Q10, also known as ubiquinone-10, coq10 or coenzyme Q10, is a substance that is both produced in the body and absorbed through food. Its biological function is to convert energy from food into the body's own energy. The organs with the highest energy requirements - especially the heart, liver and lungs - have the highest concentration of Q10. A lack of Q10 leads to a significantly reduced energy level and a weakened immune system. The vital coenzyme plays a particularly important role for the body's cells.

Your body is able to produce Q10 itself. However, the body's own production decreases after the age of 30. In the case of an unbalanced diet, stress, tobacco and alcohol consumption and with increasing age, an additional supply of the essential vitaminoid is therefore recommended. A study with 220 test subjects who had regularly taken Nobilin Q10 Multivitamin for six months, was even able to prove that additional supplementation with coenzyme Q10 is useful for an active lifestyle, even with a balanced diet.

The general recommendation is for healthy people to take 30 to 100 milligrams of Q10 daily and for special needs to take up to 100 mg of the bioactive Q10 form QH. The aim of this Q10 supplement is to prevent a drop in Q10 levels in all body tissues - especially in the heart muscle and brain - from the age of 40.

Q10 Mono 100 mg is particularly suitable for supplementing multivitamin products without coenzyme Q10. If you already use a multivitamin product such as Nobilin Q10 Multivitamin and want to add coenzyme Q10 to your nutritional supplement, you have come to the right place. Of course, our product also supports you if you want to improve your Q10 supply independently of other nutritional supplements. Q10 Mono 100 mg contains 100 milligrams of high-quality natural Q10 in soft gel capsules for daily intake as a dietary supplement. For particularly good absorption, the ingredients are dissolved in oil and are easy to swallow in the soft gel capsule.

Good to know : A Q10 supplement is especially useful for people over 40 , because the production of Q10 in the body deteriorates with age .

If you take cholesterol-lowering drugs, so-called statins, you should also take additional Q10, according to the recommendation of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association. This is because statins inhibit the body's own Q10 production.

Our body needs energy to live. It absorbs most of it through food and drink. In each of our cells, mitochondria work like small power plants to convert the nutrients we take in with food into the universal energy carrier ATP (adenosine triphosphate). Coenzyme Q10 plays a key role in this process, known as oxidative phosphorylation. Q10 is considered a vitaminoid because it is structurally related to vitamin K and vitamin E. The reduced, phenolic form is called ubihydroquinone or ubiquinol (QH _{2 for short).} and is the active Q10 form.

Organs such as the heart and lungs, which require a lot of energy, have a particularly high concentration of Q10. The body can produce the coenzyme itself. However, production decreases after the age of 30. A balanced diet serves as an external source for Q10 intake. Fish, meat, pulses, nuts, vegetable oils and vegetables such as cabbage, spinach and broccoli are particularly rich in Q10.

If the body does not have enough Q10 available, it cannot produce enough energy in the form of ATP. In addition, a lack of the coenzyme increases the proliferation of free radicals and thus leads to oxidative stress. An important task of our immune system is to protect us from these free radicals, which can be released by environmental influences, stress, medication, cigarettes, alcohol, but also by competitive sports. By binding them in the body, antioxidants protect against free radicals.

Coenzymes are low-molecular, non-protein components of enzymes. The word goes back to the Latin cum ( together, with ). The complex organic molecules (vitamins, nucleotides) are usually only loosely or temporarily bound to the protein portion of the enzyme (apoenzyme). Many enzymes are only active in the presence of coenzymes. Coenzyme Q10 was first isolated from cattle hearts in 1957 by Fred L. Crane. One year later, Karl August Folkers was able to decipher the chemical structure of Q10. The health benefits of the coenzyme were soon recognized in Japan in particular. Q10 was manufactured industrially there and approved as a drug for the treatment of heart failure as early as 1974. Today, the Japanese company "Kaneka" is the market leader in the production and distribution of ubiquinol. Ubiquinol is the active form of coenzyme Q10, also known as ubiquinone or coq10.