(NaturalHealth365) When it comes to nutrition, we’ve only learned how powerful coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) can be within the past few decades. This antioxidant plays a significant part in your body’s energy levels, and as you grow older, the body produces less CoQ10 – which means you need to get more of this essential nutrient from food or supplementation.

We’ve continued to learn more about the power of CoQ10, and a new study discovered that supplementing with the nutrient significantly improves mild, daily fatigue in otherwise “healthy” adults.  Published in the Nutrients journal, the study looked at both ubiquinone and ubiquinol forms of CoQ10, and while both resulted in improvement in fatigue levels, ubiquinol offered additional benefits.

Coenzyme Q10 reduced fatigue symptoms and offered a “relaxing effect”

The study included women and men between the ages of 20 and 64 who dealt with fatigue daily for a minimum of a month but no longer than six months. Twenty individuals were provided with a placebo, 22 were given 150 mg of CoQ10 in the form of ubiquinol, and 20 were given 100 mg of CoQ10 in the form of ubiquinone.

At the beginning of the study, subjective fatigue questionnaires were administered and the serum ubiquinol levels of each participant was taken. Biological oxidation and autonomic nerve function assessments were also done to evaluate the objective fatigue of participants. These were repeated every four weeks throughout this study.

At the end of the study, the group receiving ubiquinol had significantly higher levels of serum ubiquinol compared to the placebo group. Both groups receiving CoQ10 supplementation saw significant improvements in subjective levels of fatigue and sleepiness after doing cognitive tasks at the end of the study.

In additional, individuals receiving the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 also saw improvements in their subjective relaxation after completing cognitive tasks, greater task motivation, improved serum oxidative stress levels, and the amount of sleepiness they experienced after tasks. Researchers believe that ubiquinol improves quality of life in individuals dealing with mild fatigue by reducing sleepiness and fatigue after performing cognitive tasks, while also reducing oxidative stress and offering a relaxing effect.

Additional dramatic health benefits to supplementing with CoQ10

While this new study highlights the ability of CoQ10 to reduce fatigue, supplementing with CoQ10 offers many other dramatic health benefits, too. Additional health benefits of CoQ10 include:

• Reduces the risk of heart disease: Studies show that coenzyme Q10 not only helps prevent heart disease, but it can decrease your risk, too. Multiple studies have even shown it helps improve heart strength in patients with heart failure.
• Lowers inflammation levels: CoQ10 also helps reduce inflammation throughout the body, which helps prevent disease caused by inflammation.
• Fights cognitive decline: Low levels of CoQ10 are linked to health problems like Parkinson’s and dementia.  CoQ10 works as a neuroprotective that improves memory, boosts brain performance, and fights age-related cognitive decline.

To get more CoQ10 in your diet, great natural food sources include sardines, beef liver, broccoli, grass-fed beef, mackerel and chicken.  However, many people don’t get the CoQ10 they need from their diet, which is where a powerful ubiquinol supplement can be beneficial.

Talk to your doctor, especially if you’re taking a statin drug (which lowers CoQ10 levels in the body) and see what’s best for you.

Sources for this article include:

MDPI.com
LifeExtension.com
DrStevenLin.com