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January 9, 2006
Energize Your Heart: The Miracle of CoQ10
The human body requires adequate levels of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) to survive. It's no secret that this essential antioxidant is important to maintain a healthy heart, but there is one dirty little secret about CoQ10 that drug manufacturers don’t want you to know: Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs slash the levels of CoQ10 in the body. In fact, studies found that statin drugs lower CoQ10 levels by as much as 40 percent.
Drug companies know about this dangerous side effect. One company even developed a statin-CoQ10 combination drug to offset the CoQ10 stripped from the body but decided not to market the drug to avoid highlighting this harmful side effect. Clearly the companies recognize that their drugs drain the body of CoQ10, and they have done nothing to educate physicians and patients about this very real danger of taking statins. Instead, they downplay this fact in hopes that the news about this side effect does not interfere with drug sales.
Unfortunately, most doctors don’t know enough about the link between statin drugs and CoQ10 to recommend that their patients take supplements. Some misinformed doctors even discourage the use of CoQ10 and other nutritional supplements altogether.
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Posted by james at January 9, 2006 6:25 AM