List of Medications that Deplete CoQ10
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Clinical Fact #1: Cholesterol lowering drugs such as Lipitor®, Pravachol®, Zocor® and Crestor® as well as other highly prescribed drugs like Metformin for blood sugar control, Beta-Blockers like Lopressor and Tenormin® and antidepressants like Lexapro®, Zoloft® and Paxil® are damaging your immune health by depleting your bodies supply of CoQ10… leaving you open to illness!
Clinical Fact #2: Most people regularly taking these drugs are not supplementing with CoQ10 and if they are, odds are the CoQ10 they’re taking isn’t helping!
There’s not a shadow of a doubt in cardiac and immunology circles — if you don’t have enough CoQ10 you WILL get sick and die before your time.
The rule of thumb is: When your natural CoQ10 levels drop by 25%, you get ill. When they drop by 75%, you die!
There’s a MOUNTAIN of EVIDENCE CoQ10 is your body’s Miracle Worker: over 50 years of research, a Nobel Prize, eight international symposia and 300 studies by 200 researchers in 18 countries PROVE CoQ10 can help…
Energize your heart: In one study, 100% of doctors report positive results; and failing hearts become 80% STRONGER as reported in another study…
Relieve chest pain…
Reduce complications and hospitalizations…
Restore up to 87% of heart function in just eight weeks…
Reduce damage to immune cells by free radicals…
Protect immune health…
Act as a natural antioxidant…
Get high blood pressure patients OFF medications…
And much, MUCH MORE!
If you aren’t currently supplementing with CoQ10, you’re probably rethinking that decision after seeing that list, but as they say on TV… “wait there’s more”…
…that’s because some of the most prescribed drugs in America today —
Cholesterol lowering drugs like Lipitor® and Zocor® called statins…
Beta-blockers for lowering blood pressure like Toprol-XL® and Inderal®…
Anti-diabetic drugs to control blood sugar like Glucophage® and Glucovance®…
And antidepressants, known as SSRIs like Prozac® and Celexa® cause SEVERE Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) depletion.
All patients taking these drugs risk becoming deficient in Coenzyme Q10! In all, over 120 prescription medications LOWER your CoQ10 levels!
A study reported in Clinical Investigation, a major medical journal, showed how 94 HEART PATIENTS IN A ROW died within six months of their CoQ10 levels dropping too low. Note: Not 94 patients out of a 1,000; 94 patients, ONE-AFTER-THE OTHER! All dead! Depletion of Coenzyme Q10 is so DANGEROUS because…
It’s critical in helping produce the metabolic energy known as ATP your whole body runs on, and…
Without this energy NONE of your cells can function correctly!
Every system in your body — from muscles and immunity to organs like your heart, brain, and liver — NEED this cellular energy to function properly; without it they won’t work, you get sick; and if not corrected, you’ll die. In one double-blind, randomized clinical trial, patients taking statin drugs over a period of 18 weeks had a decline of CoQ10 levels of 25%!!! In just 18 weeks a QUARTER of their CoQ10 was gone!
This research is not new! Researchers, doctors and pharmaceutical companies have known for decades statin drugs cause critical depletion of CoQ10 — arguably your bodies most essential nutrient…
Consider this, 20 years ago French researchers demonstrated that statin drugs significantly weaken your heart muscle in just 12 weeks!
Your body’s Coenzyme Q10 levels naturally started declining when you were only 20 years old. By the time you’re 80 you will likely have 65% lower CoQ10 than when you were young. Starting to make sense, isn’t it?
By the time you hit 60, 70 and 80 years old, you have less than 50% of the CoQ10 than younger Americans!
Remember: When your CoQ10 levels drop by 75%, you die! These drugs can reduce serum levels of CoQ10 by 40%! For the older people on these high “high risk” medications that could be a DEATH SENTENCE!
