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kebaldwin
Tue, Mar-13-07, 16:52
Note this is a sales ad ... but I thought that it also contained a lot of good information about CoQ10 ... so I tried to strip out the hype and leave the educational info.

New Research on "Cell Energy Factor" Finds 82% Chance You Don't Have Enough of It.

Your body needs a powerful "energy factor" that 82% of my patients are lacking. And most doctors completely ignore it.

It super-charges every cell in your body giving you higher energy levels. But modern food production has all but wiped it out of your food and your levels fall with age.

Get it back and you could bypass much of the degeneration we accept as aging. But there my own research found a high probability that you're NOT getting enough.

And that's bad news... When your body is missing this vital nutrient, you starve your brain and heart and health risks go through the roof. And when your cells, tissues and organs starve for energy, you speed up your aging process and get old before your time.

But you don't have to wait as this happens to you.

Put this "energy factor" back in your body and you could:

Prevent the risks associated with an aging heart and brain
Keep your memory sharp and wipe out "brain fog"
Maintain healthy blood pressures without toxic prescription drugs
Have extra energy to burn, boosting your endurance and stamina
Bulletproof your immune system and eliminate "sick days"
Extend your "healthspan" by a decade, without falling prey to the losses of aging
And that's just the beginning. Here's how it works...

Power Up Every Cell in Your Body and Keep Your Mind Firing on All Cylinders

Fact is, your body requires a neglected "energy factor" that most of us are lacking. You may have heard of it recently called ubiquinone or Coenzyme Q10.

CoQ10 has gotten press as a powerful antioxidant. Now we're learning that it does much more than that. Few know it, but researchers have clinically proven its power to revive and regenerate the cells and vital organs in your body by giving them added energy.

But the lack of CoQ10 in our altered, modern diet means most people have very low levels. What's worse, levels of CoQ10 dramatically drop as you get older.Your heart needs more CoQ10 than any other organ. But levels are rapidly falling in your heart's cells. Just look at how it starts to decline in your 20s and by the time you're 40 your heart's lost nearly half of its CoQ10!

Source: Littarru GP. Energy and Defense, Rome 1995

Researchers reporting in Clinical Cardiology found that 62% of all heart failure patients have low CoQ10 levels. This deficiency is even worse in my own practice. The patients who come to me with the lowest levels of CoQ10 are the ones most likely to have serious heart problems.

But that's not all... Low CoQ10 levels also increase your risk of high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, senility, gum disease, heart attacks - even cancer.

CoQ10 is Your Body's "Powerfuel" - It Gives Every Cell, Tissue and Organ the Energy Needed for High Performance!

CoQ10 is a completely unique molecule in biology. It serves as a specialized "co-factor" your body uses to provide higher energy levels in your cells. CoQ10 provides the spark that helps burn oxygen and other nutrients for energy faster with higher energy output. Without CoQ10, the "the spark dims" and organs like your heart and brain starve for energy.

In my own practice, I've seen the direct and dramatic effect of CoQ10 on heart health - even in the face of the most serious heart conditions. CoQ10 is rapidly becoming renowned for its heart protection, but it works many wonders for your brain as well.

Brain levels of CoQ10 start to decline in your 20s and are lowest in stroke victims and those with neurodegenerative diseases. CoQ10 protects your nerves and helps stave off the very difficult problem of loss of memory with age.

In addition to supplying energy, CoQ10 is a powerful antioxidant. The oxidation we use for fuel tends to damage tissues, similar to the way fire oxidizes or "burns" everything it touches. The powerful antioxidant action of CoQ10 quenches this fire in neighboring tissues and protects them from damage.

In Nature's usual wisdom, she has assigned this dual role to CoQ10. The same molecule we use to derive high energy fuel from food protects us from any damage from burning that fuel.

So why are we all so suddenly deficient in CoQ10? Like so many of our modern health problems, we can trace the source back to unnatural changes we have made in our diet.

What was your best source of this high energy, anti-aging miracle nutrient? (You should see the look of surprise I get from my patients when I tell them this...) By far the best source in our diet for eons has been the much-maligned red meat of animals. Not anymore...

Back in the days before industrialized farming started feeding livestock a diet of grains and toxic drugs, all red meat was "grass fed." This provided your ancestors with a robust source of the energy-producing CoQ10 they needed.

But domesticated livestock has only 1/10 the CoQ10 of wild animals. And the industrial, processed, corn and soy-fed, beef you eat today is not only diseased, it's missing the CoQ10 you need for energy!

It's no surprise that rates of heart and brain problems have skyrocketed in the last 50 years. The same time we stopped getting CoQ10 from wild game and grass-fed livestock...

