There is no best brand of CoQ10 Re: Re: Best brand of CoQ10.

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Kip Cleaver wrote:

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> This is an important topic, as nutritional supplements are so often

> widely criticized for having unknown content, usable content, whatever.

> I am certainly no expert, but I am impressed with the certification

> organizations that Usana has used to certify their products. One of the

> organizations is who certifies pharmaceuticals in Australia. Here is a

> link to the their page, which talks about their production facilities,

> all in the US and two certifying organizations they use to approve their

> products.

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> http://www.usana.com/dotCom/company/manufacturing/index

> <http://www.usana.com/dotCom/company/manufacturing/index>

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> I do not see coq10 listed on the site, we buy it from a representative.

> I also have read widely that many of the products out there contain very

> little coq10. They all seem to have impressive sounding credentials,

> but I would be skeptical. Especially of any produced overseas.

>

> Kip

First, until perhaps recently, ALL coQ10 was produced overseas, in

Japan, where it is a drug and where the patent was held. There was a

manufacturing plant being build in the USA but I don't know if it is

complete. In other words, unless this USA plant is complete and

operational, ALL CoQ10 is from overseas regardless of packaging and brand.

Second, CoQ10 is CoQ10 is CoQ10. No mater who you buy it from, it will

have pretty much what the bottle says it has and will be the same

identical product. The primary difference will be in what kind of

filler if any is used in the product, what other items are included in

the product like something oil based to improve absorption, and how it

is packaged, raw powder, capsules, gelcaps, etc.

If you take some kind of oil with CoQ10, like some fish oil, then pretty

much any brand you buy will do the trick regardless of cost. This is

not a case of 'You get what you pay for' but a case of you get the same

results " no matter how much you pay " . It's like choosing to spend $15 a

gallon for gas when $3 a gallon will get you the same product and take

your car the same distance. Paying more doesn't get you a better

product or make your car go farther.

I personally would buy regular CoQ10 from The Life Extension Foundation

primarily because they include d-Limonene which increases absorption.

On the other hand, CoQ10 when absorbed is turned into something else

which is measurable in the blood stream. Taking this something else,

Ubiquinol CoQ10, raises the blood concentration by a factor of 8 when

compared milligram to milligram to regular CoQ10. In other words, 50 mg

of Ubiquinol CoQ10 is equivalent to 400 mg of regular CoQ10.

Personally, I'm currently taking 100 mg of Ubiquinol CoQ10 giving me the

same results as 800 mg of regular CoQ10. When I was taking a statin, I

was taking the equivalent of 1200 mg of CoQ10 but cut back when I

stopped the statin last August.

There is no best brand of CoQ10 because there is no perfect balance

between cost, fillers, absorption, container type (gelcaps, capsules,

powder), etc but there is a problem with paying too much because one

thinks the quality of the CoQ10 is somehow different brand to brand -

it's not.

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