Has anyone here had any luck lowering their C-reactive protein levels using CoQ10?
Not only with CoQ10, but comprehensive nutrients supplementation, herbals and diet (including those prescribed for example in this blog post). My CRP + ESR-history:
year CRP ESR
2006 96 74
2009 1.6 8
2010 3.2 26
3.5 5
2011 2.7 4
2012 2.7 -
7.6 -
2013 6.6 130
0.7 7
2014 4.8 15
3 -
2015 3.2 16
1.8 7
2016 1.3 12
0.8 5
2017 2.7 32
0.7 3
2018 1.8 32
The highest CRP in '06 I wasn't even aware of. Only 2 years later with a PAD diagnosis and a 60% walking disability I started to take my health in my own hands, and requested copies of these older results. Was treated a myo-pericarditis with antibiotics in a hospital at that time.
With the new diagnosis I started with Orthomolecular medicine and changed diet. With which I made great progress by improving my pain-free walking distance from 3-400 meter at worst, up to 1 hour in the first year. 2 hrs the second. In 2012 suffered the whole year a chronic bronchitis, and by the end of the year with still no improvement I drew the towel and went for 5 months to a South-Indian beach to recover with the aid of warm sea-air (walking-distance having reduced to 1/2 hr again). From then onward also utilizing copious amounts of Ayurvedics.
Beginning of '13 - at the time of the highest ESR of 130 and short after the highest CRP of 7.6 I got for 1 month really sick (high fever, nausea, vomiting - probably typhoid fever) and suddenly improved again. From then onward seeing a yearly further decline in CRP proceeding.
Though I also observed a paradoxical pattern. Since 2012 I returned each January for 6 weeks to the same beach for vacations. And all those times had the higher CRP and ESR each year. With the second measurement at home always lower. Contrarily, liver and kidney marker always lower there, while borderline high at home.
PS: In 2015 my walking-disabilty has been revoked, from that year also had my only CoQ10 serum level tested at 3.3 µg/ml. Have been taken in average 110 mg of ubiquinone along with 50 mg/d of ubiquinol for the last 10 years. Also had the experience that stress-related (physical or mental) angina-like chest-pain ceased with about 160 mg of ubiquinone, or half that amount in ubiquinol. That has hold true and worked for me now for 10 years.
Edited by pamojja, 03 October 2018 - 06:10 PM.