How does coenzyme Q10 help keep my heart healthy?

Coenzyme Q10 helps keep the heart healthy; it's a potent antioxidant that helps repair heart muscle and relax blood vessels. Chinese medicine expert, Mao Shing Ni, L.Ac. & PhD, explains all the heart healthy benefits of COQ10.

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If your blood vessel is too tight, then the pressure is going to rise while CoQ10 helps to relax those muscles

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and therefore expand the diameter of your blood vessel. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Coenzyme Q10 is otherwise known as CoQ10, is an antioxidant and quite a potent one.

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A lot of studies show that it helps with heart muscle rejuvenation, as well as other muscle repair,

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but particularly for the heart. And what it has shown to also do is to relax the blood vessels.

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You see, the blood vessel is lined with muscles. And so as the muscles expand, contract, expand,

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contract, that's how the blood gets moved along. If your blood vessel is too tight,

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then the pressure is going to rise. While CoQ10 helps to relax those muscles and therefore expand the diameter of your blood vessel,

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therefore, it helps to lower blood pressure that way. Second benefit, and I would say this is something

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that is quite prevalent, is that CoQ10 is used for patients who are on statin drugs.

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Heart doctors prescribe statin drugs to help lower cholesterol. And in the process, these statin drugs

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blocks the manufacturing of CoQ10 in your body. So, by supplementing with CoQ10, along with your statin drugs,

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you can reduce the likelihood of developing side effects, like muscle pain and atrophy.

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So CoQ10, the dose for CoQ10, I recommend 200 milligrams

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on a daily basis taken at night. [AUDIO LOGO]