Take Care of Your Heart and Your Brain – My Q10 of Choice the Rest of My Life
I always want to know exactly how large the supplements are before I buy them sight unseen. So I put photos of a typical 500 mg acetaminophen tablet on one side (the white tablet) and an ordinary 325 full sized round aspirin on the other side. The Jarrow 200 mg dark gel capsule is in the middle with a ruler in the background. And the other thing I like to see is the label on the back side of the bottle. They never show it and they never show the size of the pills or capsules in the advertising. They will show anything and talk about everything except this. So this is my main contribution. See the photos below. I've been taking Co-Enzyme Q10 for decades, possibly for well over 25 years. First I'll say this is a very good supplement and I will always continue to take it only in the form of Jarrow Formulas QH-Absorb, 200 mg Softgels. But do not be lulled into thinking it will cure everything about your heart, especially as you get older. In recent years, I started taking the QH version. It's difficult to ever know if the long term benefits are working for you or not. But better safe than sorry is my motto. A few days before Thanksgiving 2016, I had sudden serious pain right in the middle of my chest â€" happened on three different days before the last one got my attention enough to go to the emergency room. The cardiologists thought it was a Heart attack as well, but the enzymes in the blood tests said it wasn't a Heart attack. My personal cardiologist arrived at the hospital and decided to do a cardiac catheterization where dye is injected into the heart's arteries to check for blockages or narrowing of my arteries. He was astonished to see my arteries were, in his words, remarkably clear. I said you mean for my age? No, he replied â€" for any age. No plaque at all. Thanksgiving morning, the pain struck very bad, but the pain migrated downward toward my liver and I immediately knew what it was â€" gallstones stuck in the duct. The pain can feel like it's in your chest, but it's not. I had my gallbladder removed a month later and it was full of stones and sludge and two polyps â€" fortunately benign. I grew up on a cattle ranch. I have no idea how many calves I've eaten, but a lot in my 73 years. I took Lipitor for years, until I learned of its shady past â€" research built upon manipulated data, mainly omissions on purpose. I stopped taking it immediately and strangely, my cholesterol slowly improved. It's the size of LDL that matters. The small balls of LDL are the dangerous ones. The big LDL just bounces off. Small LDL sticks in cracks and crevices or injuries and just keeps sticking more and more. Doctors never test for LDL size. You can get a CRP test, C-Reactive Protein as a potential indication. My CRP has always been below 1.0. Most all my life, my cholesterol and triglycerides were terribly high. Now my total cholesterol is very near the low end of normal including triglycerides. And my diet is still awful â€" the complete opposite of what you'd expect from my blood tests. But what I did do starting about age 50 was to take Vitamin B12, B6 and Folic Acid (B9) in the right combination to prevent plaque from forming. You can search for the recommended balance of these three nutrients online. Just type those three vitamins followed by the word plaque. I've been taking those vitamins for 23 years. And now that I know my arteries are clean, I hope these Jarrow Formulas QH-Absorb, 200 mg Softgels will help keep my heart and my brain going at least a couple more decades. Clean arteries in the heart and carotid arteries usually mean your brain has clean arteries, too. I just had a 3 Tesla MRI of my brain and it all looks good â€" no hint of dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Always insist upon a 3 Tesla strength MRI machine â€" not the 1.5 T versions or worse yet, some old open MRIs that are 0.9 Tesla or worse. Not all MRI machines are even close to being the same
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