A comment on Co-enzyme Q10 and BG regulation

[d0zivyhoo]

After a month of struggling to get my CKD kitty's BG regulated (she needs renal diet food or she gets too acidic), I happened onto an article about Co-enzyme Q10.

So, I added some to her diet 2x a day, and my gosh, she's been totally regulated ever since.

I am using and AlphaTrak2 to get her numbers, so they are higher than the human meters. A desired range for AlphaTrak is between 80 and 180.

Her range over the last 48 hours is a low of 108 and and a high of 180 (first day after starting) and mostly staying in between those numbers.

I am ecstatic. My girl's pancreas is toast, so she'll never be off the juice, but at least now I can sleep at night!

So, if any of you are fighting to regulate, please do discuss supplementing Co-enzyme Q10 with your vet as a possibility. For those of you who's kitties are already regulated, Co-enzyme Q10 might throw off all of your hard work, so be careful.

See my next post below for multiple links for you to research and provide to your vet if necessary,

Good luck.

DZ and Sarah

 

[BJM]

Can you list the article citation?

 

[d0zivyhoo]

Well, you got me going on this one. I wanted to make sure there is full disclosure for everyone. Of course, with everything, there is good and bad, but it sure has helped my kitty. I'll be curious to see if I can get her off of her blood pressure meds too (getting it tested on Tuesday).

I can't find the original article (isn't that always the case?), but the Mayo Clinic lists lowering glucose levels as a side effect (thus, my warning to people whose cats are already properly regulated):

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/coenzyme-q10/NS_patient-coenzymeq10/DSECTION=safety

http://books.google.com/books?id=pD...page&q=coenzyme q10 and diabetic cats&f=false

http://www.livestrong.com/article/87037-coenzyme-q10-side-effects/

Search for the word conclusion: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12428181

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/coenzyme-q10-000295.htm

From: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/othernuts/coq10/:

Decreased plasma levels of coenzyme Q10 have been observed in individuals with diabetes, cancer, and congestive heart failure

And from http://www.pjstory.com/CoQ10.htm which is not a medical institution:

Coenzyme Q10 is needed for normal blood sugar metabolism. Animals with diabetes have been reported to be CoQ10 deficient. People with type 2 diabetes have been found to have significantly lower blood levels of CoQ10 compared with healthy people.