But getting back your CoQ10 has not been easy. Remember that it concentrates in your energy-guzzling organs like your brain, heart, kidneys and liver? Well it does the same thing in animals - it concentrates in their internal organs.

We used to all eat organ meat loaded with energy producing CoQ10. Now in a single generation we all stopped - And for good reason. The stuff is diseased and loaded with herbicides, pesticides, antibiotics, hormones and who knows what other toxins.

So what are we to do? Move back into the woods and hunt wild game?

And supplementing with Coenzyme Q10 has been problematic too. Most forms are worthless. Most of it is just wasted because it never gets into your blood or tissues.

But after years of searching and testing in my own patients, I am finally ready to share some great news.

You can now establish a reliable source of the world's most potent form of CoQ10. It's simply more effective than 90% of the CoQ10 supplements on the market!

What the Drug Companies Won't Tell You about CoQ10

Statin cholesterol-lowering medications not only block the production of cholesterol. They also block the production of CoQ10! Ironic, isn't it? The "wonder heart drug" actually increases your deficiency of this heart energy factor!

Drug giant Merck - maker of the statin drug Zocor - has known about this vital connection for years.

In Fact, Merck filed a patent that combines CoQ10 with statin drugs. Here's an excerpt: "Since CoQ10... is of benefit in congestive heart failure patients, the combination with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statin drugs) should be of value in such patients who also have the added risk of high cholesterol."

But Merck has never exercised their patent to use CoQ10 with statin drugs. What's worse, they've remained silent - never sharing this vital information with doctors or the public.

After all, why tell people about CoQ10 when you can't corner the market? (Remember: CoQ10 is a natural nutrient. You can't patent protect things you find in Nature.)

My colleague in the fight for better health through nutrition, Dr. Julian Whitaker, had this to say: "Statin drugs have proven in clinical trials to deplete CoQ10. Patients who take statin drugs without CoQ10, particularly those with a history of heart disease, are especially prone to developing complications that can have fatal consequences."

Don't wait for the drug companies to warn you. They won't. If you're taking statin drugs, you need to block and reverse this damage by taking extra CoQ10!

The Higher Your CoQ10 Levels, the Longer You Live!

CoQ10 turbo-charges your immune system and may even extend your life. In one study, doctors increased the lifespan of female mice by 56%. (That's like adding 40 years to your life!)

In another study, Dr. Steve Harris from the UCLA Medical Center not only raised the average lifespan of mice using CoQ10, but also made them look and act younger. It enabled the mice to reach old age while keeping the signs of youth and vitality.

At the end of the study, the mice taking CoQ10 looked better, were more active and had more interaction with other mice. They also had less grey hair and no signs of arthritis.

CoQ10 also powers up your immune system preventing it from slowing with age or chronic disease. In one study, chronically ill people who took daily CoQ10 for three months had a dramatic increase in their blood levels of immunoglobulin G (IgG) - a key marker of immune system strength.

The researchers concluded that CoQ10 may prevent the suppression of your immune system associated with chronic illness.

CoQ10 Rejuvenates Aging Hearts And Maintains Normal Blood Pressure

The benefits of increasing your levels of CoQ10 are backed up by decades of research from over 200 scientists in 18 countries. In fact, a prominent CoQ10 researcher - Dr. Peter Mitchell - was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1978 for defining the way CoQ10 creates and transfers energy to your cells.

Even the conservative National Institutes of Health has published dozens of remarkable CoQ10 studies over the last decade and supports the findings from doctors around the world.

Help Maintain Healthy Blood Pressure: A 2001 study published in Pharmacotherapy reported more than half of all patients given CoQ10 were able to stop from one to three of their blood pressure medications. (The same holds true in my own practice!)

In another study, CoQ10 lowered the average systolic blood pressure (top number) from 159 to 147 mm/Hg - and lowered the average diastolic blood pressure (bottom number) from 94 to 85 mm/Hg.

Help for a Failing Heart: An Italian study from 1993 involved 2,664 patients with heart failure. After just three months, patients showed a dramatic improvement. Their symptoms dropped across the board:
CoQ10 Reduces the Symptoms of Heart Failure

% of Decrease
Symptom

79
Edema (fluid retention)

78
Pulmonary (lung) edema

49
Liver enlargement

72
Venous congestion

53
Shortness of breath

75
Heart palpitations


Helps Neutralize Free Radicals in Cells: Free radical damage causes a range of diseases and medical problems, including heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, arthritis, and other age-related problems. CoQ10 appears to protect the cells by cleaning up these free radicals before they can cause damage.
Prevents Migraines: A Swiss study on migraine patients reveals that CoQ10 cuts migraine frequency and duration in half.
For the first time, you can get my PRIMAL FORCE CoQ10 with it's better absorption and higher blood levels - and a whole package of FREE bonuses.

