Co Enzyme Q 10 and your heart

There are places in the world where the big Drug companies do not rule.

There are places where they do not have the most powerful and well-funded lobbies.

There are places where they do not own politicians and news media.

And there are places where all natural substances are put on an even playing field as drugs.

In such places doctors are well versed in the uses of vitamins, supplements, and minerals along side pharmaceuticals.

I hope to make the U.S. one of those places.

So today I cover one small area of the amazing supplement co Q 10.

First a little background.

Co Q 10 is one of the most important substances in the body. It is intimately involved with the generation of energy, using fat as fuel and critically important for all organs.

A few days ago I answered a question about resting metabolism with regards to weight loss.

I stated that the organs most responsible for resting metabolism were the brain, the heart, the kidney and the liver.

If you look at these organs you'll see that their cells are rich in mitochondria, the tiny little powerhouses that make energy for all cells.

So it is not too much of a stretch to see that Co Q, which lives inside the mitochondria, would be very important for their function.

But it's not just limited to there.

Even the eyes seem to benefit from Co Q 10. There are studies that show that Co Q protects from age related macular degeneration, which is why we loaded up our Pro Mac Young Eyes formulated with this critical substance.

But let's focus on just the heart and Co Q 10 or you'll be reading all day long.

When I first created Regenerizer, I made it for my patients who were taking statin drugs and in my opinion ran the risk of getting too low on Co Q.

While traditional medical authorities in this country turn a blind eye to this possibility (sound familiar?) in Canada, the use of Co Q 10 and statins is pretty much a law.

This is because statins are known to interfere with the manufacture of Co Q and this can lead to many problems in the very organ the statins are supposed to protect, the heart.

If you want an all natural compound designed to drop your cholesterol without statin side effects, you owe it to yourself to try Cholesterol Bomb.

Another thing you should know about Co q 10 is that it tends to decline in the mitochondria as we age.

This is one of the reasons thought to lead to the slowing down of older people. It can also be linked to movement disorders such as Parkinson's.

If however the heart gets weaker and slows down, then you have a situation called Congestive Heart Failure.

To be sure there is more heart failure than ever now. Most doctors say it is because of aging, and there is a multi drug cocktail designed to keep the heart pumping longer and stronger.

Multi drugs means multi side effects though as we have seen over and over again.

And I don't suppose they ever considered the decline in co Q as linked to the aging process.

Despite the resistance and a slew of negative articles published in the typical journals (like JAMA) there is more and more evidence to show that Co Q can benefit your heart.

Studies at the University of Texas at Austin showed that 75 percent of heart patients have severe deficiencies of Co Q 10 in heart tissue compared with healthy individuals. These are people who are not necessarily on statins either.

Adding coenzyme Q-10 significantly benefited three-fourths of a group of elderly patients with congestive heart failure.

In general the higher the doses used the better the results.

Common practice was to use 30 mg, the dose that is sold in most vitamin stores.

This of course is way too small to do much. But when you get up above 100mg, you really start to see some positive things in the strength of the heart's contraction, the volume of blood it pumps and even a reduction in heart pain know as angina.

This is why Regenerizer had to have 200mg.

At these doses you can see improvement in heart function and blood flow. The end result is improved performance on the treadmill.

When Co Q is removed from the treatment routine (even if there are prescription drugs on board) the person often relapses with symptoms of their disease.

In Japan and Italy Co Q is a prescription only and is among the top treatments for heart failure in these countries.

Big Pharma has a weaker toe hold there!

Co Q has even been shown to improve the symptoms of mitral valve prolapse, a common heart value condition in this country

Ok so now you know about Co Q and the heart. I haven't even touched on the brain, the kidneys and the liver; we'll save that for another time.

Remember Regenerizer has Co Q 10 in a dose of 200 mg a dose that I have not seen elsewhere in a supplement.

I have seen other doctors claim they have the highest dosage in their supplements at around 100 mg.

Someone should let them know!

But here is the important point.

As I moved away from my Internal Medicine practice and into the Anti-aging field I wanted to create something that would help healthy people achieve their performance goals and perhaps prevent them from ever having to deal with the problems of aging.

I can't make further claims or the FDA and the FTC will come knocking on my door with a pair of handcuffs.

But you can read what my Regenerizer users have said and decided for yourself.

Once you are done you want some for yourself too.

Regenerizer

All the best in health,

Dr Dave

Supplements mentioned in this blog:
Pro Mac Young Eyes
Regenerizer
Cholesterol Bomb