Don’t know for sure but heard it’s good in large dosage for Parkinsons.
It’s also a MUST HAVE for anyone taking cholesterol drugs such as Lipitor.
All statins suck it right out of your body and low CoQ10 levels can lead to heart attacks, strokes and other fun cardiac events.
In fact, Lipitor [after a lawsuit] starting adding a piddling amount of CoQ10 to to its pills.
Results of the first placebo-controlled, multicenter clinical trial of the compound coenzyme Q10 suggest that it can slow disease progression in patients with early-stage Parkinson's disease (PD). While the results must be confirmed in a larger study, they provide hope that this compound may ultimately provide a new way of treating PD.
The phase II study, led by Clifford Shults, M.D., of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, looked at a total of 80 PD patients at 10 centers across the country to determine if coenzyme Q10 is safe and if it can slow the rate of functional decline. The study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and appears in the October 15, 2002, issue of the Archives of Neurology . 1
“This trial suggested that coenzyme Q10 can slow the rate of deterioration in Parkinson's disease,” says Dr. Shults. “However, before the compound is used widely, the results need to be confirmed in a larger group of patients.”