CoQ10 is known to support heart health and healthy aging because of its vital role in cellular energy production.

A research institute in France recently performed a study that indicates CoQ10 in the form of ubiquinol may help reduce certain menopause symptoms.

Approximately 90% of the CoQ10 your body uses is the active form, which is called ubiquinol. The “oxidized” form of CoQ10 is ubiquinone (it’s the type found in most supplements).

Your body must convert ubiquinone to get the ubiquinol it needs, but after age 30, this conversion process becomes less efficient, and continues to become more challenging as we age.

This is the key reason why taking the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 as a supplement is recommended.

In the new French study, 200 women between the ages of 45 and 55 experiencing menopausal symptoms were recruited and asked to take 200mg of Kaneka Ubiquinol daily for 2 months.
After 2 months of taking the supplement, about 80% of the women reported a reduction of menopausal symptoms most notably feeling less stress, irritability and sensitivity.

Other reported benefits included mood and emotional well-being improvements, better sleep and less muscular discomfort.

Most of the women started feeling benefits after 30 days of taking the ubiquinol supplements.

While these results are encouraging and support more research in this area, it should be noted that this was not a placebo-controlled study.

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