Healthy Heart – Coenzyme Q10, Antioxidants and Nutrition Important To Heart
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What is Coenzyme Q10 or CoQ10 is a nutrient made by the body and includes fat-soluble vitamins, although more in terms of functions similar to an enzyme (catalytic metabolism).
Since there are in the cell body, CoQ10 also called ubiquinone, comes from “ubiquitos” the word meaning everywhere.
Source
CoQ10 found in cold ocean that contains EPA (a form of essential fatty acids omega-3 found in many cold sea fish such as tuna, salmon or cod. Also on the entrails / guts of mammals. While plants only slightly, namely the natural cereals (wholegrains) and nuts.
Function
As auxiliary enzyme (coenzyme), CoQ10 helps metabolic reactions, such as the complex process of changing nutrients into energy needed for various functions in the body, including digesting food, maintaining healthy muscles, heal wounds and so on.
His role in the formation of energy could explain why CoQ10 is in every body cell. Greatest needs are certain cells that function in the heart makes the heart can beat more than 100,000 times per day.
CoQ10 also act as antioxidants, like vitamins C and E, which helps prevent the destruction of the cell by molecules called free radicals.
Use
CoQ10 can be used to overcome / prevent gingivitis, cancer, heart attacks and other diseases related to the destruction caused by free radicals. These supplement is also often used as an energy enhancer and anti-aging, including inhibiting the development of Alzheimer and Parkinson Disease.
Research
Several studies have shown levels of CoQ10 a significant low in heart tissue of patients with congenital heart disease and other heart disease than in those with healthy. Supplementation CoQ10. of 100 mg / day is enough to show enough improvement in the condition means such patients.
While the research for cancer published since 1994 until 2001, recorded the existence of regression the complete tumor in some cases of breast cancer and the liver cancer after therapy with CoQ10. Last reported minimum effective dose for patients with breast cancer is about 90 mg – 390 mg / day (dose for each person associated with the adequacy levels CoQ10 in the blood).
Dosage
No reference standard dose for CoQ10. Because the human body is considered capable of synthesize by himself. However, the general recommended dosage is 30 to 90 mg, for 2 – 3 times / day. For disorders of the heart / circulation of Alzheimer’s disease and specific diseases can be increased to 400 mg / day (note: still under the supervision of experts should be). Benefits can be seen after the use of eight weeks or more
Effects of Excess / Shortage
CoQ10 deficiency can occur with age or due to metabolic disfunction due to nutritional deficiencies or certain diseases (diseases related to metabolic disturbances and malnutrition will cause nutrients the body needs increasing). Therefore, some doctors recommend that a supplement CoQ10 have started to eat since the age of 40.
Signs of CoQ10 deficiency are often tired without cause or muscle pain, cardiomyopathy (heart muscle weakness) and pectori angina (chest pain due to heart disease). Clinical studies on the elderly and patients with heart failure, gingivitis (gum inflammation), hypertension, distrophy (tissue disorders due to malnutrition) muscle, AIDS, and kidney failure was also significantly show CoQ10 deficiency conditions. Cholesterol-lowering drugs (lovastatin and pravastatin), heart disease (propranolol and metaprolol) and anti-depression (phenothiazines and try-cyclic) can also affect the status of coq 10 synthesis by inhibiting CoQ10.
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