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Coenzyme Q10
Topic Overview
What is coenzyme Q10?
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a substance similar to a vitamin. It is found in every cell of the body. Your body makes CoQ10, and your cells use it to produce energy your body needs for cell growth and maintenance. It also functions as an antioxidant, which protects the body from damage caused by harmful molecules. CoQ10 is naturally present in small amounts in a wide variety of foods, but levels are particularly high in organ meats such as heart, liver, and kidney, as well as beef, soy oil, sardines, mackerel, and peanuts.
Coenzymes help enzymes work to digest food and perform other body processes, and they help protect the heart and skeletal muscles.
CoQ10 is available in the United States as a dietary supplement. It is also known as Q10, vitamin Q10, ubiquinone, or ubidecarenone.
What is CoQ10 used for?
Many claims are made about CoQ10. It is said to help heart failure, as well as cancer, muscular dystrophy, and periodontal disease. It is also said to boost energy and speed recovery from exercise. Some people take it to help reduce the effects certain medicines can have on the heart, muscles, and other organs.
Heart failure
If you have heart failure, talk to your doctor before you take any supplement. There's no strong evidence that vitamins or other supplements can help treat heart failure. They are used along with medical heart failure treatments, not instead of treatment.
But you may still hear about CoQ10 supplements and heart failure. CoQ10 has not been shown definitely to relieve heart failure symptoms. Only some of the studies of coenzyme Q10 showed that it helps heart failure symptoms.footnote 1
In 1961, scientists saw that people with cancer had little CoQ10 in their blood. They found low CoQ10 blood levels in people with myeloma, lymphoma, and cancers of the breast, lung, prostate, pancreas, colon, kidney, and head and neck. Some research has suggested that CoQ10 helps the immune system and may be useful as a secondary treatment for cancer.
- CoQ10 may keep the antitumor drug doxorubicin from hurting the heart.
- Three studies examined the use of CoQ10 along with conventional treatment for cancer. The three studies contained a total of 41 women with breast cancer. In each study, the women improved.
But the National Cancer Institute (NCI) rates the strength of the evidence for CoQ10 and cancer as weak.footnote 2
Other claims
Research does not support a helpful effect of CoQ10 in periodontal (gum) disease, muscular dystrophy, or exercise recovery.
Is CoQ10 safe?
Taking 100 mg a day or more of CoQ10 has caused mild insomnia in some people. And research has detected elevated levels of liver enzymes in people taking doses of 300 mg per day for long periods of time. Liver toxicity has not been reported.
Other reported side effects include rashes, nausea, upper abdominal pain, dizziness, sensitivity to light, irritability, headache, heartburn, and fatigue.
Medicines for high cholesterol (statins) and medicines that lower blood sugar cause a decrease of CoQ10 levels and reduce the effects of CoQ10 supplements. CoQ10 can reduce the body's response to the blood thinner (anticoagulant) medicine warfarin (Coumadin) and can decrease insulin requirements in people with diabetes.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate dietary supplements in the same way it regulates medicines. A dietary supplement can be sold with limited or no research on how well it works or on its safety.
Always tell your doctor if you are using a dietary supplement or if you are thinking about combining a dietary supplement with your conventional medical treatment. It may not be safe to forgo your conventional medical treatment and rely only on a dietary supplement. This is especially important for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
When using dietary supplements, keep in mind the following:
- Like conventional medicines, dietary supplements may cause side effects, trigger allergic reactions, or interact with prescription and nonprescription medicines or other supplements you might be taking. A side effect or interaction with another medicine or supplement may make other health conditions worse. Always tell your doctor or pharmacist about all dietary supplements you are taking.
- The way dietary supplements are manufactured may not be standardized. Because of this, how well they work or any side effects they cause may differ among brands or even within different lots of the same brand. The form of supplement that you buy in health food or grocery stores may not be the same as the form used in research.
- Other than for vitamins and minerals, the long-term effects of most dietary supplements are not known.
- Coenzyme Q10 (2006). Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics, 48(1229): 19–20.
- National Cancer Institute (2012). Coenzyme Q10 (PDQ) – Health Professional Version. Available online: http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/coenzymeQ10/healthprofessional.
