Every cell in your body depends on it for powerful antioxidant defense and energy. Hard-working organs like your heart, kidneys, and lungs depend on it to function properly. Unfortunately, as you age, your levels of it decrease and your body doesn’t get as much as it needs to maintain optimal health and vitality.

I am talking about CoQ10, one of the most powerful anti-aging nutrients your body uses. Supplementing your body’s reserves is critical for your health.

But when it comes to getting the best possible benefits from CoQ10, it’s not how much you take that matters, it’s how much that’s actually absorbed.

Ordinarily CoQ10 comes in the form of ubiquinone. Some doctors know that it has many health benefits. What they don’t always know is that in order for your body to be able to use and absorb the ubiquinone CoQ10, it first has to reduce it to its metabolite form of ubiquinol.

In fact, the best way to consume it is in the ready-to-use ubiquinol form. It used to be difficult to put ubiquinol into supplement form, but that is no longer true.

A trial study showed that people who supplemented with just 150 mg a day of ubiquinol gained 3.84 mcg/mL of CoQ10 in their blood.1 It requires 8 times more of the old ubiquinone CoQ10 to get the same levels.2,3 So, your body gets more of what it needs in smaller doses.

Ubiquinol also remains in the bloodstream far longer than ubiquinone. In fact, it leaves 66% more CoQ10 in your bloodstream after 24 hours.4

What’s also great about this new ubiquinol form is you can take it anytime. All you need is a little water. It is able to bond to water, making it more readily absorbable. In contrast, you have to take the ubiquinone form with food or fat (i.e. fish oil/cod liver oil) for it to breakdown and absorb into your bloodstream.

Here are some important things you want to keep in mind to make sure you get the best source of CoQ10.

• When choosing a supplement, you of course want it to be the newer form of CoQ10 in ubiquinol form. Make sure it’s made from the company Kaneka. They developed it, and they are the only company making it right now. We’ve arranged with Kaneka to private label their ubiquinol formula. To try it, go here now.
• The supplement for the new form of CoQ10 only comes in soft gel form. The older form comes in powder, tablets, even liquid form, and may or may not have “ubiquinone” on the label.
• For the anti-aging benefits, 50 mg of the ubiquinol CoQ10 daily is sufficient, which is what I recommend to my patients. But for therapeutic purposes, I will often prescribe up to 150 mg daily.
• You can also get a little help from your diet. One of the best sources of CoQ10 is red meat, especially organ meat. But you want to choose grass-fed beef because it’s healthier for you — it has more omega-3s, and vitamins A and E than commercial grain fed beef, and doesn’t have hormones or antibiotics.

You also want to make sure that you don’t overcook your grass-fed beef because it destroys the CoQ10. So don’t be afraid to enjoy a juicy steak that’s red in the middle.

To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD

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