Co-Q 10 Enzyme

What is Co-Q 10? What can it do for me?

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.