Other Works Consulted
- Coenzyme Q10 (2006). Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics, 48(1229): 19–20.
- Mischley LK, et al. (2013). Coenzyme Q10. In JE Pizzorno, MT Murray, eds., Textbook of Natural Medicine, 4th ed., pp. 675–684. St. Louis: Mosby.
Current as of: April 9, 2019
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Au Nom de la Rose
18 comments:
- Alain said...
Je connais bien cet endroit. Quand on lève un peu les yeux, on voit des façades assez étranges, et puis, il y a aussi le balcon des chimères.
Pour répondre à ta question, non, je ne me baigne pas encore, mais cela ne saurait tarder.
I know this place. When they raise eyes a bit, they see rather strange facades, and then, there is the balcony of chimeras also.
To answer your question, no, I still do not have a swim, but soon. - March 31, 2012 at 12:31:00 AM CDT
- Shell Sherree said...
It's spectacular, V, and you have such a beautiful eye for such vignettes. Happy weekend to you and Meepsie.
- March 31, 2012 at 2:12:00 AM CDT
- Joe said...
Love the grunge on that old door.
- March 31, 2012 at 3:00:00 AM CDT
- Malyss said...
The old door is giving all its value to the beauty and freshness of flowers!
- March 31, 2012 at 3:22:00 AM CDT
- Cezar and Léia said...
Can almost smell the perfume...
God bless you!
Cezar - March 31, 2012 at 3:59:00 AM CDT
- Vreni said...
I LOVE the old door, the chair and "Au nom de la rose" in general. I´ve passed the shop in Rue Saint-Antoine A LOT of times!
- March 31, 2012 at 7:10:00 AM CDT
- Natalie said...
Love this photo stop very much: Yesterday & Today, beautiful flowers to enjoy for a moment and a weathered door being there for centuries...
Congrats dear Virginia for Girl's Guide in Paris feature!
And you're only one admirer away from 700 ! Yey!!!
Natalie - March 31, 2012 at 9:37:00 AM CDT
- martinealison said...
vraiment charmante cet endroit... La boutique de la fleuriste met en valeur cette belle porte ou... ne serait-ce pas cette belle porte qui mettrait la boutique en valeur?!...
Très belle photo.
Gros bisous à vous et bon week-end. - March 31, 2012 at 11:06:00 AM CDT
- Mary said...
Beautiful! It's dark and dreary here today in Oregon, your photo makes me feel sunny and happy!
- March 31, 2012 at 2:00:00 PM CDT
Lovely vignettes Virginia! Flowers always stop me in my tracks be it in the grocery store, florist shop, or outside. Nothing cheers me up like flowers!
- March 31, 2012 at 2:25:00 PM CDT
- Jack said...
I like the texture of old doors like this one. Nice shot, Virginia.
- March 31, 2012 at 4:51:00 PM CDT
- Virginia said...
Natalie, I"ve been sitting at 699 followers for days. I wonder who will put me over the top! LOL
- March 31, 2012 at 4:51:00 PM CDT
- Alexa said...
I just tried to be # 700 (but it still says 699). Was going to say what Shell said, i.e., there's that eye again. Love this, V! Bon weekend.
- March 31, 2012 at 6:53:00 PM CDT
- Allax said...
I shop here every time I go to Paris - an Ontario friend loves their stuff
- March 31, 2012 at 11:27:00 PM CDT
- Temple said...
Hello Virginia,
I'm quite a fan of your gorgeous photography and your blog. There's a tiny Nom du Rose down the street from 'my' apartment in the 7th. Please take a look-see at my photos of this lovely shop:
I' love what you do ;-)
Temple - April 1, 2012 at 5:07:00 AM CDT
- French Basketeer.com said...
Our chippy USA doors are never quite the same....cote fleur...love this!
- April 1, 2012 at 10:37:00 PM CDT
- Daryl said...
it would have stopped me too
- April 2, 2012 at 7:45:00 AM CDT
- TheChieftess said...
Very Parisienne!!!
