Coenzyme Q10 or ubiquinone is found in our body. Ko means combining and working together, and enzyme means enzyme. That is, ubiquinone helps enzymes work. It participates in various processes in our cells and acts as an antioxidant. Something like a popular vitamin.
There is a lot of ubiquinone in the mitochondria of our heart, liver, kidneys, and pancreas.
Coenzyme Q10 decreases with age. Therefore, there was a temptation to catch up with them in the form of biologically active food supplements.
They tried to adapt ubiquinone to treat cancer, or at least to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy, but nothing came of it.
They also tried to feed coenzyme Q10 to patients with heart failure. And they also did not understand whether he was acting, or not very much. So it is not included in the list of remedies useful for heart failure.
Then we noticed that people who receive statins have less ubiquinone in their muscles, and muscles ache. And so they began to give it. And again it didn’t help.
Then the scientists with the last bit of strength found a disease that simply had to be sensitive to coenzyme Q10. It turned out that there is such a hereditary thing, when in mitochondria just a little of this coenzyme is synthesized. That is, you cannot imagine better conditions. Here it is not, but it is added in pills. Again, the results were mixed. It was found that in some cases, with such a rare congenital disease, ubiquinone literally saved babies' lives. But in other cases, for some reason, it did not work.
It is difficult to imagine a more miserable dietary supplement. Much was expected of him, but almost nothing. It's a shame.
We remembered him in stories about muscle pain from statins.
