From: Jerry Vonderharr <vonder@netonecom.net>

Subject: Re: Coenzyme Q-10 suppl needed and coagulation?

> From: BethAHolt@aol.com

> Although I work with a fairly low income male population (VA patients) many

> seem to manage to find the money for dietary supplements, but can't scare up

> the funds for vegetables!!

Beth, I agree with you that these people should be putting food first,

buy if they suffer from cardiomyopathy (as the cumadin would suggest)

then co-q10 is certainly a worthwhile nutrient.

CoQ10 was first isolated from beef heart in 1957 by Professor Fred

Cranne at the U of Wisconsin. In 1958 Karl Folkers, a PhD biochemist at

Merck Pharmaceuticals, defined the formula and shortley after that

discovered how to synthesize coQ10. Merck was not interested since they

could not patent the substance, and they sold the technology to Japan,

who currently makes all the CoQ10 used worldwide.

Despite the disinterest from Merck, Folkers new that, like insulin or

antibiotics, he was working with a bonafide medical breakthrough; a

substance that could enhance energy production throughout the body and

thus could prevent and alleviate suffering of many diseases.

Folkers left Merck in the 60's to study CoQ10 fulltime and in 1970 the

FDA granted him a licence to conduct human trials. With research funds

coming exclusively from Japan, Folkers authored or co-authored over

1,000 papers and with over 200 collaborating scientists world-wide.

These studies all showed the same thing: In both subtle and dramatic

ways, it would improve the health of almost all who took it and save

millions of lives. Also, it had no toxicity.

Co-q10 is to congestive heart failure what antibiotics are to

infection. All that is needed is to take enough of the supplement to

elevate the blood levels. There have been 10 international scientific

conferences on CoQ10. Over the last few decades, between 30 and 40

million people (mostly in Japan and Europe) have been studied and/or

treated with CoQ10 with excellent results and no reports of toxicity.

Jerry Vonderharr, DC

Evart Chiropractic Clinic

Michigan