How to understand Coenzyme Q10?

  Recently there are a lot of netizens asked about Coenzyme Q10 treatment and prevention of disease, I can only answer one by one on what I know personally, and today another friend sent me the article “Nobel Laureate Dr. Mitchell reveals the whole story for you” and asked me how this Coenzyme Q10 works for a long time. This is a very complex question, I think as a doctor, can not say yes to the targetless use of drugs! And whether! I can only send you my opinion of what I know and understand.  This should be a different class of drugs than many of the current antioxidant and anti-free radical supplement treatments!  Free radicals are atoms, groups, ions or molecules that have unpaired electrons outside the nucleus of an atom, and oxygen is also a free radical. Exercise and the consumption of resveratrol, curcumin and carotenoid are all means of inducing endogenous antioxidant capacity, which can also be described as an anti-free radical process.  Coenzyme Q10, on the other hand, is a member of the ubiquinone class, a group of fat-soluble quinones that are an important free radical. The cellular class COQ contains 10 isoprene units and is therefore called Q10. An important way for aerobic cells to produce ATP is through oxidative phosphorylation, which is an electron transfer process consisting of many processes, and the site of activity of oxidative phosphorylation is in the mitochondria. Without free radicals and free radical reactions, it is difficult to sustain the cellular energy supply and it cannot function properly. Therefore, it is also useful for the basis of coenzyme Q10.  But oxidation or antioxidant I personally think that should be indispensable for normal life talk, now many antioxidant and anti-free radical products can be found everywhere, and there is a free radical health products is not bad. Because many reactive oxygen or free radicals and oxygen, like oxygen, is also very important life active substances.