Effect of Coenzyme Q10

1. Antioxidant effect
With its antioxidant effect, Coenzyme Q10 removes active oxygen that damages cells, thereby helping maintain health in daily life for long time. Attacked by active oxygen, cells lose functions or become changed in nature. Coenzyme Q10 is effective to eliminate active oxygen, thereby helping health physical functions.

2. Energy generation and fatigue recovery
Coenzyme Q10 is the essential coenzymes that make the energy source named ATP through fatty acid metabolism in cellular mitochondria. 95% of energy necessary for human body is made through this path, to help recharge vitality.

3. Reducing blood pressure
When Coenzyme Q10 taken, hypertensive patients showed the reducing blood pressure both during contraction period and relaxation period.

4. Sperm activity
Low concentration in Coenzyme Q10 and phospholipid of sperms can cause asthenospermia and sterility. In the results of having a male sterile take 200mg of Coenzyme Q10 (twice a day) for 6 months, there was the increase in both sperm motility and pregnancy rate.

5. Strengthened immunity
Coenzyme Q10 is effective as a supplement for cancer prevention and AIDs cure purposes.

6. Improved periodontitis
Lack of Coenzyme Q10 leads to no metabolism of citric acid but accumulated in gum, causing infection. Coenzyme Q10 reduces gum blooding and infection.

7. Anti-aging of skin
Coenzyme Q10 has the effects to strengthen the generation of skin cells and elasticity as well as to remove wrinkles. Also, it has whitening effect, by inhibiting melanin.

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1. Usefulness of coenzyme Q10 in clinical cardiology: a long-term study. (Langsjoen H1, Langsjoen P, Langsjoen P, Willis R, Folkers K. Mol Aspects Med. 1994;15 Suppl:s165-75.)

: Coenzyme Q10 is a supplement safe and effective to cardiovascular disorders.

2. Effect of hydrosoluble coenzyme Q10 on blood pressures and insulin resistance in hypertensive patients with coronary artery disease. (Singh RB1, Niaz MA, Rastogi SS, Shukla PK, Thakur AS. J Hum Hypertens. 1999 Mar;13(3):203-8.)

: Coenzyme Q10 reduces oxidation stress, thereby lowering blood pressure.

3. Coenzyme Q10 administration and its potential for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. (Beal MF. Biofactors. 1999;9(2-4):261-6.)

: The intake of Coenzyme Q10 reduces the concentration of high lactic acid of patients with Huntington's chorea (a rare disease common during one’s 30s), which can be used as a medicine for neurodegenerative diseases. 

4. Effect of coenzyme Q10 on risk of atherosclerosis in patients with recent myocardial infarction. (Singh RB1, Neki NS, Kartikey K, Pella D, Kumar A, Niaz MA, Thakur AS. Mol Cell Biochem. 2003 Apr;246(1-2):75-82.)

: Coenzyme Q10 has beneficial effects on myocardial infarction patients which belong to high-risk group thrombosis patient category.

5. Efficacy of coenzyme Q10 on semen parameters, sperm function and reproductive hormones in infertile men. (Safarinejad MR. J Urol. 2009 Jul;182(1):237-48. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.02.121. Epub 2009 May 17.)

: There was efficacy of Coenzyme Q10 supplement on semen parameters.

6. Effects of L-Carnitine and Coenzyme Q10 on Impaired Spermatogenesis Caused by Isoproterenol in Male Rats. (Ghanbarzadeh S1, Garjani A, Ziaee M, Khorrami A. Drug Res (Stuttg). 2013 Nov 27. [Epub ahead of print])

: The intake of L-Carnitine and Coenzyme Q10 improved semen parameters impaired by Isoproterenol (ISO).

7. Role of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) in cardiac disease, hypertension and Meniere-like syndrome. (Kumar A1, Kaur H. Pharmacol Ther. 2009 Dec;124(3):259-68. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2009.07.003. Epub 2009 Jul 25.)

8. Coenzyme Q10 and cognition in atorvastatin treated dogs. (Martin SB1, Cenini G, Barone E, Dowling AL, Mancuso C. 2011 Aug 26;501(2):92-5. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.06.054. Epub 2011 Jul 8.)

: The concentration of Coenzyme Q10 in brain is related to improving impaired cognition, in atorvastatin treatment.