Coenzyme Q10 may slow Parkinson's decline
Coenzyme Q10 is a substance which could be founded in human cell and help transform food into energy. Furthermore, it is a powerful antioxidant.
Meanwhile, some researches show that coenzyme Q10 could also slow Parkinson’s decline. As the reveal of the journal Archives of Neurology, researchers gave Coenzyme Q10 to 80 Parkinson’s patients-and while not everyone benefited, in some the disease slowed by up to 44%.
Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder in which patients develop tremor and muscle stiffness because lack dopamine - a brain chemical.Previous research has come out that mitochondrial function in Parkinson’s patients is damaged. Because the release of dopamine need power, while the power’s release in human body is related to mitochondrial. This research appears little Coebzyme Q10 could be founded in their mitochondriae.It could be suggested that coenzyme Q10 may play a key role in the function of mitochondriase. So the coenzyme Q10 may effectively affect the amount of dopamine in human body.
If so, Q10 could be actually applied to hold back the advance of the disease. However, researcher also said that further research was needed to do to verify the results.
This research was published by the journal Archives of Neurology.