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Jomico's avatar

Dr Shamsuddin an expert on B8 inositol hexaphosphate explaining great detail why this 6 phosphate ring fixes PCOS through chelation of calcium and iron .. it is an antioxidant known to improve PCOS.. it also impairs cancer pathways.. the other point I would like to make is CoQ10 which is found in a more potent form in Astaxanthin which also contains higher amount of vitamin C vitamin E and omega 3 the electron chain complexes in the mitochondria need CoQ10 which is why people low on CoQ10 are also low in making ATP and low energy…

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Brenna's avatar

The book “it starts with an egg” recommends CoQ10 for egg quality. I think she did cite some studies in that book, I’ll have to check!

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Fran | The PCOS Newsletter's avatar

Oh nice, let me know if you find the studies.

In this article there are two:

1) proves that CoQ10 does help with egg quality, however the research doesn't look at PCOS specifically

2) the second one proves that older women who are going through IVF, taking CoQ10 also had improved egg quality, but not done on PCOS

I am intrigued to dig a bit deeper on what anovulatory cycles does to the quality of our eggs. I will write about this in follow-on newsletters.

Would you recommend the book?

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