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Some of you might be having a hard time choosing what’s the best skincare product to use to keep your skin healthy and young-looking. As we age, our skin starts to get sagged, and wrinkles are starting to show on our faces. This is where the aid of skincare products came into the rescue as they can firm the skin, just like day and night rejuvenating cream, moisturizer, and some age-defying cream that can improve skin’s elasticity. When it comes to firmness, there’s an ingredient that is mostly incorporated in your favorite beauty products and its name is CoQ10. CoQ10 or Coenzyme Q-10 serves as an antioxidant – it’s a kind of fat-soluble quinone compound, and it can be found in every cell of the human body. And as we grow older, the levels of coenzyme Q-10 decrease. It also decreases when you are stressed and sick and that could lead to sagging skin, wrinkles, and loss of firmness and elasticity.

Coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinone) was discovered in 1957 by Frederick Crane at Purdue University in Indiana. Aside from the cells of your body, it can also be found in meat, fish, and nuts. However, this isn’t enough to increase CoQ10 in your body. The topical application of CoQ10 is considered one of the effective ways to reaping all the benefits it could offer.

There’s a lot of skincare products that contain CoQ10 such as toners, moisturizers, lotions, face creams, and even under-eye creams that helps even skin tone and reduce the appearance of fine lines. Also, it works similarly to another powerhouse ingredient – Vitamin C –the most common antioxidant used topically for its anti-aging effect.  CoQ10 has also been shown to use the same pathway to neutralize free radicals. There’s a study that using both Vitamin C and CoQ10 works better than each alone.

Listed below are some of the beauty benefits that this wonder ingredient could offer:

Coenzyme Q10 acts as an additional sun protection

As an antioxidant, Coenzyme Q10 is believed to be involved in preventing chronological aging (loss of firmness in the skin as you get older) and photoaging (wrinkling and drying of skin from excessive sun exposure). CoQ10 can also help to prevent the inflammation of wrinkling caused by the radicals formed in your skin after sun exposure. Daily application of skincare products with CoQ10 can lessen the damage when exposed to UVA or UVB light.

This study published in the year 2014  concluded that applying CoQ10 directly to the skin can reduce the damage from internal and external agents by increasing energy production in skin cells and promoting antioxidants. Apart from the protection that CoQ10 provides, it is also believed that it can aid in the skin’s lightening process. Topical application of CoQ10 has been shown to reduce oxidative damage caused by UV rays and even decrease the depth of wrinkles.

Coenzyme Q10 can stimulate collagen and elastin production

Yes! Coenzyme Q10 can also support the production of collagen, collagen is vital as it makes up almost 80% of our skin and almost a third of all proteins in our body. CoQ10 helps increase cell regeneration, protect delicate organs, strengthen bones, tendons, joints, and maintain skin elasticity. CoQ10 turns off the enzyme that breaks down the collagen and protects the collagen you have and produces more of it.

Coenzyme Q10 can boost your energy

Lack of CoQ10 can affect our energy and muscle function caused by oxidative stress and affect our exercise performance. According to the study published in the year 2012 whereas, stating that abnormal mitochondrial function can reduce muscle energy, making it hard for muscles to contract efficiently and sustain exercise. In such cases, CoQ10 helps increase exercise performance by decreasing the oxidative stress in the cells and improving mitochondrial functions.
Another study published in the year former year concluded that those supplementing with 1,200 mg of CoQ10 per day for 60 days showed decreased oxidative stress. Daily consumption may help increase power during exercise and reduce fatigue, both of which can improve exercise performance.

Coenzyme Q10 can help remove toxins in the body

Getting rid of toxins in the body is vital as it promotes your overall well-being with which soon will be reflected in your skin. Coenzyme Q10 finding a way to cleanse your body by removing the toxins that affecting your skin and well-being. And since CoQ10 aids in cell activity, it also means that your cells can be more efficient in flushing out toxins like free radicals and healing the damage they cause. According to this study, antioxidants such as CoQ10 can neutralize free radicals and help prevent the damage they cause. Also, adding CoQ10 to your skincare may allow your cells to better utilize other nutrients, leading to healthier skin overall.

Coenzyme Q10 is good for your overall well-being

With more and more shifting to healthier lifestyles sure that CoQ10 can help you with that! Aside from making your skin younger-looking, it can also prevent you from having Diabetes, protect your lungs, improve your brain, and prevents you from having cancer. According to this study published in the year 2014 saying that if your body is unable to effectively fight oxidative damage, the structure of your cells can become damaged, possibly increasing the risk of cancer. Also, cancer patients have shown that they have lower levels of CoQ10 in the body.  CoQ10 protects cells from oxidative stress and promotes cellular energy production this is proven true by the study published in the year 2007 whereas, it was suggested that supplementing with CoQ10 may help reduce the chance of cancer recurrence.

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