It's a vitamin-like chemical found throughout your body, especially heart. It has anti-oxidant qualities and helps to increase energy levels in your body. Some medicines can interefere with Co-Q 10 levels in your body.
Co-Q 10 deficiencies are found in people diagnosed with the following: heart disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer, diabetes, muscular dystrophy and HIV/AIDS.
Co-Q 10 is used in Japan to treat heart disease. The Mayo clinic has indicated that Co-Q 10 can help to reduce high blood pressure. Other researchers have found patients with cancer have a higher survival rate when taking Co-Q 10.
Co-Q 10 can be found naturally occurring in:
Food Item | Coenzyme Q10 (mcg/g) |
Pork heart | 126.8-203 |
Beef heart | 113.3 |
Soybean oil | 92.3 |
Rapeseed oil | 63.5 - 73.4 |
Sardine | 64.3 |
Mackerel | 43.3 |
Pork | 24.3-41.1 |
Beef liver | 39.2 |
Beef | 31.0 - 36.5 |
Sesame oil | 32.0 |
Soybeans, roasted and ground | 30.1 |
Peanuts, roasted | 26.7 |
Cattlefish | 23.8 |
Sesame seeds, roasted | 23.0 |
Pork liver | 22.7 |
Chicken | 14.0 - 21.0 |
Yellow tail fish | 20.7 |
Horse mackerel | 20.7 |
Pistachios, roasted | 20.1 |
Pork ham | 20.0 |
Walnuts, raw | 19.0 |
Soybeans, whole, dry | 19.0 |
Cottonseed oil | 17.3 |
Azuki beans | 17.1 |
Hazelnuts, roasted | 16.7 |
Tuna fish, canned | 15.9 |
Baltic herring | 15.9 |
Pollack, frozen | 14.4 |
Sweet almond, roasted | 13.8 |
Corn oil | 13.0 |
Soybeans, boiled | 12.1 |
Eel, cultured | 11.1 |
Spinach | 10.2 |
Mattila, et al., "Coenzymes Q9 and Q10: contents in foods and dietary intake,"Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 14 (2001) 409-417 |
Note: Please consult your primary care practitioner before starting to take Co-Q 10 enzyme supplements. It may interfere with certain medicines.
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