CoQ10 on a statin
Best CoQ10 for Statin Users: Five Lines to Read on the Label First
A statin lowers blood CoQ10 and blocks a building block called GG. Of the bottles read here, only EQ10 puts both back.
The best CoQ10 to take with a statin meets five checks on its back label. On a statin, one matters most: GG, a building block a statin also blocks. Of the bottles on this page, only EQ10, a CoQ10 made for people on a statin, lists it.
A statin is the daily pill many people take for cholesterol. You take it every day, often for years. EQ10 is made to take alongside it.
If you take one, a CoQ10 bottle may sit next to it in your cabinet. Maybe a friend told you about it, or your doctor brought it up.
Many people start reading about CoQ10 because of how their muscles feel on a statin. A label can't tell you how you'll feel. It can tell you what's inside the softgel.
CoQ10, short for coenzyme Q10, is something your own body makes. Your cells use it to turn food into energy. Blood CoQ10 goes down on a statin, and that has been measured.
So a CoQ10 bottle makes sense. Picking one is the hard part. Two bottles can look alike on the front and hold very different things.
The back shows what's different: the form of CoQ10, the amount in one softgel, and the oil it sits in. On a statin, there's one more line to read, called GG.
This page reads each line with you. Then it sets four well-known bottles next to EQ10.
Five lines to read
What to read on the back of a CoQ10 bottle
Every CoQ10 bottle has a Supplement Facts box on the back, the panel with the amounts. Under it is a line called Other ingredients.
The five checks sit in those two spots. The picture shows where each one is.
The five parts below take them one at a time. If you take a statin, the fourth one, GG, is the one to read first.
Check 1 of 5 · Form
Form: ubiquinol or ubiquinone
Form
CoQ10 comes in two forms. Ubiquinol is the ready-to-use form, the form your blood already carries.
Ubiquinone is the older form. Your body has to change it into ubiquinol first.
Many of the best-known bottles hold ubiquinone. On this page, Qunol Ultra 100 mg, Nature Made and Doctor's Best all do.
The front rarely tells you. Qunol Ultra 100 mg, one of the easiest bottles to find, says Qunol in big letters. Its label never names the form, and that means the older form.
Life Extension holds ubiquinol from Kaneka, the Japanese company that made the first ubiquinol. So does EQ10.
If you take CoQ10 every day next to your statin, pick the form your blood already carries.
In the Supplement Facts box, find the CoQ10 line. It starts with Coenzyme Q10, or with the word Ubiquinol.
If that line says ubiquinol, it meets this check. Ubiquinone, or no form named at all, is the older form.
Check 2 of 5 · Dose
Dose: how much sits in one softgel
Dose
The dose is the number in mg, short for milligrams, printed big on the front. It tells you how much CoQ10 is in one softgel.
This check asks for 200 mg or more in one softgel. That's the amount used in many CoQ10 studies, including studies of people on a statin.
The Qunol Ultra, Doctor's Best and Life Extension bottles here hold 100 mg in each softgel. You'd take two a day, and that adds up to the same amount.
This check is about getting it all in one softgel. You already take a statin every day. One small softgel next to it is easier to keep up than two.
Find Serving size at the top of the box. If it says one softgel, read the mg on the CoQ10 line.
If the serving size says 2 softgels, halve the number. That gives you the amount in one.
Nature Made holds 200 mg in one softgel, so it meets this check.
Check 3 of 5 · Carrier
Carrier: the oil the CoQ10 sits in
Carrier
CoQ10 dissolves in fat, not in water. In that way, it's a lot like butter.
So a good softgel holds the CoQ10 already dissolved in an oil. That oil is called the carrier.
Your body takes CoQ10 in along with fat. In head-to-head studies, a capsule of dry powder, with no oil, came last. CoQ10 in oil came first.
Olive oil is the plain kitchen oil many people prefer, so it gets the check. Doctor's Best uses extra virgin olive oil, and EQ10 uses olive oil too.
