CoQ10 Neither a Vitamin Nor Drug
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Coenzyme Q10 is not a vitamin, it's actually made by your body and so it doesn't need to be absorbed from your diet like other true vitamins. Now, when you do take pills of CoQ10, very little of it is absorbed, it has very poor, drug like properties, and only a tiny fraction of any pill one might take actually ends up in the body, and even less actually gets to the site of action where it's really needed. Now despite this, there has been shown some clinical benefit from that small amount of CoQ10 that has been absorbed. So it's clearly quite a promising molecule, it just really needs to be improved.