| CoQ10 is one of the most popular and fastest | | | | European research has clearly demonstrated a |
| growing supplements in the US. With more than | | | | correlation between levels of the coemzyme and |
| 8,000 people in the US turning 60 every day, the | | | | heart health. It is used with successful results as |
| growing list of ways that CoQ10 benefits | | | | an adjutant therapy for patients with heart |
| Babyboomers is getting a lot of attention. | | | | disease, as well as for those who have suffered |
| More than $413 million was spent on CoQ10 | | | | heart failure or who are recovering from heart |
| supplements in 2007, and the rate of consumption | | | | surgery. |
| of the coenzyme is rising every year. | | | | Seen as a possible factor in other age-related |
| A vitamin-like substance essential to the | | | | disorders |
| production of energy at a cellular level, CoQ10 is | | | | Studies have proven that CoQ10 is an important |
| present in every cell in the body. However the | | | | factor in maintaining and protecting brain health |
| older we get the less we produce, and medical | | | | and cognitive abilities, especially as related to aging. |
| research has shown that there is a direct | | | | It is also being tested for effectiveness in |
| correlation between levels of this important | | | | preventing or treating a host of other age-related |
| substance and many of the problems associated | | | | problems, including prostate and other forms of |
| with aging, including heart failure, high blood | | | | cancer, adult-onset diabetes, and vision problems |
| pressure, cardiovascular disease, and more. | | | | like macular degeneration. It is even known to |
| Antioxidant power for halting and even reversing | | | | work against skin aging, and in fact in Europe the |
| aging process | | | | primary CoQ10 benefit is seen as an anti-aging |
| One of the foremost of CoQ10 benefits is that | | | | skin treatment. |
| it's a powerful antioxidant. As such it actually | | | | Alzheimer's treatment a possibility? |
| repairs and reverses the cellular damage done by | | | | Alzheimer's disease, the number seven cause of |
| destructive compounds called free radicals, which | | | | death in the US, may actually be treatable with |
| interfere with healthy cellular metabolism. | | | | CoQ10. Further research is needed, but a 2006 |
| Cellular damage by free radicals plays a major role | | | | study by Johns Hopkins University demonstrated |
| in the aging process. Studies have shown that | | | | a clear relationship between supplementation of |
| oxidation damage accumulates throughout life. | | | | the coenzyme and improvement in the kind of |
| Some of the newest, most exciting research on | | | | cognitive impairments Alzheimer's creates. |
| aging indicates that many of the general health | | | | The study used groups of animals with |
| and fitness declines associated with aging show a | | | | Alzheimer's-like brain damage. The group that got |
| positive response to antioxidants. | | | | daily supplements showed no signs of neurological |
| CoQ10 benefits include protecting heart health, | | | | dusfunction and remained cognitively as |
| cardiovascular function | | | | competent as animals with no brain damage, while |
| The risk of heart disease, the world's number one | | | | the group that received no supplementation |
| killer, is known to increase with age. Both US and | | | | showed rapid and increasing cognitive impairment. |