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Coenzyme Q10 has been used by clinicians to treat mitochondrial disease really ever since it was really understood what the role of that molecule was, in the body. It's clearly understood to shuttle electrons between the machinery in the redox processes of the mitochondria. So it made sense for clinicians to consider using it as a therapy to fix diseases that were understood to be failures in the mitochondrial or the redox processes. They felt by giving more of this molecule which could move electrons around, they could fix any underlying problems, perhaps based on the theory that a patient may be deficient in CoQ10 or that simply by having more of it, that would be a good thing.