Nature Made uses soybean oil. Qunol Ultra 100 mg uses MCT oil, a refined oil, made here from palm oil. Both miss, because soybean oil and palm oil are on the Clean label list in check 5.
Life Extension uses sunflower oil. Any named oil like that still carries the CoQ10, so it's close, but not quite.
Take your CoQ10 in the morning with food. The food adds a little more fat.
Read the first oil under Other ingredients. Olive oil meets this check.
Sunflower oil or another named oil is close, but not quite. Soybean oil, palm-oil MCT, or a dry powder with no oil misses it.
Check 4 of 5 · GG
GG: the line to read first on a statin
GG
GG is short for geranylgeraniol. It's a building block your own body makes.
It comes from the same pathway as CoQ10. A pathway is a chain of steps inside your cells. GG is made on the branch that isn't CoQ10.
A statin works on that same pathway. It turns the whole pathway down, and that's how it lowers cholesterol.
CoQ10 is one of the things made on that pathway. So blood CoQ10 goes down on a statin. A statin also blocks GG.
Most CoQ10 bottles only put CoQ10 back. They have no GG. Nobody tells you to look for it, so most people never do.
EQ10 adds GG back, 60 mg in each softgel. The idea: refill and restart, not just refill. In other words, put back both CoQ10 and GG, not only CoQ10.
None of the four other bottles here lists GG. EQ10 is made to take alongside your statin.
Look right under the CoQ10 line in the Supplement Facts box. GG gets a line of its own, with an amount next to it.
It may say geranylgeraniol, trans-geranylgeraniol or GG. No line means no GG.
Check 5 of 5 · Clean label
Clean label: what else is in the softgel
Clean label
Under the Supplement Facts box is a line most people skip. It starts with Other ingredients.
It lists everything else in the softgel: the shell, the oil, and anything added to help the factory.
You'll take this next to your statin every day, maybe for years. So a short list, where each part has a reason to be there, is the one to want.
Qunol Ultra 100 mg lists polysorbate 80, a man-made additive that helps oil and water mix. It also lists palm oil, soy lecithin, a soy-based additive, and added vitamin E.
Nature Made lists soybean oil, which is also its carrier.
Doctor's Best lists soy lecithin. Life Extension lists sunflower lecithin, which isn't on the list. A softgel doesn't need it either, so it's close, but not quite.
Gelatin, glycerin and water are fine. They're what a softgel shell is made of.
Read the whole Other ingredients line. It should have no palm oil, no soybean oil, no polysorbate 80 and no soy lecithin.
It should also have no added vitamin E, an extra vitamin a CoQ10 softgel doesn't need. And no titanium dioxide, a white coloring.
Nothing on it should be bioengineered, the word US labels use for genetically modified.
Before the ranking
Here’s everything explained
Before you see how the bottles rank, here’s the whole idea explained in one short video.
Side by side
The five bottles, side by side
Here are four well-known bottles next to EQ10. Each one is read from its own back label.
EQ10 is the amber column. Each column head shows how many of the five checks that bottle meets. Price has a row too, in words, but it doesn't count toward that.
