Stoke Your Metabolic Engines with Coenzyme Q10!
In this month’s Endura-e-News we will be exploring how, by supplementing with coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), you can enhance stamina, reduce exercise-induced muscle injury and reduce the damaging effects of exercise-induced oxidative stress. Supplementing with CoQ10 can give you a much needed energy boost and support your athletic performance and recovery. CoQ10's unique benefits to you, as an endurance athlete, are primarily due to two of its proven attributes. Firstly, CoQ10 is necessary for the production of energy within each and every cell of your body. Secondly, CoQ10 functions as a powerful antioxidant.
CoQ10 for Widespread Energy Production
CoQ10 is also called ubiquinone, a name that signifies its ubiquitous (widespread) distribution in the human body. This vitamin-like compound is found in every cell of your body as part of the electron transport chain – the biochemical pathway responsible for producing the energy you need to live, breathe, train and compete. Since CoQ10 plays such a major role in energy production, supplementation may be especially beneficial for athletes.
CoQ10 Possesses Unique Antioxidant Properties
CoQ10 is an important fat-soluble antioxidant that is uniquely able to protect your cells' energy producing powerhouses, known as mitochondria, from exercise-induced free radical damage. The antioxidant properties of CoQ10 are of particular importance in endurance athletes, especially when you consider that endurance training and competition increases oxygen utilisation by 10 to 20 times over the resting state, thus greatly increasing the generation of harmful free radicals. This, justifiably, promotes concern about the greater levels of oxidative damage that endurance athletes may be exposed to. Fortunately, CoQ10 can help reduce this damage.
Benefits of Supplementing with CoQ10
Since most cellular functions are energy-dependent, CoQ10 is essential for the health of all human tissues and organs. Unfortunately, levels of naturally-produced CoQ10 begin to drop in the body from around age 20 and taking some extra CoQ10 could help your energy levels and your athletic performance and endurance. Supplementing with CoQ10 may help you maintain stamina and endurance and assist your post-workout recovery.
CoQ10 Put to the Test!
A recent scientific study put CoQ10 to the tough test of 240 minutes of cycling. Volunteers were given a daily dose of either CoQ10 100 mg, CoQ10 300 mg or placebo for a week leading up to the test. On the day of the test, they were asked to assess their fatigue levels before 240 minutes of cycling, after the 240 minutes, then 3 hours later. This test was repeated in double blind fashion on a monthly basis until all of the individuals had been included in each of the three supplement regimes. The results of this study showed that with physical exertion, CoQ10 reaches its maximum potential for increasing energy levels. Significant increases in energy were seen in all of the participants in the study and this was especially true for the higher dose of CoQ10. These results, and many others like them, indicate that supplementation with CoQ10 may be particularly beneficial for endurance athletes.
Supplement with Endura CoQ10 150
Endura CoQ10 150 is a naturally-sourced, naturally-fermented CoQ10 supplement containing a massive 150 mg dose of CoQ10 in each capsule. You can optimise your athletic performance by optimising cellular energy production with Endura CoQ10 150. By making Endura CoQ10 150 part of your existing supplement regime you may significantly:
- Enhance cellular energy production.
- Reduce the free radical damage caused by exercise-induced oxidative stress.
- Reduce exercise-induced muscle breakdown.
- Boost athletic performance.
- Reduce recovery time.
Supplementing with Endura CoQ10 150 may significantly boost your athletic performance, reduce recovery time and, perhaps most importantly, give you that extra edge in realising your optimal athletic potential. Consider making Endura CoQ10 150 a regular part of your supplement regime today.
