The supplement CoEnzyme Q10, known as COQ10, has become one of the most popular supplements available online and in shops in the world. Providing energy to the body, as well as being an antioxidant that is found in both animals and plants, this supplement is not to be easily cast aside.

Co-Enzyme Q10 (Co-Q-10) is also known as ubiquinone because of its ubiquity across many of the worlds biological systems in plants and animals.  Co-Q-10 is also made within the body, but the production of COQ-10 falls as the typical person gets older.

Found also in many foods such as meat, it can be lost in cooking or processing. However, in Japan it has been a popular supplement for some time being consumed by millions of people.In research there have been mixed results using COQ10 for high blood pressure, heart failure and related angina. Some studies have shown a slight reduction in blood pressure, but this could be the other medicines being taken. Low CO Q 10 levels have been found in people that sufer from heart failure or diabetes - as well as Parkinsons - so there is a relationship.

Research on mice has shown that it can extend their life by as much as 50%. Imagine what the popularity of this would be if we discovered that COQ10 extended a human life by 20 or 30 percent - let alone 50? Who knows what may be possible in the future!

In gums that have disease of gingivities or pyrrohea, there are low levels of COQ10 which it is thought can be helped by COQ10 supplementation.  This is because some research has found that diseased gums have lower COQ-10 than in typically healthy adults.