Pyrroloquinoline Quinone and mTORs

As a general statement, mTORs are cellular regulatory proteins essential for the activation of proteins specific or important to growth and cellular replication.  Almost any factor important to protein synthesis affects mTOR activation to some degree by interacting...

PQQ and disease

Regarding PQQ and Parkinson’s disease: PQQ and Parkinson’s disease, regrettably, there are no clinical studies that been done to date to directly address whether PQQ is effective in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Although you can find these...

PQQ Side Effects

If you are worried about PQQ side effects, the good news is the current data for PQQ’s safety is excellent — at least for limited or short-term use (e.g. up to a year) in humans and longer-term use in animals. Long-term (multiple-year) safety in humans still needs to...

Vitamin PQQ and Probiotics

PQQ is a growth factor and chemical attractant for a number of bacteria. Bacteria defined as acidobacteria and methylotrophic bacteria produce PQQ.  Acidobacteria are common to soil and methylotrophs are organisms that can use reduced one-carbon compounds, such as...