I’ve been taking CQ 10 for years. Good for the complexion.
Aside from how good it makes your skin feel, it will build strength in your immune system by increasing the mineral storehouse in your largest organ , your skin.
Precisely, the basis for nerve/network healing.
Cheers!
I have been taking Q10 for years - improves gum health. I had braces on my teeth as an adult and Q10 made marked, and I do mean, marked improvement in my gum health. I read up on it before I began taking it and really, I never found any negatives, only very small studies that seemed to indicate that it could be a great supplement. For example, small studies saying it ‘reversed’ heart failure? Studies saying that women being treated for cancer reported it improved mood. The studies were small so I do not believe that they constitute fact but there were no negatives and one of the consistent claims was that it improved gum health, and ideed it does.
The most shocking improvement for me was that seemed to cure life-long insomnia. It is brand sensitive - I began taking it, and after a few days began to experience deep, refereshing sleep. I did not put the two together until I switched brands and the glorious sleep I had ‘discovered’ went away completely. On a hunch, I went back to the original brand, and returned to sleeping deeply at night. I find that if I don’t take Q10 for the day, I will sleep well that night but not the following night - there seems to be a 3 or 4 day delay in the onset of good sleep and a two day delay in the departure of good sleep once I stop taking it.
I have found more brands of Q10 that DON’T help me sleep than there are brands that DO work for me. I hate buying a bottle and finding the brand doesn’t work for me.
There are many brands that have very similar names so I retrieved my current bottle to read the label. A brand that works for me is TruNature. I suspect my sleep response is something just odd or off about me (difficient) but given that there were several studies on gum health that might interest many people. And those little, intriguing studies on heart failure, etc. I hope those turn out to bear fruit but have to remain skeptical.
coQ10 is pretty unnoticeable unless you have too little, then about everything can go wrong, often starting with the heart.
Importantly, statin drugs, given for high cholesterol, also inhibit the natural production of coQ10. So if you are taking a statin drug, like Lipitor, Vytorin, Crestor and Zocor, it is important that you also take a coQ10 supplement. This is more important the older you are, because natural coQ10 production decreases with age.
http://www.spacedoc.net/statins_CoQ10.htm
I’ve been taking about 50mg a day for several years, just for good measure. I really hope that there will be a lot more research, including informal research, on treatments that people can do themselves. Best way to marginalize and shrink the insane government-medical-legal complex we’re suffering under, where many of the most basic medications can’t be obtained without paying for a doctor visit and a “prescription” (though many doctors will happily write out a script for whatever you ask for, as long as they’re getting their office visit fee). My guess is that this formal study was prompted by strong anecdotal reports of success by people who were experimenting with self-medication with CoQ10.
I would not be surprised. Co-enzyme Q10 is an awesome substance in its own right. Great antioxidant.
I’m gonna buy stock in Co-Q10 companies.
If I can remember to...