Idebenone -something interesting.

[eightthirty]

Prevage contains Idebenone - a super potent version of CoQ-10

Free radicals are both good and bad. They can damage the body but also are used to produce our energy, kill bacteria and viruses, and kill new tumor cells.

If you get too anti-oxidated, you will die. There are concerns about super antioxidants. One was being developed for skin products in Europe a few years ago that was 100 times more potent than things like CoQ10. But it caused cancer - your T-cells kill cancers cells by generating free radicals.

What you need is a mixture of the anti-oxidants the body normally uses.

There are no published papers on positive actions of Idebenone and skin. Scientifically proven means a result published in journals by several different labs. Ask the sellers of the products for publications on their specific products.

Ibedenone is a variant of CoQ-10. It is very hard to improve on Mother Nature. It has taken 40 years of intensive work by the pharmaceutical industry to develop effective anti-cholesterol drugs and they still have problems with side effects. CoQ-10 has been in our ancestors for probably over a billion years and is very safe.

Stick with the regular CoQ-10 that our body has always used.

 

[SierraWren]

My mother(56) has used Prevage for a year now, and swears it has made a difference in how her skin feels and looks. I've used it a few months too. Are you saying it's unlikely it really can make much of a difference-I certainly don't see or feel any in my own skin, and I stopped using it a few weeks ago b/cause I thought it was making me breakout. If it is naturally occurring in C10, why buy the super expensive Prevage?

Thanks for the post--very interesting!

 

[kaeisme]

Whoa!

 

[Little_Lisa]

Thanks for the info! I think i'll stick with my CoQ10.

 

[dolphin_gal]

EXACTLY, Kim. Besides, your body (skin included) can only utilize so much at a time of a particular ingredient .... so why wasted $$$ on high % ingredients??? And in some instances, too much can be damaging your skin. We're here in this forum because we want to go forward, not backwards. My eyeballs might go in circles some days really delving into a particular ingredient and what it does, what it works in conjunction with, and so on. But in the end I am developing what I feel is the best and most sensible program for my skin without overloading it.