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@713j Yes take Co-Q-10. Back in 2016 the cardiologist (Mayo Jacksonville) who prescribed a statin to me recommended I take co-q-10 as you can get muscle aches from taking the statin.
Then my heart failure docotor (Mayo Jacksonville) a couple of years ago recommended I take Co-!-10 for my heart failure. He suggested 200 mg.
What I take is a combination of Ubiquinol and Co-q-10. Ubiquinol is a much easier absorbed version of Co-Q-10 but much more expensive. I take 1 soft gel of Ubiquionol 100 mg. in morning. Then I take 2 more of pills of the regular Co-Q-10 (one at lunch/dinner) at 100 mg each. So I am taking 300 mg a day.
You can find the Ubiquionol at some good prices at Qunol, and Life Extension. VitaCost is also a huge supplier of vitamins and supplements and carries almost all brands as well as their own. It can be expensive so you can see why I do a combination. I was using Puritan Pride but unless they were have special sale found their prices for Ubiquionol expensive. Their prices for Co-Q-10 though are pretty good.
I never had the muscle aches as was already taking Co-Q-10 when told to take it by first cardiologist. I am kind of a supplement/vitamin fanatic who reads and researches a lot. So by the time my doctors recommend something to me like fish oil, magnesium, etc., I am already taking it.
My wife when she got prescription for statin did get muscle aches. I suggested to her try co-q-10 and she did. She told me it did help reduce the muscle soreness and eventually soreness went away. The heart is a muscle so what ever the Co-Q-10 does for muscles probably does same for heart and why my heart failure doctor wanted me to use it.
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It is a waste of money to buy Ubiquinone vs Ubiquinol. Ubiquinone is not bio available when a person is older than their 40s. Saving a few bucks on an item that is not absorbed is just a waste. I take 800 mg ubiquinol a day. Japanese researchers looked into very high doses of ubiquinol (4K mg/day) and found it useful for heart failure. I gave my 7 year old 40# dog 200 mg a day to cure her heart murmur. Look at additives in your supplements. Qunol uses an emulsifier called polysorbate 80 which is a neurotoxin. Blue bonnet uses an emulsifier called carrageen with destroys healthy naturally occurring probiotic called akkermansia muciniphila.
Magnesium citrate is used to helped the bowels. Magnesium taurate is used for heart issues. There are I think 7 or 8 different kinds of magnesium.
"Supplemental ubiquinol in patients with advanced congestive heart failure". https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19096107/
Abstract
Patients with CHF, NYHA class IV, often fail to achieve adequate plasma CoQ10 levels on supplemental ubiquinone at dosages up to 900 mg/day. These patients often have plasma total CoQ10 levels of less than 2.5 microg/ml and have limited clinical improvement. It is postulated that the intestinal edema in these critically ill patients may impair CoQ10 absorption. We identified seven patients with advanced CHF (mean EF 22%) with sub-therapeutic plasma CoQ10 levels with mean level of 1.6 microg/ml on an average dose of 450 mg of ubiquinone daily (150-600 mg/day). All seven of these patients were changed to an average of 580 mg/day of ubiquinol (450-900 mg/day) with follow-up plasma CoQ10 levels, clinical status, and EF measurements by echocardiography. Mean plasma CoQ10 levels increased from 1.6 microg/ml (0.9-2.0 microg/ml) up to 6.5 microg/ml (2.6-9.3 microg/ml). Mean EF improved from 22% (10-35%) up to 39% (10-60%) and clinical improvement has been remarkable with NYHA class improving from a mean of IV to a mean of II (I to III). Ubiquinol has dramatically improved absorption in patients with severe heart failure and the improvement in plasma CoQ10 levels is correlated with both clinical improvement and improvement in measurement of left ventricular function.
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Good info. How much magnesium do you take? Did you ever hear of heart calm with the three magnesium? Your thoughts?