CoQ10 deficiency is commonly found in cardiac patients…
Approximately 62% of all heart failure patients are deficient in CoQ10… and correcting this deficiency (by taking a CoQ10 supplement) may be an effective solution. —Clinical Cardiology
39% of hypertension patients are found deficient in Coenzyme Q10. In human trials, an average daily dosage of 225 mg of Coenzyme Q10 caused a reduction in average systolic blood pressure from 159 to 147 mm/Hg and a reduction in average diastolic blood pressure from 94 to 85 mm/Hg within three to four months of initiating supplementation. —International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
I know for a fact you can live a longer, healthier more energized life with a healthy diet supplemented with CoQ10. And as you’ll soon see it’s downright critical you get more of this essential nutrient in your body right away!
CoQ10 Revs Up Natural Killer (NK) Cell Activity to Kill Infected Cells!
— Clinical and Experimental Immunology
In 1974, Japan approved CoQ10 as a treatment for heart failure because the science REPEATEDLY PROVED how effective CoQ10 supplementation is for your heart.
Your heart doesn’t rest; it works all day and all night, beating up to two and a half billion times throughout your whole life! That’s why your heart muscle (myocardium) needs the highest levels of energetic support.
And any condition or medication that lowers your CoQ10 levels — the nutrient critical to producing metabolic energy — puts your heart at risk.
Study after study shows most people with high blood pressure are significantly deficient in CoQ10. The proven fact is: Supplementing with CoQ10 can help decrease both your systolic and diastolic blood pressure!
According to prestigious medical journal Clinical Cardiology…
Supplementing with CoQ10 counteracts the severe CoQ10 deficiency that can occur in the heart muscle in conjunction with most serious heart problems.
Coenzyme Q10 alleviates the fatal progressive weakening of the heart muscle — heart failure patients are commonly found deficient in CoQ10.
The medical journal Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy reports that, in patients who’ve suffered disastrous interruption of blood flow to the heart, CoQ10 supplementation may improve their condition in as little as 30 days!
And get this: After taking CoQ10, patients experienced as much as 66% LESS chest pain and 72% fewer heart rhythm disturbances than those who did not take CoQ10.
What’s more, total cardiac events — including cardiac deaths — were about HALF in patients taking CoQ10 compared to those who did not!
The journal’s conclusion: “Coenzyme Q10 can provide rapid protective effects in patients if administered within three days of the onset of (cardiac) symptoms.”
100% of Cardiologists in a Study Report Positive Results
Of eight placebo controlled studies on CoQ10’s effectiveness on diseased hearts: two in the United States, two in Japan, two in Germany, one in Sweden, and one in the United Kingdom. ALL EIGHT confirmed the effectiveness and safety of CoQ10. There have been eight international symposia on CoQ10 and 300 studies by 200 researchers from 18 countries, mostly focused on heart problems. All with remarkably CONSISTENT CONCLUSIONS:
100% of Doctors Report Positive Results: According to a study of 65 cardiologists treating 806 patients for weakening hearts and loss of blood flow to the heart. EVERY-SINGLE-DOCTOR reported “significant” improvements of their patient’s symptoms after supplementing with CoQ10.
80% Improvement for Heart Patients: Another study (reported in the respected medical journal Clinical Investigator following 2,667 patients with failing hearts) reported that 80% of patients experienced improvement after taking only 50-150 mg of CoQ10 daily for just three to five months!
Substantially Reduces Complications and Hospitalizations: Also reported in the Clinical Investigator was a 12 month, double-blind, placebo controlled study of 319 patients taking CoQ10 vs. 322 taking a placebo. Patients taking CoQ10 had far FEWER complications and a greatly reduced need for hospitalization.
On top of that, the medical journal Molecular Aspects of Medicine says: “In patients with heart valve problems, heart function was restored to normal in 87% of patients receiving 2 mg of Coenzyme Q10 per kilogram (kg) of body weight per day for eight weeks.”
The same respected journal reports…
Coenzyme Q10 may improve blood circulation throughout your body… promoting the overall health of your body…
Coenzyme Q10 may help the heart work normally even in the presence of blood clots… giving you further protection against these deadly killers…
Coenzyme Q10 may improve your heart’s ability to survive and produce energy even if you’re on limited oxygen: due to shortness of breath, with clogged arteries, experiencing chest pains, and when your blood is too rich with fat…
Coenzyme Q10 may counteract the toxic effects of a brain starved of oxygen…
Coenzyme Q10 may stop the sudden and catastrophic interruption of blood flow to your brain…
THE BOTTOM LINE: With results like these, why every adult over 50 isn’t taking — the gold standard of all natural heart protectors — CoQ10 every day is beyond me!