The Label Panel
- Meets the check
- Partly
- Misses the check
| The check |
EQ10 Active CoQ10 · Statin Support
5/5
|
Life Extension Super Ubiquinol 100 mg
1/5
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Doctor's Best CoQ10 100 mg softgels
1/5
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Nature Made CoQ10 200 mg
1/5
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Qunol Ultra CoQ10 100 mg
0/5
|
Your bottle of 5 |
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| 1 · Form Ubiquinol is the ready-to-use form. Ubiquinone is the older form. | ✓ Kaneka ubiquinol , the ready-to-use form | ✓ Kaneka ubiquinol , the ready-to-use form | ✕ Ubiquinone , the older form your body changes first | ✕ Ubiquinone , the older form your body changes first | ✕ Ubiquinone , the older form your body changes first | Says ubiquinol? |
| 2 · Dose In one softgel or capsule | ✓ 200 mg in one softgel | ✕ 100 mg in one softgel | ✕ 100 mg in one softgel | ✓ 200 mg in one softgel | ✕ 100 mg in one softgel | 200 mg or more in one? |
| 3 · Carrier The oil it sits in | ✓ Olive oil | ! Sunflower oil, not olive oil | ✓ Extra virgin olive oil | ✕ Soybean oil | ✕ MCT oil made from palm oil | Olive oil? |
| 4 · GG The building block a statin also blocks | ✓ Has GG , a building block statins also block | ✕ None | ✕ None | ✕ None | ✕ None | A line for GG? |
| 5 · Clean label Nothing it doesn’t need | ✓ No palm oil, soy or polysorbate 80 | ! Has sunflower lecithin | ✕ Soy lecithin | ✕ Soybean oil | ✕ Polysorbate 80, palm oil, soy lecithin, vitamin E | None of the words from check 5? |
| Price, not counted Not part of the score | Higher per bottle, less on a bundle | One of the pricier options | One of the lower-cost options | One of the lowest-cost options | One of the lower-cost options |
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EQ10 Active CoQ10 · Statin Support
5/5
- ✓ Form Kaneka ubiquinol, the ready-to-use form
- ✓ Dose 200 mg in one softgel
- ✓ Carrier Olive oil
- ✓ GG Has GG, a building block statins also block
- ✓ Clean label No palm oil, soy or polysorbate 80
- Price, not counted Higher per bottle, less on a bundle
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Life Extension Super Ubiquinol 100 mg
1/5
- ✓ Form Kaneka ubiquinol, the ready-to-use form
- ✕ Dose 100 mg in one softgel
- ! Carrier Sunflower oil, not olive oil
- ✕ GG None
- ! Clean label Has sunflower lecithin
- Price, not counted One of the pricier options
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Doctor's Best CoQ10 100 mg softgels
1/5
- ✕ Form Ubiquinone, the older form your body changes first
- ✕ Dose 100 mg in one softgel
- ✓ Carrier Extra virgin olive oil
- ✕ GG None
- ✕ Clean label Soy lecithin
- Price, not counted One of the lower-cost options
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Nature Made CoQ10 200 mg
1/5
- ✕ Form Ubiquinone, the older form your body changes first
- ✓ Dose 200 mg in one softgel
- ✕ Carrier Soybean oil
- ✕ GG None
- ✕ Clean label Soybean oil
- Price, not counted One of the lowest-cost options
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Qunol Ultra CoQ10 100 mg
0/5
- ✕ Form Ubiquinone, the older form your body changes first
- ✕ Dose 100 mg in one softgel
- ✕ Carrier MCT oil made from palm oil
- ✕ GG None
- ✕ Clean label Polysorbate 80, palm oil, soy lecithin, vitamin E
- Price, not counted One of the lower-cost options
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Your bottle of 5
- Form Does the CoQ10 line say ubiquinol, the ready-to-use form?
- Dose Is there 200 mg or more in one softgel?
- Carrier Is the first oil under Other ingredients olive oil?
- GG Is there a line for GG, or geranylgeraniol, under the CoQ10?
- Clean label Is the Other ingredients line free of palm oil, soybean oil, polysorbate 80, soy lecithin, added vitamin E and titanium dioxide, with nothing bioengineered?
Each cell comes from that bottle’s back label. The price row comes from store prices, September 2026.
Now look along the GG row. EQ10's column is the one with a check in it.
Bottles with the same score are in no particular order.
Get the CoQ10 bottle you have now, and read its back label. Go down the five checks in order.
Give your bottle one mark for each yes.
On a statin, look hardest at check four. GG gets its own line on the back only. That line is the one to look for.
Bottle by bottle
Where each bottle stands for someone on a statin
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EQ10 Active CoQ10 · Statin Support 5/5 checks met
EQ10 meets all five checks. It holds 200 mg of Kaneka ubiquinol in one softgel, in olive oil, with GG added. The GG is why it was made for people on a statin.
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Life Extension Super Ubiquinol 100 mg 1/5 checks met
It holds Kaneka ubiquinol, the same form as EQ10. Each softgel has 100 mg, so you'd take two a day. It's in sunflower oil, not olive oil, and there's no GG.
