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The One Supplement I Never Miss Taking
As a writer and editor in the health field for many years, I’m often asked for advice from people who want to start a supplement program. Without question, the one supplement that’s absolutely at the top of my list is CoQ10. I take 200 mg every morning and know it’s working to produce energy in every cell in my body, especially my heart.
Here’s what I mean…
Before I began taking CoQ10, I’d usually fall into a 2 o’clock slump at work. No matter how much sleep I got the night before, my brain felt foggy and I barely had enough energy to get through the rest of the day. I looked forward to weekends, simply to get more sleep. I felt like I was on my way to old age.
That was before. But this is now…
I get 7 hours of sleep every night and have more than enough energy to work all day, make a 50-minute commute home, do some stretching exercises, cook dinner, and spend quality time with my husband.
On weekends, I clean the house, run errands, make phone calls, and look forward to our Saturday "date night." Extra sleep is the last thing on my mind. Who’s old? Not me!
If that’s not enough, here are the other life-saving benefits you get from CoQ10:
- It’s an essential co-factor your body needs to derive energy. You can’t survive without it.
- It’s the very best "medicine" you can take for congestive heart failure according to Dr. Al Sears. It also regulates your heart rhythm, clears your arteries, lowers your blood pressure, and reduces high cholesterol
- It’s a powerful antioxidant that protects your immune cells from free radical damage and even boosts their cancer fighting ability.
- It generates energy in the brain and may protect against neurological diseases and even memory loss.
- Applied topically or taken orally, it helps prevent gum disease and tooth loss.
While people in their 20s almost always have enough of this essential nutrient, deficiencies are common in people over 40. And that’s one of the reasons we start feeling "old" and getting sick.
Here’s a great story from Dr. Sears on the "miracle" CoQ10 performed on one of his patients.
A retired chorus line dancer came to his clinic for the first time with high blood pressure — even though she was taking two blood pressure medications and a statin drug. She felt constant fatigue and had increased trouble with her memory. When Dr. Sears measured her CoQ10 levels, he found it was 95% lower than most of the population. After taking 200 mg of a CoQ10 supplement daily for two months, she was able to stop both blood pressure medications.
Remarkably, she now maintains a normal blood pressure without medications. She also says she feels "energized for the first time in decades" and reports a sharper memory.
Did you notice that the woman was taking a cholesterol-lowering statin drug? It’s part of the reason she was so dangerously depleted of CoQ10. Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs rob you of it. And most doctors don’t know, or don’t bother telling their patients when they prescribe a statin. Dr. Sears advises people who take statin drugs to supplement with at least 100 mg per day of CoQ10.
Organ meats are the primary food sources of CoQ10. And organ meats from grass-fed beef or wild game are the highest. They contain ten times more CoQ10 than grain-fed animals. But how many people eat these foods? If you’re like nearly 100% of the population, you’re not getting enough CoQ10 from your diet. That’s why a supplement is so important.
I hope I’ve convinced you about the power of CoQ10. Whether you take statin drugs or not, make CoQ10 a part of your daily nutrition program. It really is the "miracle" nutrient.
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Great suppliment. Really helps. Will share article with a few people today.
I just recently purchased CoQ10 (Ubiquinol) from Dr. Mercola’s website. The directions say to take 1 pill per day with food / water. Each pill is 100mg. Your article suggests 200mg. Should I be doubling up?
I’m Male, age 36, and let’s just say…a BIG boy. Would I best be served by 200mg per day?
Thanks,
Ed
How I like to purchase CoQ10 but not by mail. I try find if there is available in the pharmacies here. How I thank you with your articles on health. I am getting informed and learn lots on health issues.
I needed a valid reason for using Coq10. Now I understand.
Kelp is essential for anyone. My friend’s mother shakes.
Even the head. Bipolar,diabetes and high blood pressure and
cholesterol are factors in their health. How can I make her
understand that it is better than doctor’s pills? Maybe the
books on the subject can help too. Cheryl is almost 300 lbs.
Her mother is almost 200. Exercise won’t do much for health
when the meds are hindering.
Here is one important piece of advice. For every flu shot,
take one Astragulus to counteract the effects that will
cause a cold. Echinacea will work too. Any more than that
results in toxic poison or it won’t work.
Pau D’ Arco in capsules or tea is a miracle south american
plant that will save lives. Pass it on. Children take one
capsule and Adults take two capsules and stop to let it
work with the body. Help me to save more lives.
Isolating coQ10 like this for its own special treatment is very helpful
Also, alternating short easy-to-assimilate articles with a comprehensive one like Pace makes it easier to live with Pace for days as we mull over it whenever it pops up as we move around all day
Then Pace can become as much a part of our thinking as remembering to drink water before running too dry.
The current run of articles and comments on Pace is tops in my book. It is obvious that we all come from different places. Sometimes our comments do not address the specifics of another reader’s problem.
For example, when excruciating pain is felt with every movement, I would wonder about a nutritional deficit like I had when I reached my ground zero not so very long ago.
Pace would not recommend sprints and lunges to someone who can barely turn over in bed–much less get out of it without help. That was what happened to me.
Also, maybe not everyone will agree, but for me there can never be too much on THB about issues related to movement. Even repetition within a different context has merit ongoing.
Repetition cannot be avoided in writing which constantly addresses many readers.
Pace has a long way to go before many of us become too sophisticated to hear more about it.
I love it!
(I am the near 84-year old who feels great after ground zero. Though I said that my pain is all gone, that does not mean that my muscles are strong enough for me to walk fast and have a good gait yet. It also does not mean that I don’t ache and feel stiff upon arising from bed after a good night’s sleep or getting out of the car after a long confining drive.)
Holy Hannah! This was like reading an article somebody wrote about ME! I am 65 and am fortunate that I take no medications but my energy has been waning and it is exactly as you mentioned…around 2-3pm I start fading and it is a real effort to finish the afternoon, prepare a meal for my family and pass out in bed. I get MORE than enough sleep…I go to bed around 9pm and get up at 7 or 8am so 10 hours or more and still I have very limited energy. I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I have heard about CoQ10 for some time but never really checked on it’s benefits. They say the teacher comes when the student is ready…and boy am I ready. I am getting on board with this supplement and I thank you for your laying the facts out!! I am excited about what my results may be! Thank you - Trisha
I have read as you get older that your levels of COQ10 begin to fall dramatically. I also read that it is difficult to “absorb” COQ10 when you are older. Does anyone know if there is a form of COQ10 that is more readily absorbable than another, or if there is a supplement I might use in conjunction with COQ10 that might aide in better absorption of the COQ10? I am 67 years old.
@ Roger
Your question about more absorbable CoQ10…
Yes, Ubiquinol CoQ10 is specifically for those over age 40, since absorption becomes more difficult at that age and beyond. I’m 36 and began with Ubiquinol anyway.
I’m sure you can find it in plenty of places, but I got mine from mercola.com.
Ed
You can get Ubiqunol at Swanson vitamins.com at a very reasonable price.
I think this article was great and very informative.
How about a list of “STATINS” I am 78 . Ido not take any medicines except “Xalatin”. Thank You.
Thank You for an easy to understand, clear message. For some reason COQ10 has been a confusing subject until now. Thanks Again.