Why CoQ10 Helps You Live Longer
Without enough energy your muscles get weaker and your body gets tired faster. Your “get-up-and-go” disappears. You’re plagued with exhaustion, fatigue, and depression.
CoQ10 is the “jet fuel” every one of your 100 trillion living cells needs to do its job and to reproduce normally. Your body uses CoQ10 to turn nutrients into ATP — proclaimed by the Nobel Prize committee, “the universal energy currency of ALL living cells!”
The cellular energy you get from CoQ10 energizes and repairs every cell, muscle, tissue, and organ in your entire body. When it’s present, your immune system works to its full capacity to replace and repair damaged cells and to protect you from known pathogens, virus and bacteria causing sickness.
But when you’re CoQ10-deficient, everything breaks down and you suffer serious, even catastrophic health problems.
The clinical proof says it all: The more CoQ10 you have, the longer you’ll live!
Whole-Body Miracle Worker
Scientists and researchers around the globe believe CoQ10 may work miracles for patients with infections, brain, and nervous system ailments, infertility, headaches, skin conditions… even leg pain and more!
More than one expert is even reporting it enhances athletic performance! If ever there were a “Wonder Nutrient” CoQ10 is it. Just look at what else CoQ10 has been shown to do…
Helps strengthen failing muscles: CoQ10 has been shown to help slow the progression of muscle wasting. It was this that interested Dr. Karl Folkers, then a MERCK biochemist, before he walked out when MERCK refused to continue research into CoQ10 because they could never patent it and make a mint on it.
Helps guard and improve brain and nervous system performance: Coenzyme Q10 improves your mitochondria’s (your cell’s power “factories”) ability to produce energy in your cells. This has been proven extremely helpful for patients with neurological and brain disorders.
Helps eliminate free radicals before they can harm you: CoQ10 effectively neutralizes free radicals in your body. Left un-neutralized, free radicals can degrade, damage, and eventually DESTROY your blood vessels, joints, and even organs over time. Free radical damage IS the aging process! Free radicals even bombard your cells and can alter your DNA!
Fights the effects of aging on your body: CoQ10 preserves and even recycles vitamin E in your body, ANOTHER potent antioxidant. Put simply, CoQ10 works DOUBLE-TIME to protect your aging body!
Immunity problems and CoQ10: In the respected medical journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, two leading researchers, Dr. Karl Folkers and Dr. Peter Langsjoen, reported how they treated seven different patients — all with severely depressed immune systems.
The results: ALL the patients were actually FEELING better shortly after starting on CoQ10!
The U.S. National Institutes of Health and 300 studies by 200 researchers from 18 countries PROVE CoQ10 can end the energy crisis in YOUR body!
Actual study results show…
Failing Hearts: 80% STRONGER!
Blood Pressure: 50% BETTER!
Chest Pain: 66% RELIEVED!
Immune Health: 100% STRENGTHENED!
Fluid Retention: 78% LESS!
Sleep Problems: 66% IMPROVED!
Enlarged Livers: 49% SHRINK!
Lung Problems: 54% RELIEVED!
Acid Reflux: 71% BETTER!
Nighttime Urination: 53% LESS!
CoQ10 May Even Help Free You of a Life Sentence of Prescription Drugs!
Because it supports your body from the cells up, CoQ10 may even help free you from having to take all those heart and blood pressure medications doctors pile on you…
43% of Heart Patients Get OFF Prescription Drugs: A study of 424 patients with cardiovascular conditions reported 43% were able to completely stop taking between one and three heart drugs after CoQ10 therapy! The authors even wrote CoQ10 was, “Ushering in a new era of cellular/biochemical treatment.”
50% of High Blood Pressure Patients get OFF Prescription Drugs: Another study of 100 high blood pressure patients showed 50% of patients could stop taking their blood pressure meds after about four months on CoQ10!
Proven 100% Safe Over 50 Years of Study and Use
With results as dramatic as those, many folks ask, “Is something as powerful as CoQ10 really safe to take?”
