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The effects of coenzyme Q10 supplementation on the improvement of skin status in young adults
Author(s) -
Lee BogHieu,
Kim MiYoung,
Cho KyungDong,
Baek OkHee,
Jeon Eu Sun,
Kim Eun Jin
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.23.1_supplement.729.12
Subject(s) - coenzyme q10 , medicine , placebo , meal , snacking , wrinkle , physiology , gerontology , pathology , alternative medicine , obesity
The study investigated the effect of coenzyme Q10(CQ10) supplementation on the skin status of young women for 6 weeks. Subjects were divided into four groups of 8 each: placebo control, low CQ10(LCQ, 30 mg/d), medium CQ10(MCQ,60 mg/d), high CQ10(HCQ, 120 mg/d). The study included survey questionnaires, skin status, and blood chemical analyses. The subjects had bad dietary habits like irregular meal eating, skipping meal, snacking and alcohol drinking often. The subjects responded most important ingredient for good skin was vitamins and lipid. After the CQ10 supplementation, overall skin status of the groups given CQ10 showed the tendency to improve in moisture, elasticity, evenness, wrinkles, sebum, spot, and pore size compared to the placebo control, although the statistical significance had shown only in elasticity. In terms of the level of CQ supplementation per se, MCQ and HCQ seemed to be better in effectiveness of skin improvement, but MCQ appeared to be better and consistent effects on most of the variables of the skin status rather than that of HCQ. In blood chemicals, MDA level of CQ groups tended to be lower than that of placebo. From the findings, the supplementation of CQ10 might be effective in improving skin status and possibly lower MDA levels of blood.