20 or 30 years prematurely. The Life Enthusiast's response to these
"minor" challenges is not centered around worshipping the god
of ink and paper called the RDA, but rather embraces all of the beneficial
nutrients provided by our Creator throughout living creation in the form
of nutrient-accumulating plants - the form your Designer and Maker provided
and specified.
CoEnzyme Q10 Is Essential for Healthy Hearts
Stable-unoxidised Co Q10 will increase your energy levels, increase
your VO2 reading without exercise, lower high blood pressure, detoxify
your body, reduce free radicals dramatically and aid the function of all
living cells - especially cells in the organs which require large amounts
of energy e.g. heart, brain, legs and the digestive system. It will also
slow the aging process, aid in the treatment of an array of diseases and
symptoms, regress some diseases, increase endurance and prevent the onset
of disease as we age.
Coenzyme Q-10 is the valuable, naturally occurring antioxidant necessary
for energy production in every cell of the body. Coenzyme Q-10 is a component
of every living cell, and as body levels of Coenzyme Q-10 drop, so does
the general status of health. Low levels can result in high blood pressure,
heart attack, angina, immune system depression, periodontal disease, lack
of energy and obesity. It is commonly referred to as Coenzyme Q-10 and
has actually been shown to extend life of laboratory animals. University
studies have shown that some overweight people have low levels of it and
supplementation can help to control body weight. As more energy is required,
the more Coenzyme Q-10 is needed in the diet, especially in the heart
and other tissues that require lots of energy.
Coenzyme Q10 Is Essential for Immune System
Coenzyme Q-10 is an integral part of the immune cycle. When body levels
of it are raised, the immune system can receive more help from antibiotic
and antiviral drugs. However, antibiotics do not help to rebuild the immune
system. On the other hand, Coenzyme Q-10 can naturally stimulate the immune
system and result in a wider range of beneficial and protective effects.
This vitamin like substance is found primarily in the heart muscle.
Like all muscles, the heart muscle needs adequate energy to contract,
and Coenzyme Q-10 facilitates the production of that energy. In people with
coronary heart disease, supplementation reduces the frequency of anginal
episodes and increases the amount of physical exercise that a person can
perform before developing anginal pain.
Tissues that need the largest amounts of Coenzyme Q-10 are those that
require the most energy, such as the heart. Our internal ability to produce
Coenzyme Q-10 declines with age, and as we get older we must rely more on Coenzyme Q-10
from our diets.
Coenzyme Q-10 is a nutrient necessary to the functioning of every cell
in our bodies. Our bodies could not survive without it. If body levels
start dropping, so does our general health. Scientists estimate that once
levels drop below the 25% deficient levels, many disease states begin
to flourish including high blood pressure, heart attack, angina, immune
depression, periodontal disease, lack of energy, weight gain and even
early death.
Coenzyme Q-10 is known as Coenzyme Q-10 and also ubiquinone. It is a member
of the quinone cyclic compounds that may be considered a relative of some
potent anticancer drugs. Coenzyme Q-10 can add or remove oxygen from biologically
active molecules. Every cell of the body contains many subcellular components
called mitochondria, which produce 95% of the total energy of the body.
Coenzyme Q-10 is an integral part of the membranes of the mitochondria where
it is involved in the production of ATP, the basic energy producing molecule
of cells.
When immunity is low, so are the reserves of Coenzyme Q-10. When body levels
of Coenzyme Q-10 are raised, so is the immune potential. AIDS victims and other
people with depressed immune systems can receive some help from antibiotic
and antiviral drugs, but they will not rebuild the immune system. Mice
have been shown to have a 50% extended life span by supplementing with
Coenzyme Q-10. Coenzyme Q-10 acts as an antioxidant, protecting cells against
free radical damage and exerting a protective effect on cell membranes.
Coenzyme Q-10 can naturally stimulate the immune system and result in a wide
range of beneficial and protective effects.
Tissues that require the most energy (such as the heart) need the largest
amounts of Coenzyme Q-10. Angina is a condition where inadequate oxygen is available
to the heart muscle itself. People with failing cardiac systems have shown
to greatly benefit with increased strength and vigor when supplemented
with Coenzyme Q-10. People with high blood pressure usually have lower levels
of Coenzyme Q-10.
It has been shown at the University of Texas and the University of Antwerp,
Belgium that obese people can lose weight simply with the addition of
Coenzyme Q-10 to the diet. This research showed that obese people can have as
much as a 50% deficiency of Coenzyme Q-10 in their tissues.
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