CoQ10 and High Colesterol

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I was thinking today. Since I no longer smoke cigarettes, and no longer have to take asthma medication that maybe I could start taking CoQ10 again. When I tried to take it before it caused me to have heart palpitations. But it also gave me a wham of energy!

Then that made me remeber some thing from when I was researching it for Mac (he's on a steady dose of 200mg per day now). Once thing that I found was that CoQ10 diminishes with age and that it's something that your body produces naturally. A young person's body creates the full needed amount, but as we get older, we start to become deficient.

Another thing that I learned is that one of the benefits of CoQ10 is that it give the muscles the energy they need in order to function. And then my mind started to travel to when I went to the doctor and he told me that I have very high cholesterol.

He was so worried that he had me immediately drive to the office and get cholesterol lowering drugs. And when that happened, it reminded me of something else that I had read about CoQ10 and cholesterol lowering drugs. Apparently the ingredient that acts as a binder to remove cholesterol also binds CoQ10, which is why many people who take these types of drugs, have to change them or quit taking them completely. The symptoms being severe muscle pain. And since the heart is a muscle, this is in my opinion a very very serious issue. And the cause of the muscle pain in this instance, in my assertion is the lack of CoQ10.

Here in America, our doctors do not put these two things together, but in other countries they do. When a cholesterol lowering drug is prescribed so is a Coq10 supplement. So when my doctor put me on my medication I immediate got myself some CoQ10. And you know, when I took it together with the cholesterol lowering drug, I did not get the heart palpitations. (Which to me was more confirmation that cholesterol lowering drugs do indeed deplete our reserves of CoQ10)

Ok....now after ALLLLL of that, here's my new thought. If cholesterol lowering drugs bind to the same "whatevers" that CoQ10 do, might it be possible that by increasing the dose of CoQ10 may indeed us up the "whatevers" so that they are not available for the cholesterol to bind to?

I'm so scientific aren't I? LMAO I don't know what things are called, but I'm wondering, I think this might make sense! I haven't researched any of this, just putting 2 and 2 together in my mixed up melon, but maybe one day I may look into it and see if there's any possibility.

I took a 30mg CoQ10 today. We'll see if I can handle it without palpitations. :o)

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