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Doctor's Best CoQ10 100 mg softgels 1/5 checks met
Its softgels carry the USP Verified seal, an outside group's check that the bottle holds what the label says. They sit in extra virgin olive oil, but hold ubiquinone, the older form. Each softgel has 100 mg, so you'd take two a day, and there's no GG.
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Nature Made CoQ10 200 mg 1/5 checks met
It carries the USP Verified seal. One softgel holds 200 mg, so it meets the Dose check. But it's ubiquinone, the older form, in soybean oil, and there's no GG.
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Qunol Ultra CoQ10 100 mg 0/5 checks met
It's easy to find, and it's the most-rated bottle here on Amazon. On the back, it holds ubiquinone at 100 mg a softgel, in MCT oil made from palm oil. It has no GG, and it misses all five checks.
Inside EQ10
What's inside EQ10, and why each part is there
EQ10 is a CoQ10 made to take alongside a statin. Here is its Supplement Facts box, line by line.
Supplement Facts
Serving size: 1 softgel
Amount per serving % Daily Value
Ubiquinol CoQ10, Kaneka® 200 mg †
Trans-geranylgeraniol, GG 60 mg †
† Daily Value not established.
Other ingredients: olive oil, the fat-soluble carrier; gelatin; glycerin; purified water; ascorbyl palmitate, an antioxidant.
Ubiquinol from Kaneka, 200 mg
The first line is ubiquinol, the ready-to-use form of CoQ10. Kaneka, the Japanese company that made the first ubiquinol, makes it. It helps replenish CoQ10 levels*.
GG, 60 mg
The second line is GG, short for geranylgeraniol. It's the building block a statin also blocks. EQ10 adds it back.
The idea: refill and restart, not just refill. Most CoQ10 bottles only do the first part.
Olive oil and the softgel shell
The ubiquinol and the GG are dissolved in olive oil, the carrier. Gelatin, glycerin and purified water make the softgel shell.
Ascorbyl palmitate, a form of vitamin C, keeps the oil fresh. Nothing else is on the label. Here's what is not on it:
- No palm oil
- No soybean oil
- No polysorbate 80
- No soy lecithin
- Nothing bioengineered
How to take it
Take one small softgel a day, in the morning with food. Blood levels take about two weeks to settle. It's made to take every day, for months, not days.
It doesn't work overnight. Many people on a statin take CoQ10 next to it and say it helps.
Answers
CoQ10 and statins, answered
Can I take CoQ10 with my statin?
Many people on a statin take CoQ10 next to it and say it helps. EQ10 was made for exactly that, to take alongside your statin. Stay on your statin.
Take it in the morning, with food.
What is the best CoQ10 to take with a statin?
Look for one that meets all five checks. That's ubiquinol, 200 mg in one softgel, olive oil, GG and a clean label.
Of the bottles read here, EQ10 is the one that meets them all.
Why does GG matter if I take a statin?
A statin turns down the pathway your body uses to make CoQ10. GG comes from that same pathway, so a statin also blocks it.
A bottle without GG puts only CoQ10 back. EQ10 puts back both.
Will I feel a difference?
Many people on a statin take CoQ10 and say it helps. It doesn't work overnight, though.
Blood levels take about two weeks to settle. It's made to take every day, for months, not days.
How much CoQ10 should I take with a statin?
200 mg a day is the amount used in many CoQ10 studies, including studies of people on a statin.
One EQ10 softgel holds 200 mg. So it's one softgel a day, in the morning with food.
In short
What the labels showed, on a statin
On this page, the four other bottles met one check or none. None of them lists GG. EQ10 met all five.
Here are the five checks once more:
- Form: ubiquinol, the ready-to-use form
- Dose: 200 mg or more in one softgel
- Carrier: dissolved in olive oil
- GG: its own line, right under the CoQ10
- Clean label: none of the additives from check 5
If you'd rather not read every label, EQ10 meets all five checks, GG included.
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