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I've not read Neils post fully but 5 years ago I was given a year to live (for those who haven't heard this old chestnut) when a hole was discovered in my heart due to a birth defect.

I did a lot of research into what I could do to try and strengthen my heart which was 20% functional and CoQ10 was one of the things I found. It is stored primarily in your gums and heart due to them being made of the same tissue, the only 2 parts of the body which are. If you brush your teeth and your gums bleed this can be a sign of CoQ10 deficiency, if the gums are deficient so will the heart be.

I stacked it with EFA's to help prevent arterial clogging and odourless garlic capsules to thin my blood so it was easier for my heart to pump.

I am still using EFA's and CoQ10 5 years later after them deciding 7 months after diagnosis my heart had gone up to 40% efficiency and could handle the operation giving me a 75% survival chance. The op went well and 4 years after my op my heart has returned to near normal function albeit with a titanium aorta. This is with me still using small amounts of anabolics (no androgens bcos they interact with my warfarin) and a little GH now and again, the doctors told me they didn't think it would be wise for me to train again but now they have told me "Whatever it is you are doing, keep doing it because the transformation in your heart is miraculous. We never expected you to recover to this degree and we don't know why or how you have"

My cardiologist addmitted the UK is 10 years behind America and Japan and the Japs are big into CoQ10, thats where I discovered it could help me. I truly believe with the pitfalls of modern life our diets are ALL deficient in something as food is tampered with too much by man and things like EFA'S CoQ10 and various other things can help redress the balance of our modern diets.