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FEATUREENERGY
Do you ever feel as if
your batteries
need recharging?
Everyone experiences it at some time – feeling like a
robot that has simply lost all power. Why does it
happen and what can you do about it?
I
t could have something to do with your consumption, smoking, physical exertion
natural energy supply. or illness.
Comparing yourself to a battery- Dietary supplementation can help to
powered robot helps to explain it - when maintain optimal levels of coenzyme Q10
the batteries run low the robot still works, within the body. Coenzyme Q10
but not very well. It is the same with the supplements can be effective for chronic
human body. fatigue, and may also improve athletic
The supply of energy within the body is endurance. Coenzyme Q10
important at two levels. First, every cell supplementation also helps to maintain
within the body requires a constant supply healthy muscles and a healthy heart.
of energy to survive and function
normally- without this constant energy Battery Power
supply, the cells die. Robots will run better for longer on higher
At the second level, different tissues quality batteries. The same is true with
within the body may have particular humans. It is important when choosing a
Returning to Full Power
energy requirements to function coenzyme Q10 supplement to look for one
– a true life story!
optimally- a good example is muscle manufactured to pharmaceutical
tissue, which has an extremely high energy standards, as this guarantees you get what Mrs Georgina Green, of Burnley. Lancs,
requirement during physical exertion. you pay for. It is also best to look for Q10 was in her 30’s and a successful sales
Without an adequate energy supply, in an oil based capsule. manager in the hectic and stressful
individuals may feel tired and lacking world of IT sales. As time went on,
motivation to undertake physical Georgina became so stressed and
exercise, or even carry out daily tasks, exhausted that she felt she had to give
much the same as our robot up her career. Tired, energy less and
Coenzyme Q10 is a naturally occurring, desperate for help, all she wanted to
vitamin-like substance that plays a key do was sleep all day.
role in the body’s energy supply process. Help came when she read about
Coenzyme Q10 is required to convert Coenzyme Q10 in The Times whilst
sugars and fats from food into energy, in having a cup of tea in a little café.
the form of a specific molecule called Since then, she has taken Coenzyme
ATP (adenosine triphosphate). This process Coenzyme Q10 occurs in two forms; Q10 everyday, and her life has
takes place in specialized structures within oxidised (ubiquinone) and reduced changed, “It transformed me from a
cells called mitochondria. Coenzyme Q10 is (ubiquinol). The normal functioning of Q10 clapped out old vampire into quite
also important as an antioxidant, helping requires the inter-conversion of these forms the dynamo.”
to protect tissues from the damaging within the body. Until recently, coenzyme The last five years of Georgina’s life
effects of free radicals. Q10 supplements were only available in the have been a real result for her; she
oxidised form, which most people are able spent 2 years as a diving instructor in
Recharging to absorb adequately. However, some the Dominican Republic and 3 years as
Some coenzyme Q10 is manufactured people such as the elderly, people with liver a teacher in Rome - all thanks to Q10!
within the body, with the remainder being disease, pancreatic disease, digestive Bio-Quinone Q10 and BioActive Q10
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