- April 3, 2012 at 6:56:00 PM CDT

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G'Day stampers,
Today I am hopping along with the June Stamp 'N Hop Blog Hop.
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You may have arrived from Stacey's blog where I'm sure you would have seen her fantastic project.
I chopped & changed my mind so many times I ended up confusing myself with all the lovely new stuff I could pre-order. In the end I decided to keep it simple & showcase the gorgeous new Magnolia Lane Memories & More Card Pack along with the Magnolia Lane Large Specialty Memories & More Cards & Envelopes. I can see myself using these a lot during the year & are already on my list for re-ordering.
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It was finished with a couple of Pearls to the Card Front.
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Again a small card from the Memories & More Card Pack was adhered onto a piece of Petal Pink Cardstock before adhering it to the centre of the large card. The sentiment was again adhered to a piece of whisper White, cut back to size & adhered to the Card Front with Mini Stampin' Dimenisonals.
It was finished with a couple of Pearls to the Card Front.
For the insides of the cards, a decorative strip from the Card Pack was adhered onto a piece of Whisper White prior to adhering inside the Base Card.
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I fall for puzzles and mysteries. Put a code in front of me, or a series of entirely unrelated clues, and I will sit there for hours if I have to, attempting to solve it. Even if I end up completely uninterested in the product a puzzle is promoting, I generally leap at the chance to make sense out of vague patterns.
So, me being me, this untitled teaser trailer is the proverbial catnip. If I had all day to mull over the cuneiform-like symbols that flash on screen, the binary codes that march across the background, or the Braille-like ticker that marches across the bottom, I'd be sitting here until the wee small hours of the morning happily deciphering all sorts of irrelevance.
So. I have no idea what game this video from GameTrailers is promoting. (And sadly, the game itself is unlikely to focus on the unravelling of codes. So few do!) I have no idea if I will like the game, which seems in some sense to be a shooter, once I do know what it is. But I know that a video like this is designed for people like me… and that there's a weekend just about to start, with time for someone to make sense of it.
Editor's note: This blog appears related.
Debut Teaser: Mystery Game [GameTrailers]


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(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.)
On this date in 1896, Amelia Elizabeth Dyer was hanged at Newgate Prison in London. At 58 years old, she was the oldest woman hung in Great Britain between 1844 and 1955.
Amelia was a baby farmer, one of many from that time and place. Baby farmers would, for a fee, take an infant or toddler if its mother was unable or unwilling to care for it. The idea was that the baby farmer would either become the baby's foster parent, or find someone else to foster or adopt the child.
In the days when illegitimacy carried a heavy social stigma, this was an attractive option — indeed, often the only option — for single or impoverished mothers, and likewise for communities facing the burden of an orphaned newborn. Young Oliver in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist grew up on a baby farm after his mother died in childbirth and his father disappeared.
In many cases, everyone benefited from the transaction: the mother would go back to her life knowing her baby was all right, a childless couple would have a baby to love, and the baby itself would grow up in a secure home.
Unhappily, however, many other cases produced horrendous results: the baby was not necessarily safe once the mother had handed it over and paid money in advance for its care. Unscrupulous and greedy women realized that, once they got the lump sum payment, they could make a profit if the baby died, the sooner the better.
Victorian Britain was rife with baby farmers who would quietly do away with their helpless charges, or simply starve and neglect the infants until they expired. Authorities made unavailing, ill-enforced attempts to control the problem by, for example, requiring women who adopted or fostered more than one infant at a time to register. (And by doling out a few sporadic, but high-profile, executions.)
It was a widespread and well-known problem, as Alison Rattle and Allison Vale note in their biography, Amelia Dyer: Angel Maker:
It was impossible for newspapers of the day to keep count of the numbers of bodies found strewn about the towns and cities. Scarcely a day passed without yet another report of the corpse of some young innocent being found abandoned beneath the seat of a railway carriage, under an archway, in a sewer grating or just carelessly dumped in one of the open spaces of a city suburb. Many cases were not even reported …
Amelia Dyer was the worst of the worst.