But first, I want to share how this energy factor works in your cells...

Your Cells are the "Construction Workers" that Keep You Alive -
But if They Don't get Enough to Eat, they Starve...
You have over 100 trillion cells in your body. And each one of them relies on a fresh and renewable supply of energy to carry out the countless jobs they perform everyday.

Think of it this way: Each organ and system in your body is like a house. That "house" is sensitive and complex. And it requires constant maintenance and rebuilding.

All the cells that make up each organ are like builders, construction workers and maintenance people. Each "crew" needs to eat three square meals a day - with plenty of liquids - to keep up their strength and stamina. After all, they work 24/7 without ever taking a break!

CoQ10 is the "food" these workers need to stay alive and productive. When you're young, and CoQ10 is available, these workers eat well and stay very active. But when CoQ10 levels drop off, so does their food supply.

As you get older, the "food rations" being delivered to each "crew" drop off. Now imagine a group of workers laboring in the hot sun with only a slice of bread and a cup of water to sustain themselves...

It's not hard to realize that under these harsh conditions, they'll soon die off. And once they die off, the "house" they're working on starts to fall apart.

This is exactly what happens in your own body. When the cells in your heart start to die, your heart dies along with it. When more than one of these "construction crews" starts to falter. You have a simultaneous "systems failure" throughout many parts of your body.

When your brain fails, your memory fades and your risk of neurological problems skyrockets... When your heart fails, it can't pump blood and oxygen to the rest of your body... When your pancreas fails, it can't deliver insulin to your blood stream... When you immune system fails, it can't seek out and attack invaders like viruses or tumor cells...

And the one thing they ALL rely on is high energy output from adequate CoQ10!
CoQ10 is the single most important nutrient you can give you body. Your very life depends on it!

To get that kind of protection, you need high-quality CoQ10 that's easy to absorb. But reliable CoQ10 is hard to find...

You can be certain PRIMAL FORCE CoQ10 has the highest potency of any CoQ10 available. In fact, it's 3 TIMES more absorbable than "ordinary" CoQ10.

Here's why...

Warning: Most CoQ10 Supplements are a Waste of Your Money!
CoQ10 is so important; CoQ10 pills have sprung up everywhere. You might think the cheapest one is the best bargain. But in reality, they're virtually worthless.

For starters, the cheap stuff is synthetic. It's not real CoQ10. It's manufactured to look like CoQ10, but your body sees it as a "foreign substance" and will pass it the next time you go to the bathroom.

And then there's the "powder problem"...

Most of the CoQ10 made today is in a powdered form before they put it into that pill or capsule. (PRIMAL FORCE CoQ10 is a patented liquid gel.)

The majority of this CoQ10 is NEVER absorbed by your body. Check out this graph:


Adapted from a 2004 study by Soft Gel Technologies, Inc.

My PRIMAL FORCE CoQ10 is PROVEN 3 TIMES MORE ABSORBABLE than the typical powder form. And that means 3 times more in your blood and tissues!

For CoQ10 to be effective, it has to get into your blood and stay there. Only by raising your blood levels - and keeping them high - does CoQ10 have a chance to work its way into your organs where it performs its miracles.

If the CoQ10 you're using is never absorbed, it's a complete waste!

What's worse, you'll THINK that it's doing something for you... When in fact, your body is still crying out for the CoQ10 it craves!

The Japanese process for making CoQ10 is the only proven and reliable way to create the CoQ10 your body can actually use. They have patented a process that makes "bio-identical" CoQ10. This is exactly the same as the CoQ10 your body makes.

Only by using CoQ10 produced by this process and getting it past your gut barrier with a hyper-soluble liquid gel cap - can you dramatically raise your blood levels of CoQ10.

By special arrangement, you now have a reliable source of the world's most potent and most bio-available CoQ10. Straight from Japan.
And to help you get the most out of it, you'll also get a FREE bonus package and special discounts...


Ramp Up Your CoQ10 Levels Even Higher with a Little-Known "CoQ10 Booster"

To kick-start your own "CoQ10 miracle," I'm throwing in a FREE GIFT guaranteed to elevate your CoQ10 levels to what I call the "therapeutic level." When you sustain CoQ10 at this level, amazing things start to happen:

Signs of heart trouble disappear... Energy levels rise... And your aging future changes. When CoQ10's healing power kicks in, you're no longer at the mercy of fatigue and weakness.

But to hit that level, you need to take it with the right kind of healthy fat. Here's why:

The potent CoQ10 you'll find in every bottle of PRIMAL FORCE CoQ10 is fat-soluble. That means it needs fat in order to fully dissolve in your gut and enter your bloodstream.

