What role does Coenzyme Q10 play in the body?

What role does Coenzyme Q10 play in the body?

Coenzyme Q10, otherwise known as CoQ10, is very popular health supplement. Millions of individuals take this supplement on a daily basis. It is a substance which has a very similar structure to some of the water soluble vitamins. CoQ10 is also present in the human body is varying concentrations. What it does in the body is still a puzzle but current laboratory evidence indicates that it may play a role in the production of energy at a cellular level. CoQ10 is found in highest concentration in the liver, brain, kidney, lungs and heart- parts of the body which are associated with high consumption and generation of energy.

However, the levels of CoQ10 are not consistent in all individuals and we still do not know whether it is a substrate or a product during the generation of energy. The alternative health care market has been hyping up the substance as a treatment for many medical disorders. On cyberspace, it appears that CoQ10 is a cure for everything in the medical dictionary. There is no correlation between the levels of CoQ10 and disease. Some people have high levels and have disease; but there are people who have low levels of CoQ10 and have no evidence of a medical disorder. At the moment, CoQ10 is still looking of a disease it can cure