She was convicted of a single murder, but they'd found the bodies of half a dozen more, and by the time she was caught she'd been operating for for twenty years or more. Her victims may well have numbered in the hundreds, making her a mass killer of Harold Shipman-like proportions.
Amelia was born in Bristol to a respectable working-class family. Unlike most children of the time, she was able to attend school until age fourteen, and her four siblings. But there was tragedy in her family: her mother went insane (apparently brain-damaged by the effects of typhus), and died when Amelia was eleven years old.
In 1861, at age 24, Amelia married George Thomas, a 57-year-old widower. They had a daughter together before his death in 1869. Three years later, she married William Dyer and they had a daughter and a son, as well as several children who didn't survive infancy. Eventually she left him.
She was a qualified nurse and did work in that field off and on for several years, but for most of her life after her first husband's death, her primary occupation was baby farming. At first, Amelia acted only as an intermediary, taking babies from their mothers for a fee and, for another fee, handing them over to other baby farmers who, often as not, let them die. She also kept pregnant women in her home and nursed them until delivery, and the newborns were reported stillborn as often as they survived.
It isn't known just when she started murdering the infants herself, but by 1879 she came to the attention of the authorities: four nurse-children in her care had died within two weeks of each other.
They wanted to get her for manslaughter, but there was insufficient evidence. Amelia was found guilty of criminal neglect and served the maximum, six months at hard labor. She tried to go straight, working a variety of low-paying jobs.
Inevitably, however, she returned to what she was best at.
She had learned an important lesson from her previous brush with the law: don't bring in a doctor to sign the death certificate, don't leave a paper trail. Instead, she started disposing of the bodies herself.
Like her colleagues she put out notices in the newspapers, advertising herself as a respectable married woman who wanted to adopt or foster a baby in exchange for money. Sometimes there was an understanding that the mother would be permitted to visit the child, or take it back once she was in a position to care for it.
However, a mother usually never saw either Amelia or child again after handing over her infant.
Amelia kept herself constantly on the move and used a number of alias names to avoid attention. At times she was receiving as many as six babies a day. Her youngest daughter, Polly, grew up helping her mother take care of the babies; for her, it was a way of life.
When she married and moved away from home, she and her husband, Arthur Palmer, ultimately set themselves up as baby farmers too, sometimes working alongside Amelia. The Palmers habitually neglected and abandoned their charges, and at least two of their babies died.
Amelia started showing signs of mental illness after her release from prison: she had violent fits, claimed to hear voices, made at least one serious suicide attempt and ultimately was admitted four times to three different asylums. Her mental illness may have genuine, possibly caused or exacerbated by her substance abuse (she was addicted to both laudanum and alcohol), or she may have been malingering: her breakdowns tended to happen after the authorities or parents seeking to reclaim their babies started poking their noses around in her business.
The end came on March 30, 1896, when a bargeman pulled the body of fifteen-month-old Helena Fry out of the River Thames. She'd been strangled with dressmaking tape, which was still tied around her neck. When the police closely examined the paper she was wrapped in, they were able to make out an address: 26 Piggotts Road, Reading.
When the authorities searched that home, they found numerous items of interest including more dressmaking tape, piles of baby clothes and pawn tickets for more clothes, and letters from mothers asking about their children. The house reeked of human decomposition.
The police set up a sting to catch Dyer, using a young woman to act as a decoy. But on April 4, the day they were supposed to meet to talk business, she found herself arrested instead and charged with the murder of Helena Fry. Shortly thereafter, her daughter and son-in-law, Arthur and Polly Palmer, were charged as accessories.
Investigators dragged the Thames and found four more bodies, three boys and one girl. All of them had white dressmaking tape knotted around their throats. Two of the victims were later identified as Harry Simmons, thirteen months, and Doris Marmon, four months. They had been killed only a few days before Amelia's arrest, stuffed into a carpetbag together and thrown off a dock. Later, two more bodies turned up: another girl and another boy.
The investigation determined that at least 20 children had been given over to Amelia Dyer's care in the few months prior to her being caught. During the previous year, between thirty and forty bodies had been pulled from the Thames. Almost all of them were of infants and authorities suspected most of the deaths were the work of one person.
