The #1 Best Food for CoQ10 (Coenzyme Q10)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Let’s talk about coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10).
Coenzyme Q10 is a helper molecule inside your mitochondria that helps make energy within your cells. It also helps stabilize the membrane in the cells, preventing any leakage of electrons. If you don’t have enough coenzyme Q10, you’ll lose energy.
Top benefits of coenzyme Q10:
• It increases energy
• It reduces fatigue (especially while exercising)
• It increases your oxygen while exercising
• It improves your repair while exercising and overall exercise performance
• It can help support a healthy heart
• It acts as an antioxidant
• It supports the arteries
Foods high in coenzyme Q10:
1. Heart muscle
2. Organ meats
3. Fatty fish
4. Extra virgin olive oil
Exercise indirectly increases the amount of CoQ10 your body makes. You can also get CoQ10 from supplements.
Top things that inhibit coenzyme Q10:
1. Statins
2. Age
3. Low vitamin C, B6, folate, or alpha-lipoic acid
4. Anything that damages the mitochondria
5. Stress
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| 0:00.0 | I'd like to discuss this very interesting, amazing molecule called co-enzyme Q10. |
| 0:06.4 | Now, what is it, and where do you get it, and what food has the highest amount? |
| 0:10.4 | Co-enzyme Q10 is a helper molecule that is inside your mitochondria |
| 0:15.1 | to help you make energy ATP in your cells. |
| 0:20.7 | And it is in every single cell in the body. It helps in this |
| 0:24.6 | transformation into ATP as well as stabilizing the membrane and preventing any type of leakage of |
| 0:34.4 | electrons. Now, if you think about a battery, a battery is filled with this energy that is filled with electrons, |
| 0:40.3 | and if you had a hole in the battery and they leaked out, you would get a dead battery. |
| 0:45.3 | Same exact thing happens in your cells in relationship to co-enzyme Q10. |
| 0:50.3 | If you don't have enough of it, you're going to have a loss of energy. |
| 0:56.0 | I think the best way to kind of help you understand the significance of coenzyme Q10 |
| 1:02.0 | is to talk about what happens with statins. When you take a statin, you could generate this condition |
| 1:09.0 | called statin-induced myopathies because statin drugs block the formation of co-enzym Q-10. |
| 1:17.6 | Now, what is a myopathy? Like, what type of problems can you have when you have a myopathy? |
| 1:22.8 | Well, muscle pain, muscle weakness, and you're going to have an intolerance to exercise. |
| 1:28.3 | You're not going to want to exercise. You're going to get tired real fast. |
| 1:31.3 | Even if you like climb the stairs or climb a hill, you're going to run out of oxygen pretty quick. |
| 1:37.3 | Al enzyme Q10 can increase the energy in your muscles, in your entire body. It can greatly reduce your fatigue, especially when you're exercising. |
| 1:49.0 | It actually can give you more oxygen when you exercise, so you're less winded, |
| 1:53.0 | and it also can improve your repair when you exercise. |
| 1:58.0 | So that's going to improve your performance. |
| 2:00.0 | Now, if you have congestive heart failure, you should definitely be taking coenzyme Q10 or |
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