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Out of curiosity I decided to do some additional research on COQ10. I wanted to find out if there was a connection between COQ10 and cell energy. I was also looking for information on COQ10 and lung disease. I was curious if COQ10 could oxygenate cells and improve breathing.

I found lots of information that pointed to an apparently famous study done in Japan around 1992-93. One of the reasons I am so big on COQ10 is because of how I feel when I take it. Apparently, there is good scientific basis for my belief in this product. It is one of the reasons I so strongly recommend it to people.

Conference on Coenzyme Q10

Effects of coenzymeQ₁₀ administration on pulmonary function and exercise performance in patients with chronic lung diseases

First Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School. Clin Investig 1993;71(8 Suppl):S162-6

S. Fujimoto^{1, 2}, N. Kurihara¹, K. Hirata¹ and T. Takeda¹

Summary  Serum coenzyme Q₁₀ (CoQ₁₀) levels were measured at rest and during incremental exercise in 21 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 9 patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The mean serum CoQ₁₀ levels at rest in patients with COPD and IPF were 0.56 ± 0.20 and 0.45 ± 0.16 g/ml, respectively. In both groups these levels were decreased compared with those of healthy subjects. In the patients with COPD, CoQ₁₀ levels were significantly correlated with body weight, however, there was no correlation between CoQ₁₀ levels and ventilatory function, PaO₂, VO₂/kg at rest, or maximal VO₂. In eight of nine patients whose PaO₂ at rest was lower than 75 torr, serum CoQ₁₀ levels were lower than 0.5 g/ml. We studied the effects of the oral administration of CoQ₁₀ at 90 mg/day for 8 weeks on pulmonary function and exercise performance in eight patients with COPD. Serum CoQ₁₀ levels were significantly elevated in association with an improvement in hypoxemia at rest, whereas pulmonary function was unaltered. Oxygen consumption during exercise was not changed, whereas PaO₂ was significantly improved, and heart rate was significantly decreased compared with the results obtained at an identical workload at baseline. Furthermore, lactate production was suppressed during the anaerobic exercise stage after CoQ₁₀ administration, and exercise performance tended to increase. These data suggested that CoQ₁₀ has favorable effects on musclar energy metabolism in patients with chronic lung diseases who have hypoxemia at rest and/or during exercise.

Key words  CoenzymeQ₁₀  - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - Hypoxemia - Exercise performance - Blood lactate

Abbreviations  COPD  chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – IPF  idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Paper presented at the 7th International Symposium on The Biomedical and Clinical Aspects of Coenzyme Q (September 18–19, 1992, Copenhagen, Denmark)

This study clearly suggest a large correlation not only between COQ10 and muscle energy, but cell oxygenation as well.

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