coenzyme q10
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Biology 101
Vincennes University
01 November 2013
Instructor: Jeff
Coenzyme Q10
Scientists and doctors have spent countless hours in laboratories researching the factors that cause disease and ways to support healthy organ function throughout life. Doctors have concluded that many of the chemicals your body produces plays a key role in the prevention of disease. Elevating some natural chemicals have shown to even assist in the therapy of diseases and/or ease the symptoms of treatments for the illness. After many years of research and case studies, scientists have demonstrated that the levels of Coenzyme Q10 your body produces and contains plays a large factor in the quality of life of patients suffering from and diseases such as Cancer, Heart failure, Muscular Dystrophy and even Parkinson’s and the probability of developing such diseases.
What is Q10 you ask? Coenzyme Q10 (also known as Ubiquinone, Q10, CoQ10 and Ubidecarenone) is a benzoquinone compound manufactured naturally by the body and is found in most breathing organisms from bacteria to mammals. It was designated Coenzyme Q10 because of its quinone structure (any member of a class of cyclic organic compounds containing two carbonyl groups) and the ten isoprene (an unsaturated hydrocarbon) unit side chain. It was first identified in 1940 as a compound in the body by Professor Fredrick L. Crane while at the University of Wisconsin and later isolated in the heart of cows in 1957. In 1958, its chemical compound was determined by Dr. Folkers and his group of associates. CoQ10 got it other name, Ubiquinone, from another group of scientists led by Dr. Morton, a English Scientist, that isolated the same substance from a mitochondria, the energy factories of the cells, and named it Ubiquinone because of its widespread occurrence in nature. This occurred at the same time Dr. Folkers’ team was researching the compound in the United States. Level of
Biology 101
Vincennes University
01 November 2013
Instructor: Jeff
Coenzyme Q10
Scientists and doctors have spent countless hours in laboratories researching the factors that cause disease and ways to support healthy organ function throughout life. Doctors have concluded that many of the chemicals your body produces plays a key role in the prevention of disease. Elevating some natural chemicals have shown to even assist in the therapy of diseases and/or ease the symptoms of treatments for the illness. After many years of research and case studies, scientists have demonstrated that the levels of Coenzyme Q10 your body produces and contains plays a large factor in the quality of life of patients suffering from and diseases such as Cancer, Heart failure, Muscular Dystrophy and even Parkinson’s and the probability of developing such diseases.
What is Q10 you ask? Coenzyme Q10 (also known as Ubiquinone, Q10, CoQ10 and Ubidecarenone) is a benzoquinone compound manufactured naturally by the body and is found in most breathing organisms from bacteria to mammals. It was designated Coenzyme Q10 because of its quinone structure (any member of a class of cyclic organic compounds containing two carbonyl groups) and the ten isoprene (an unsaturated hydrocarbon) unit side chain. It was first identified in 1940 as a compound in the body by Professor Fredrick L. Crane while at the University of Wisconsin and later isolated in the heart of cows in 1957. In 1958, its chemical compound was determined by Dr. Folkers and his group of associates. CoQ10 got it other name, Ubiquinone, from another group of scientists led by Dr. Morton, a English Scientist, that isolated the same substance from a mitochondria, the energy factories of the cells, and named it Ubiquinone because of its widespread occurrence in nature. This occurred at the same time Dr. Folkers’ team was researching the compound in the United States. Level of