Within a few days, Amelia had confessed everything, but denied that Polly and Arthur had any guilty knowledge of the murders, and the Palmers also maintained their innocence. Amelia confirmed that she'd dumped most of the babies' bodies in the river. "You'll know mine," she said, "by the tape around their necks."
The charges against Arthur Palmer were dropped for lack of evidence just before Amelia went to trial. Polly, anxious to save herself, became the main witness against her mother and claimed she had had no inkling of the murders of Doris Harmon and Harry Simmons, although they'd been killed in her house within a day of each other and she'd been present at the time. Her statements were contradicted by other witnesses.
Amelia was first tried for the murder of little Doris; the idea was that if she was acquitted, they could try her in the other cases one by one. She pleaded insanity, emphasizing her own mother's madness and her own stays in insane asylums — but two of the three doctors who examined Amelia did not believe she was mentally unsound.
The jury deliberated four and a half minutes before finding her guilty.
Polly's trial was supposed to take place on June 16, and her mother was summonsed to testify, in spite of the fact that she was due to be executed a week beforehand. Amelia appears to have really loved her daughter and was focused solely on saving her from suffering the same fate. In a letter she wrote on June 5, she said,
I was glad to see her looking so well dear child. God only knows how grieved I am to know she is suffering for no fault of her own. She did nothing, she knew nothing.
If only Amelia's concern for her own child had extended to other people's, too.
On the eve of her mother's execution, the case against Polly was dropped. Amelia expressed great relief about this in her final letter to her daughter. But Polly and Arthur didn't give up baby farming and in 1898 they were caught after they abandoned a (living) baby girl on a train.
On the scaffold, when asked for a last statement, Amelia answered, "I have nothing to say." She was hanged at 9:00 a.m.
In the aftermath of her trial and execution, Parliament enacted more laws in order to protect helpless infants from suffering the same fate as Amelia's nurse-children. Nevertheless, during the next ten years, three more baby farmers would suffer the ultimate penalty for infanticide.
On this day..
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- 1902: Hirsh Lekert, Jewish assassin - 2014
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- 1876: Kenneth Brown, father of Edith Cowan - 2011
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- 1358: Guillaume Cale, leader of the Jacquerie - 2008


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Confederate flag controversery still unsettled in Haywood
Haywood County temporarily backed off its hard-line stance against tiny Confederate flags being stuck in the ground around the base of a memorial for Confederate soldiers on the lawn of the historic courthouse in Waynesville, but has once again started removing the flags.
After getting a complaint about the divisive symbol being placed on the courthouse lawn by Confederate supporters, the county decided to remove the tiny flags. That didn't last long, however.
The county immediately got pushback from Confederate supporters, who claim the flag is a symbol of their heritage and honors their ancestors who fought for the South. Several of them staged a protest outside the courthouse last week and have upped their game — placing a full-size Confederate flag pole on the lawn instead of the six-inch-high toothpick variety they had been sticking in the ground before.
County leaders then decided to let the flags stay, given the absence of a formal policy on what can and cannot be placed on the courthouse lawn by outside groups.
After a week of allowing the flags until a policy could be researched and adopted, the county changed its position and decided that it would instead remove the flags in the absence of a policy. This also means that the tiny American flags stuck in the ground around the other war memorials on the courthouse lawn have to go as well.
In the meantime, those who are offended by the Confederate flag as a symbol often associated with racism and slavery have expressed their views to the county.
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"Nearly every symbol, flag and banner can be placed in a historical context in an attempt to justify the placement of same on public, government property. There is no doubt that a great number of our citizens find that the flying of this particular symbol on government property is offensive," reads a letter delivered to Haywood County commissioners last Friday and signed by 20 local residents. "This is a symbol that divides our citizens and continues to harm our ability to heal past wrongs."
Commissioners also received letters pleading to allow the flag.
"Those that vilify Confederate monuments and symbols are very confused about the history of the War Between the States and have jumped on the bandwagon to spread falsehoods and fear. In no way do these symbols represent hate or violence," according to a letter from Kip Rollins, a Haywood residents and leader within the Southern Historical and Heritage Preservation Society.