A friend once asked such a question: which disease has the greatest impact on health? The maintenance of life activities requires the cooperation of various organs, and the heart, brain, kidney and other organs perform their respective duties. Irreversible damage to any link may end life. But we can think from another angle. If the incidence of a disease is very high, it will bring the largest number of deaths without intervention, which may have the greatest impact on health. So the answer to this question is clear: cardiovascular disease. As the engine of the human body, the heart can't produce energy, but it is a very important part of energy supply. All kinds of life activities need the participation of oxygen, and the heart controls the transportation of blood and oxygen. Due to the obstacle of blood supply and oxygen supply, patients with cardiovascular diseases can slowly fail in all organs of the body. Therefore, a healthy heart is an important guarantee for health and longevity.
In recent years, with the change of lifestyle, heart-related health problems have become increasingly prominent, and bad habits such as staying up late, smoking and drinking will damage the heart; Risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia can also damage the heart. On the one hand, these bad habits and risk factors will aggravate coronary artery stenosis and increase the risk of myocardial infarction; On the one hand, it will increase the damage of myocardial cells and increase the risk of heart failure. If you don't intervene, cardiovascular diseases can be aggravated progressively, and more importantly, the serious damage of coronary artery and myocardial cells is irreversible. What we can do is to prevent the damage of coronary artery and myocardial cells, so the key to prevent myocardial infarction and heart failure lies in early and reasonable intervention, in which coenzyme Q 10 has positive value in the intervention of heart disease.
Coenzyme Q 10 has two important functions: one is to increase the utilization rate of energy; Second, it has antioxidant effect. The root cause of myocardial infarction lies in myocardial ischemia and hypoxia and insufficient energy supply. Although coenzyme Q 10 can not fundamentally solve the problem of myocardial energy supply, as an energy conversion agent, it can increase the utilization efficiency of oxygen in myocardium, thus adding a little vitality to damaged myocardium. At the same time, coenzyme Q 10 can delay atherosclerosis, which is the main pathological change of myocardial infarction, so coenzyme Q 10 is beneficial to patients with myocardial ischemia. The antioxidant effect of coenzyme Q 10 should also be energy-related. Oxygen participates in life activities, but it also produces oxygen free radicals, which are harmful to myocardial cells. Coenzyme Q 10 has the function of scavenging oxygen free radicals, so it has the function of relieving and protecting the heart. For heart failure, related studies have found that the level of coenzyme Q 10 is negatively correlated with the severity of heart failure, and supplementing coenzyme Q 10 can improve the prognosis.
Therefore, coenzyme Q 10 is beneficial to the heart. Of course, the human body has a certain amount of coenzyme Q 10, which can meet our needs. However, with the increase of age, the supply of coenzyme Q 10 is in short supply, because the content of coenzyme Q 10 gradually decreases from the age of 20 to 25, and its protective effect on human body begins to weaken. On the contrary, with the increase of age, various chronic injuries gradually accumulate, and our heart should be protected by application, including increasing the intake of exogenous coenzyme Q 10. Coenzyme Q 10 exists in many foods, but its content is limited. Common dietary structure can only provide about 5mg of coenzyme Q 10 every day. At present, the recommended intake of coenzyme Q 10 in China is still inconclusive, taking 30-60mg as a reference. Compared with the reference intake, the food-borne coenzyme Q 10 is far from the human requirement.
Coenzyme Q 10 is distributed in various organs and tissues of human body, and the content is the highest in the heart, and the heart coenzyme Q 10 decreases most obviously with age, especially in the middle-aged and elderly people. Even though coenzyme Q 10 can be ingested through food, its absorption from food is limited, and it needs to be metabolized by human body and converted into reduced coenzyme Q65438. However, the metabolic ability of middle-aged and elderly people decreased, and the ability to convert coenzyme Q 10 gradually decreased. Therefore, the gap between supply and demand of coenzyme Q 10 for middle-aged and elderly people is further widened, and coenzyme Q 10 preparation can be supplemented appropriately. Of course, different people have different requirements for coenzyme Q 10, and the specific intake has not been determined. Related research shows that for patients with cardiovascular diseases, taking 150-200mg coenzyme Q 10 daily can effectively protect the heart or further reduce the injury. However, if it is reduced coenzyme Q 10, metabolic transformation is not needed.
It should be noted that the intervention of cardiovascular diseases should treat both the symptoms and the root causes. Although coenzyme Q 10 is beneficial to the heart, it is only symptomatic treatment for patients with cardiovascular diseases and does not remove the primary factors of cardiovascular damage. That is to say, coenzyme Q 10 plays the role of adjuvant therapy. Although its value in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases cannot be denied, cardiovascular diseases need to be treated at the same time, including various bad living habits and cardiovascular risk factors. In drug treatment, patients with cardiovascular diseases should pay more attention to the long-term application of drugs such as improving prognosis and delaying illness. For example, patients with myocardial infarction should take drugs such as ACEI and beta blockers for a long time, and patients with heart failure should take drugs such as ACEI/ARB/ARNI and beta blockers for a long time to reduce the risk of death. Of course, for patients without cardiovascular disease, taking coenzyme Q 10, combined with lifestyle and basic diseases, can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
To sum up, coenzyme Q 10 can increase the energy utilization rate, and at the same time, it has antioxidant effect, which can improve the energy supply of myocardium and reduce the damage of oxygen free radicals to myocardium, so it has a positive effect on protecting the heart. However, with the increase of age, the content of coenzyme Q 10 in human body will decrease, so the protective effect on human body will be weakened, especially the heart is the organ with the highest content of coenzyme Q 10. Moreover, the cardiac coenzyme Q 10 of middle-aged and elderly people has obviously decreased, so it is necessary to supplement exogenous coenzyme Q 10. The specific intake is still inconclusive. The general population generally takes 30-60 mg, and patients with cardiovascular diseases take 150-200 mg every day. However, the coenzyme Q 10 from food sources is limited, which is far from meeting the corresponding demand, and coenzyme Q6544 can be increased. Coenzyme Q 10 exists in two forms, one is oxidized and the other is reduced. The former needs to be transformed into the latter to be better utilized. If reduced coenzyme Q 10 is supplemented, patients with cardiovascular diseases can take 100- 150 mg daily. However, for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, unhealthy lifestyles such as staying up late and staying up late need to be intervened at the same time.
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