Coenzyme Q10 - Idebenone
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:30 am
Has anybody experience with Idebenone - or Mnesis (Takeda Chemicals) or whatever commercial name - ?
It looks promising, sort of better chemical variant of CoQ10 - with so called properties to protect the brain's myelin sheath.
I am a chemist, and both molecules look very similar in their anti-oxydant properties. Unfortunately I do not know anything about how slightly different chains in a molecule could affect processes in the body.
http://www.antiaging-systems.com/a2z/idebenone.htm
http://internaf.org/ataxia/Idebenone_desc.html
http://www.smart-drugs.com/article-Jame ... benone.htm
Or just talk from companies trying to sell an expensive drug/food supplement? Idebenone is hard to get; CoQ10 not.
My partner has primary progressive ms, and he gets no medication at all, but he is better by taking 3 x 200 mg daily CoQ10 (our own initiative). By better I mean coördination and speech. Sure we can not say there is a cause/effect relation between taking CoQ10 and being better, because if there is one thing certain about ms is that it is unpredictable.
But, then I read that idebenone is superior to CoQ10.
Any response (positive or negative) would be very welcome. Thanks in advance.
It looks promising, sort of better chemical variant of CoQ10 - with so called properties to protect the brain's myelin sheath.
I am a chemist, and both molecules look very similar in their anti-oxydant properties. Unfortunately I do not know anything about how slightly different chains in a molecule could affect processes in the body.
http://www.antiaging-systems.com/a2z/idebenone.htm
http://internaf.org/ataxia/Idebenone_desc.html
http://www.smart-drugs.com/article-Jame ... benone.htm
Or just talk from companies trying to sell an expensive drug/food supplement? Idebenone is hard to get; CoQ10 not.
My partner has primary progressive ms, and he gets no medication at all, but he is better by taking 3 x 200 mg daily CoQ10 (our own initiative). By better I mean coördination and speech. Sure we can not say there is a cause/effect relation between taking CoQ10 and being better, because if there is one thing certain about ms is that it is unpredictable.
But, then I read that idebenone is superior to CoQ10.
Any response (positive or negative) would be very welcome. Thanks in advance.