| A Healthy body requires a diet containing all the | | | | substance is available in inexpensive pure form |
| raw materials necessary for renewing it's cells. | | | | that has both stimulated medical research and |
| Tomorrow you will have 50 million different skin | | | | made it possible for everyone to take the |
| cells and in a week your whole intestinal mucous | | | | substance as a dietary supplement. However, we |
| membrane will have been replaced. | | | | should not just grab the first Q10 product we see |
| Unlike a car, the body renews itself every minute | | | | because there are difference in the bioavailability |
| and needs the right fuel to do so. It is now | | | | of different products. For example one needs to |
| acknowledged that many diseases are connected | | | | take much larger doses of Q10 in a granulated |
| to diet and lifestyle and so people are taking an | | | | form than if it is available dissolved in oil in a soft |
| increased interest in nutritional research.o If not | | | | capsule. Tablets have no positive effect. |
| exercised muscle is replaced by fat, physical | | | | Danish pharmacist Malene Weis at the Danish |
| inactivity results in our bones losing both strength | | | | College of Pharmacy and other pharmacists from |
| and calcium.o Mental activity slows down if | | | | the state University in Copenhagen tested 4 |
| intellectual faculties are not maintainedo The aging | | | | different types of Q10 on a number of |
| process is under way. | | | | volunteers. The researchers measured the |
| Today we know that diet and exercise, stress | | | | amount of Q10 in the bloodstream over a period |
| and smoking are factors that greatly influence our | | | | of 96 hours after the volunteers had been given |
| health. To withstand premature wear and tear | | | | a single dose of 100mg. The one which was |
| and fight illness it is important that the body | | | | shown to be absorbed best by the body was one |
| receives the necessary vitamins and minerals, | | | | in which Q10 was dissolved in Soya oil contained in |
| trace elements, enzymes and essential fatty and | | | | a soft gel capsule. Thus it was this Q10 which |
| amino acids. If we can't get them all in our food | | | | was statistically shown to have better |
| then we should be taking supplements | | | | bioavailability. The three others used had :o Q10 |
| Biochemists have shown in recent years that | | | | dissolved in Soya bean oilo lecithin or polysorbate |
| prescription medicines help as far as symptoms | | | | 80o Q10 powder in a hard gelatine tablet |
| of illness are concerned but at the same time | | | | Toxic symptoms or side effects have never |
| increase the tendency for rancidity in the body. | | | | been observed even after long term intakes at |
| Perhaps this explains why enormous investments | | | | high doses. |
| in treating illness have neither resulted in a | | | | One interesting study shows the levels of Q10 in |
| significant increase in life expectancy nor in | | | | the bloodstream of people given Q10 as a dietary |
| improving the quality of life. However, more and | | | | supplement for a twelve month period. Four |
| more investigative science points to the role of | | | | products were used and 21 people recruited. The |
| diet in the treatment of a whole host of illnesses. | | | | absorption rates varied widely between the |
| As far back as 1978, England's Peter Mitchell won | | | | products but in all cases the Q10 disappeared |
| the Nobel Prize for Chemistry as a result of his | | | | quickly from the body after the study. Food |
| work into the significance of co-enzyme Q10 for | | | | supplements need to be taken on a continuous |
| energy production in the cellular system. Now the | | | | basis. |