We owe our understanding of Ubiquinol, the most bio-active form of Co-Enzyme Q10 (CoQ10) to Dr. Karl Folkers who has painstakingly researched this compound since about 1952. One of his undertakings is now referred to worldwide as THE NETHERLANDS LANDMARK STUDY. In that research, he and some medical doctors examined the possibility that CoQ10 may be of some value in cancer therapy in combination with food factors such as vitamins and minerals. They assembled 32 breast cancer patients, many of them terminally ill despite chemotherapy and radiotherapy protocols. The study employed a protocol which included 90mg of CoQ10 in the diet everyday. No noticeable change occurred in the health status of these women for sometime until one of them unilaterally increased her CoQ10 daily dosage to 360mg. Within three months, this woman became cancer free, to the amazement of the researchers. Another woman followed the footsteps of the first woman and obtained the same results. Many people in the group began to get better results when they increased their daily dosages of CoQ10. This led the researchers to conclude that CoQ10 must have played a significant role in the nutritional therapy that can reverse cancer.
In other studies Dr. Folkers determined that if the CoQ10 level in the heart tissue decreased by about 25percent, heart disease was likely to present. Thus, incases of high blood pressure today 100mg of CoQ10 daily is often prescribed. Other diseases require between 200 and 300mg daily dosages.
Ubiquinol help to produce mitochondria in the cell, be it plant, animal or human. The mitochondrion (singular) is the energy factory inside the cell where energy is produce. Life is energy. The more energy we have, the more alive we are, because, with energy, the cell will be able to efficiently carry out it living processes. A car in which there is no petrol will not start. A factory without electricity supply will close down. Food will get rotten in the refrigerator without electricity. Infections and diseases are rampant in a cell with little or no energy. The more Ubiquinol we have in our bodies, the more the number of mitochondria that will be present in every cell, especially in the heart, where the largest concentration of Ubiquinol is found, the heart being a never-resting, hard working and energy requiring organ. For more information, google Dr Karl Folkers and Ubiquinol research for cancer.