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FEATURECOQ10
CARRY ON
fishing...
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teve Negus, an Thus, coenzyme Q10 supplementation undoubtedly, save many lives, but it is
ardent fisherman from may offer an alternative to estimated that between 0.5% to 2.3%
Newbury, goes to stopping treatment with these of patients taking statins experience
Findhorn in Scotland each year vital drugs.” unpleasant side effects such as muscle
to fish. He had been taking statins An estimated 3.4 million weakness and pain.
for a year, when he began to people in the UK take New research* published in the
experience such debilitating muscle cholesterol lowering drugs American Journal of Cardiology
weakness that he could not cast his rod (statins), prescribed by suggests that a simple
or even hold a cup of tea. He was their GP. Statins, vitamin-like supplement
dismayed to think he may have to give up may alleviate symptoms.
his favourite sport. Statins effectively
”I had terrible pain in my muscles block the synthesis
and joints, says Steve. ”And when of chole sterol, but
handed a cup of tea, I would almost at the same time it is
drop it. Someone on a fishing trip thought that they may
mentioned it might be the statins disrupt the body’s
causing my muscle weakness, so I decided natural production of co-
to stop taking them. Within three weeks enzyme Q10. CoQ10 is an
my symptoms had vanished,” says Steve. important nutrient found in each
”I’m going to talk to my GP and see if cell of the human body. If it is
there’s another solution.” lacking, the body’s most
Dr. Guiseppe Caso from the Cardiology important source of cellular
Division, at Stony Brook University, New energy is depleted, and it is
York who led the recent study into the possible that some medical
effect of coenzyme Q10 on myopathic conditions may be aggravated or that
symptoms in patients treated with statins muscle weakness may occur.
comments, “results suggest that coenzyme
Q10 supplementation may decrease muscle * The American Journal of Cardiology :
pain associated with statin treatment. Effect of Coenzyme Q10 on
Myopathic Symptoms in Patients
Treated With Statins, Volume 99,
Issue 10, 15 May 2007, Pages 1409-1412
Giuseppe Caso, Patricia Kelly, Margaret
A. McNurlan and William E. Lawson
22 GOHEALTHYNOV/DEC2008 READ THIS & PREVIOUS EDITIONS ONLINE AT WWW.GOHEALTHYMAG.CO.UK
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