Question: from Addie
Hi Warren, what is your opinion on Coq10? What's the best one to buy?
Answer: from Warren
CoQ10 is an essential nutrient and very important for heart health.
It is manufactured by the liver and only a very small amount comes from dietary sources. However, a good diet can help provide the raw ingredients to enable your liver to produce an ample supply.
But, if you are on a statin drug then you must supplement with CoQ10 because the pathway that a statin drug blocks in order to prevent your liver from making so much cholesterol is the same as that used to produce CoQ10.
So, if you use a statin drug your body will produce less than it is using each day and a deficiency will be the result as your body’s reserves of CoQ10 are used up. And that is more serious than elevated cholesterol itself.
If you are not on a statin you still need to be conscious of the need for CoQ10 as the body becomes less efficient at producing it as it ages. Therefore you must ensure that you do have adequate amounts.
There are two ways to do this.
One is to make an effort in ensuring that your body has an adequate supply of the raw nutrients so the liver can manufacture CoQ10 effectively. This should always be done irrespective whether you adopt the second way or not.
These raw nutrients are part of a complex bio-chemical process. Prof. Dr Munem Daoud who has been our chief researcher for the last 10 years is aware of these processes and as a result we have ensured that all versions of Total Balance over the last 10 years contained these essential raw nutrients.
The second way of course is direct supplementation with CoQ10. CoQ10 is very sensitive and to be effective should be bound with specific form of vitamins and other nutrients. We do this when we use CoQ10 in both Total Balance and Cardio-Klenz.
If supplementing it is also important that you only use the type which is produced using fermentation. This is bio-technology process.
If I was buying a CoQ10 supplement on its own I would be inclined to find a sublingual form of fermented CoQ10 for maximum bio-availability. The CoQ10 in our supplements is very absorbable as it is protected on its way to the upper intestine by enteric coating.