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Old 02-02-2016, 10:43 AM
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There are many bromelain supplements out there, but ONLY ONE that I know of that is enteric coated.

Enteric coatings remain intact in the stomach (a stomach with acid in it ... not a stomach using acid blocking drugs).

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/life-...melain-60-tabs

The Jarrow form is a capsule, so I would not expect it to survive in the stomach acid. Also being a protease, the bromelain will act as a digestive aid, and start to break of protein in the food consumed, while it is still in the stomach.

I took the life extension form for several months when I was first diagnosed with HAE (hereditary angioedema)...and saw no effect on my arthritis. Bromelain was mentioned to possibly help with GI angioedema, but it did not seem to work for that either for me.

As for the CoQ-10... this is very insoluble in water and so now a couple of companies have solubilized it in a soft gel capsule.
Qunol and Qgel are their names. Non solubilized CoQ-10 needs 300mg doses to match Qunol which is 100mg per capsule.

Back when the first statin was marketed here by Merck called Lovastatin (Mevacor), Merck took out a patent on a combo product including CoQ-10. But they could not solve the solubility problem at that time, so they dropped the product. Instead they kept the CoQ-10 necessity for statin use a secret and so did all the rest of the statin makers. They believed that if they revealed the loss of CoQ-10 synthesis in the liver as side effect and that patients would have to pay big $$ out of pocket for it to protect their own CoQ-10 needs, that no one would use the RX statin. To this day, many doctors still do not know about how CoQ-10 synthesis is blocked by statins because of the fraudulent behavior by Big Pharma.

Qunol:
https://www.qunol.com/

Qgel by Tishcon:
http://www.qgel.com/
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