The heart-healthy omega-3 fats in cod liver oil will help your body fully absorb the CoQ10 and raise your blood levels to the therapeutic level.
Dr. Sears' Brand Cod Liver Oil not only ramps up your CoQ10 power, it works together with CoQ10 to provide a double-barreled boost for your heart and brain.

Just one teaspoon will help your CoQ10 to:

Maintain healthy blood pressure
Relieve the symptoms of depression
Improve triglycerides and HDL (good cholesterol)
Boost your memory and brain power
Lower your risk of macular degeneration
Protect your blood vessels and nerves
Calm irregular heart rhythms, which can lead to sudden cardiac death
Did Your Doctor Ever Say, "You DON'T Need Supplements!"
CoQ10 is the strongest reason to take any supplement that I am aware of. How else can you replace that critical "power factor" that keeps every cell in your body alive and kicking? How else can you guarantee that your heart and brain will fire on all cylinders for the rest of your life?

Time machines don't exist. We can't go back to our hunter-gatherer days when our native diet had all the CoQ10 that we needed to sustain good health and long life. Without supplements, what alternative do we have?

I don't know about you, but I'm probably not going to leave the comforts of my modern home to live in the woods and eat the organs of wild animals any time soon.

Fortunately, There Is an Easier Way...
Here at my clinic in South Florida, I've given hundreds of patients CoQ10 for symptoms across the board. From signs of heart failure to gum disease, from high blood pressure to chronic fatigue - even migraine headaches. The results have been nothing short of miraculous.

Every time I saw life-changing turnarounds, one thing was clear: They had sustained high levels of CoQ10 in their blood.

Here's how it worked: During a patient's first visit, I measure their CoQ10 levels to establish a baseline. In fact, when I first started testing for CoQ10 back in the 1990s, my patient's results were so low; But results have been rapidly getting worse. After several years of recent data, I found that 82% of my patients had low levels.

But after trying different forms of CoQ10, I was disappointed by the results. Very often, the CoQ10 was not being absorbed. Other times, blood levels would spike, but then suddenly drop off.

With unreliable CoQ10, the healing process never began.

Finally I was able to secure a reliable supply of the high-potency, super-absorbable CoQ10 I'm offering you today. And that made all the difference.

By raising your blood levels of CoQ10 to the therapeutic level - and keeping them there over time - you trigger a series of changes in your body that ramp up energy on a cellular level.

Suddenly, your heart and mind act as if they were 20 to 30 years younger. By giving your organs the same level of energy they enjoyed years ago, you can actually keep them going for longer than you ever imagined.

When a person's heart or brain give out, it's NOT because of "old age." It's because those organs simply ran out of energy and fell apart.

Source
http://www.alsearsmd.net/oempro/link.php?URL=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWNzc2wuY29tL2FwcC9hZHRyYWNrLmFzcD9NZXJjaGFudElEPTk1ODc0JmFtcDtBZElEPTI5OTU1NQ%3D%3D&Name=&EncryptedMemberID=NDk5NA%3D%3D&CampaignID=179&CampaignStatisticsID=156&Demo=0&Email=keith~baldwinnc.com

kebaldwin
Tue, Mar-13-07, 16:56
more coq10 info

http://www.vitacost.com/articleResults.aspx?Ntk=articles&ss=1&Ntt=coq10

http://www.worldhealth.net/p/aadr-coenzyme-q-.html

http://search.lef.org/search/default.aspx?s=1&QUERY=coq10

http://www.jonbarron.org/search/search_results.php?cx=011341685810792984448%3Acxqelzl-muq&q=coq10&cof=FORID%3A11#831

http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl?index=301821&calln=2&lastq=&sortsel=rel&psel=ealert&opt=ANY&query=coq10

dina1957
Tue, Mar-13-07, 17:25
Help Maintain Healthy Blood Pressure: A 2001 study published in Pharmacotherapy reported more than half of all patients given CoQ10 were able to stop from one to three of their blood pressure medications. (The same holds true in my own practice!)

In another study, CoQ10 lowered the average systolic blood pressure (top number) from 159 to 147 mm/Hg - and lowered the average diastolic blood pressure (bottom number) from 94 to 85 mm/Hg.


I am greately disspointed in CQ10. DH has been taking 200 mg daily from a reputable source for almost 2 years (along with other supplements), with no help for his BP whatsoever. We also eat only grassfed beef as well as liver once a week.Consider that CQ10 is the most expensive supplement, it explains it all. I also recall someone posted that CQ10 did not help a bit with statin related muscle damage.
But YMMV, it may help some folks.
JMO

articshark
Tue, Mar-13-07, 17:42
What are food sources for CoQ10?

Dodger
Tue, Mar-13-07, 21:29
The best food sources are organ meats, beef, sardines, mackerel, spinach, broccoli, and nuts.