{"id":1181,"date":"2012-06-23T14:13:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T21:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2013-02-11T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T23:49:06","slug":"coq10-for-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/coq10-for-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"CoQ10 for your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CoQ10 (pronounced Coenzyme Q10), is an anti-oxidant, which can benefit many conditions<sup>1<\/sup>.  It is known to strengthen the heart and can even lower mild hypertension.  CoQ10 is absolutely necessary when one is on statin drugs (for high cholesterol or hyperlipidemia\/dyslipidemia) or even when one is on the more natural form of Red Yeast Rice extract to counteract serious side effects (for more info see:  add reference &#8211; blog).<\/p>\n<p>The average person could use 100 mg\/day whereas someone with hypertension or cardiovascular disease could be taking up to 400 mg\/day (discuss with alternative healthcare provider). <\/p>\n<p><u>Pathologies with anecdotal coenzyme Q10 therapeutic benefit<\/u><sup>2<\/sup>:<br \/>\nMitochondrial neuromuscular diseases<br \/>\nNeurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson\u2019s disease, dementias,<br \/>\nothers)<br \/>\nCongestive heart failure-prevention\/support therapy<br \/>\nMuscle weakness<br \/>\nChronic fatigue syndrome<br \/>\nCancer-breast treatment<br \/>\nChemotherapy amelioration, support for AZT\/AIDS treatment<br \/>\nVascular disease, diabetes mellitus<br \/>\nSports medicine. Performance enhancement (not a pathology)<\/p>\n<p><b>References<\/b>:<br \/>\n1) Summary of research on benefits of CoQ10:  <a href=\"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/docs\/CoQ10Mono.pdf\">CoQ10 Monograph<\/a><br \/>\n2)  Research article reference:<br \/>\nCellular redox poise modulation; the role of coenzyme Q10, gene and metabolic regulation, Anthony W. Linnane and Hayden Eastwood, <em>Mitochondrion<\/em> 4 (2004) 779\u2013789<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CoQ10 (pronounced Coenzyme Q10), is an anti-oxidant, which can benefit many conditions1. It is known to strengthen the heart and can even lower mild hypertension. CoQ10 is absolutely necessary when one is on statin drugs (for high cholesterol or hyperlipidemia\/dyslipidemia) or even when one is on the more natural form of Red Yeast Rice extract <a href='https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/coq10-for-your-heart\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,58],"tags":[68,176,286,122,285,181,284,287,288],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardio","category-htn","tag-cancer-2","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-congestive-heart-failure","tag-diabetes-2","tag-dyslipidemia","tag-hyperlipidemia","tag-hypertension","tag-parkinsons","tag-peridontal-disease","category-57-id","category-58-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQuRZ-j3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}