Oral contraceptives decrease levels of CoQ10 and vitamin E

According to research done at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, of 55 premenopausal women (fifteen taking oral contraceptives and forty were not), those taking oral contraceptives had levels of CoQ10 and vitamin E that were 37 percent and 24 percent lower, respectively, than those not taking them. The researchers say that adequate supplementation can bring the levels to normal while on oral contraceptives.

Courtesy of Alternative Medicine, January 2007