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From: werner@aecom.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: What are some of these new pills?
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Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 16:34:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 16:34:07 1985
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Keywords: Superoxide Dismutase, Ubiquinone

> Can anyone give me some information about any of the following
> substances?  I've seen ads for some of them and heard vague
> promises about others, does anyone have any real info?
> 
> 	1) Coenzyme Q-10
	Also known as CoenzymeQ (the 10 refers to a chain length of a tail, 
which is actually variable. It is also called Ubiquinone - since it is a
Quinone - and it is ubiquitous in nature.  It is the first step in the electron
transport chain in all cells - plant or animal or bacteria, and hence essential
for all energy utilization.  Since everything you eat is either plant or
animal, your diet is chock full of it, so to use a supplement is of dubious
value at best,  but it is all the rage for food faddists....


> 	4) Superoxide Dismutase
	This converts Superoxide radicals (the fiendish Free Radicals that will
age you, cause all known diseases, including cancer, and lose the war for the
Allies) into Hydrogen Peroxide, which is then converted by Catalase to harmless
water.  It is incidentally needed by the Immune system (Neutrophils) but it
is produced endogenously, and besides, as a protein, would never make it past
the stomach anyway if taken by mouth.

	The other two - I never heard of, either.
> 
> I mean, what ARE these things?
> 							Roy
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				Craig Werner
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