The answer researchers give is an unqualified, resounding, “YES!” In the 50 years CoQ10 has been researched, prescribed by doctors and cardiologists, and used by millions, not a single, solitary negative side-effect has ever been reported that we can find!
Even patients taking powerful pharmaceutical drugs along with CoQ10 have reported CoQ10 to be 100% safe!
Even more important: CoQ10 actually PROTECTS YOU from some of the harmful side effects of statin drugs and more than 120 prescription drugs that BLOCK your body’s production of CoQ10!
“If you have a heart, you NEED CoQ10!”— Pharmacotherapy Medical Journal
Even if you’re not currently taking prescription drugs — and feel like a million bucks — you can help add years to your life by taking Coenzyme Q10 every day…
Supplementing with Coenzyme Q10 is a no-brainer — not just because you could die sooner without it, but because all the PROOF shows it can dramatically improve your quality of life! CoQ10…
Energizes your heart muscle — even in folks diagnosed with failing hearts…
Helps maintain your normal blood pressure and heart rhythm…
Fights the physical effects of aging by scrubbing the dangerous free radicals out of your body…
Helps banish chest pain…
Energizes all the muscle tissue in your body from the cell-level up…
Revs up the body’s own viral killing (NK) cell activity…
The list goes on and on!
NO WONDER millions of health-conscious people around the world take CoQ10 daily.
But this massive demand for CoQ10 has caused scores of substandard products to flood the market!
As Many as nine out of ten CoQ10 Supplements are JUNK!
Thanks to the medical buzz around Coenzyme Q10, it’s one of the most in-demand nutritional supplements on the planet.
How hot? In its raw form, CoQ10 sells for a mind-blowing $300 a pound — and it’s also one of the costliest supplements you’ll find in your local health food store.
Problem is: The vast majority of CoQ10 on the market is practically worthless.
CoQ10 is famous for being difficult for you to absorb. And mass-market — think grocery and drug store brands — vitamin companies don’t want to go to the expense of making CoQ10 your body can absorb and use.
Four reasons why 90% of the CoQ10 sold today — including the brand YOU may be taking now — is worse than worthless to you…
#1 The Powder Problem: CoQ10 can be made either as a liquid or as a powder. Powder is the cheapest way to produce it. Most CoQ10 manufacturers try to shave costs by producing the cheap powder form.
Problem is: Lab studies show most powdered CoQ10 NEVER GETS ABSORBED in your body, let alone used!
You think you’re giving your body the miracle nutrient it craves, but in reality, you might as well take the cash out of your wallet and flush it directly into the toilet.
#2 The Crystal Conundrum: Your body makes pure, clean Coenzyme Q10. But when CoQ10 is commercially manufactured, the heating and cooling process creates crystals — and those crystals are nearly IMPOSSIBLE for your body to dissolve or absorb.
That means only a FRACTION of the CoQ10 you’re taking has any chance of actually being absorbed into your body to use!
Another problem: The dosage amount promised on many of these bottles is absolutely MEANINGLESS. How do you know how much of the CoQ10 in them is in crystalline form — and therefore worthless — and how much actually gets through to energize your cells? You don’t!
#3 The Fat Fallacy: CoQ10 is a fat-soluble nutrient. For efficient CoQ10 absorption, it either needs to be introduced in a fat-soluble medium or taken with fat in the diet. But the vast majority of CoQ10 on the market today fails to include fat molecules that will help ensure maximum absorption!
#4 The Conversion Controversy: Powders, crystals and lack of fat — which make it next to impossible for your body to absorb CoQ10 — are only half the problem. Most CoQ10 on the market is in the form of Ubiquinone.
The body must convert Ubiquinone into Ubiquinol first before the CoQ10 can begin to provide you any benefit. To make matters worse, it becomes increasingly harder for your body to turn Ubiquinone into Ubiquinol as you age.
Bottom line… Ubiquinone CoQ10 supplements become less effective the older you get.
RESULT: The body cannot convert nor absorb the vast majority of CoQ10 available on the market. That means, most of it goes right through you, and again, you might as well take your money out of your wallet and throw it directly into the toilet!
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