This perfect pair can prevent the deadliest heart problems
Dear Reader,
Why are we adding the prefix “co” to everything now?
It’s not an office anymore, it’s a “co-working space.” You don’t have a roommate, you’re “co-habitating.”
What’s next? Are we gonna call a dinner date “co-eating?”
But there’s one “co” you NEED to know — and if it becomes the next big buzzword, maybe all of this nonsense will have been worth it.
It’s a “co-enzyme” – a compound that partners up with an enzyme to help it work better.
There’s one coenzyme that’s a superstar, and that’s coenzyme Q10, or CoQ10 for short.
The latest research shows how CoQ10 can give your heart the squeeze it needs to keep making juice.
It could even SAVE your LIFE!
In its “co-working space” (a.k.a. your body), CoQ10 works particularly well with the trace mineral selenium.
Get both daily, and you can protect your heart from today’s top killer.
The new study followed up on hundreds of healthy seniors who had been given either 200 milligrams of CoQ10 plus 200 micrograms of selenium or a placebo daily.
After four years, the study ended, and they all went their separate ways. Maybe they even forgot about all of those funny little pills they’d gobbled day after day after day as part of the experiment.
But the cells deep inside the body didn’t forget. Not the ones that were co-living with the aftereffects of CoQ10 and selenium, anyway.
They coopted the nutrients and put them to use.
They not only had a lower risk of death from heart problems in the year or so following the study, but for years and years after that, too!
At a little more than five years – one year after the study ended – the folks who got the combo pill had less than half the risk of death from heart problems when compared to folks who got a placebo.
That’s where the new study comes in. It checked in on them again at 12 years, or EIGHT YEARS after the original study ended.
And the benefits lasted!
They STILL had a 41 percent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.
That’s amazing by any standard, but doubly so when you consider that they were no longer given the vitamins as part of the study.
For all we know, they never so much as touched another pill, but they STILL got the benefits from those four years of supplementation.
I wouldn’t stop at four years. Keep going, and don’t stop at just CoQ10, either.
You need both.
CoQ10 fights off damaging free radicals, reversing the effects of aging in your body – including in your heart. More importantly, it converts the fat and carbohydrates you eat into the energy that keeps your heart pumping and brain buzzing.
Selenium is no slouch, either. It’s an essential trace mineral that beats back oxidative stress… fights cancer… and seems to enhance the activity of other nutrients.
These two are terrific on their own, and they’re clearly even better when taken together.
Make sure you get the right kind of CoQ10 so you don’t miss out on some of its best benefits. Look for one that includes both ubiquinone and ubiquinol in the same formula.
In Your Corner,
Dr. Allan Spreen
