I have been taking CoQ10 for almost 30 years.
It boosts your immune system. When we are young, our bodies make CoQ10 from the food we eat. As we reach our 30's, our bodies don't make it as efficiently anymore and by the time we reach 60 or so, our bodies stop making it at all.
CoQ10 has been used for many years in Japan. Pretty much everyone over 30 takes it. They extract it from seaweed- that is how I found out about it long ago-
A friend's podiatrist son, living in Alaska, contracted with a Japanese pharmaceutical company to raise seaweed (for CoQ10) in quonset huts... as a way to supplement himself in his off season. He sent me some literature on it.
I took the literature to my physician and asked him to look at it in his spare time.
He called me back and said, "Not only am I going to take CoQ10, I am going to have my staff and all my senior patients take it."
In subsequent years, I have suggested that a few I know might talk to their doctors/ dentists about possibly taking it. In every case, the physician, dentist or periodontist included it in the person's treatment- including for my brother, who was waiting for what would be a successful a heart transplant.
It is my understanding that CoQ 10 is water soluble, so whatever your body does not use, flushes away. In general, there is not a danger of toxic buildup.
In 30 years I have never had a problem.
I now take a newer improved form- Ubiquinol CoQ 10- it is more efficiently assimilated.
Talk to your Doctors- see what they say.
