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IV Vitamin Injections: What Is CoQ10?

We all need vitamins and nutrients to live healthily and do the things we need to or enjoy doing. Fruits, vegetables, and other foods are a good and obvious source of vitamins, but some people may choose another route – IV vitamin injections. One kind growing in popularity relates to CoQ10.

What Are Vitamin Injections?

Vitamin injections are just what they sound like. Instead of getting vitamins naturally, you can also see your healthcare provider or a licensed, specialized clinic to have a vitamin cocktail injected into your bloodstream. The key benefit is the nutrients are provided directly into your bloodstream, completely avoiding the digestive processes linked to converting food to energy.

Symptoms of Vitamin Deficiency

For many people, a healthy diet and lifestyle result in generally good health. Your body gets all the vitamins and nutrients it needs, but what if it doesn’t? Here are signs of vitamin deficiency to watch for.

  • Fragile hair and nails
  • Lesions inside your mouth or outside it at the corners
  • Your gums may bleed
  • You have trouble seeing at night, and there may be white growth spots on your eyes
  • Scaly patches of skin and dandruff
  • Hair loss
  • You may notice goosebump-like bumps on your arms, buttocks, cheeks, or thighs
  • You may experience restless legs syndrome

What Are Antioxidants?

CoQ10, an antioxidant, plays a huge role in keeping us healthy – constantly waging a silent war against cellular invaders and other substances in our bodies that would do us harm. Antioxidants are substances in the body, numbering in the thousands, which protect our cells and genetic material from being harmed by infections, other threats, and chemicals called free radicals. Our bodies generate free radicals naturally when turning food into energy, but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. In the case of free radicals, too many can lead to oxidative stress and other things that vitamins and minerals and antioxidants like CoQ10 defend against.

But don’t let the phrase antioxidant fool you. According to the experts at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “It is really a chemical property, namely, the ability to act as an electron donor.” Getting more antioxidants like CoQ10 is essential, and one way to do that is through IV vitamin injections.

CoQ10 and Vitamin Injections

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is an antioxidant that our bodies produce naturally. It’s something that our cells use for growth and maintenance. But as we age, levels of CoQ10 in our bodies start to go down. Low levels have also been observed in people with certain ailments, like heart disease, and in people who use a cholesterol-lowering medication called statins. While it’s found in meat, fish, and nuts, that quantity isn’t measurably significant enough to boost CoQ10 levels in your body. This leads to IV vitamin injections.

What happens if your CoQ10 levels drop?

As you get older, CoQ10 deficiency can lead to problems with:

  • Balance and coordination 
  • Seizures
  • Cognitive problems
  • Bad muscle tone
  • Spontaneous muscle contractions
  • Advanced muscle stiffness
  • Irregular eye movements
  • Vision loss due to issues with the optic nerves
  • Hearing loss because of diseases of the inner ear

Many of these problems worsen unless you’re treated with coenzyme Q10 injections or vitamin supplements.

What conditions can CoQ10 possibly help with?

  • Heart conditions, including congestive heart failure.
  • CoQ10 may help lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and cumulative cholesterol levels in those with diabetes, reducing their chance of heart disease.
  • Parkinson’s disease.
  • Statin-induced myopathy.
  • CoQ10 was shown in one test to prevent migraines, compared to patients who only received a placebo.
  • Physical performance. A study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that CoQ10 may improve aerobic power, anaerobic threshold, how you do when exercising, and how recovery proceeds in trained athletes and untrained individuals after exercising.

Are there any side effects?

Possible side effects of too much CoQ10 may include:

  • You experience upper abdominal discomfort
  • You don’t feel like you must eat as much
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • You have diarrhea and bowel problems
  • Headaches and dizziness
  • You may have trouble sleeping or falling asleep
  • Tiredness
  • Itchy skin or rashes
  • You could be easily agitated or irritated

If you think you’re experiencing vitamin deficiency or are susceptible to colds or infections, CoQ10 injections may be one option. But other kinds of treatment like ketamine therapy can be useful, too, for symptoms like tiredness and headaches, so ask your healthcare provider which option is best for you based on your health.

 

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