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Perhaps G&E just sell ubiquinone, which is the usual more common form of Q10.
Ubiquinone converts to ubiquinol in the body, assuming that your body biochemistry is working OK. However, I read if you are older, your body finds it more difficult to perform the conversion, so then a ubiquinol supplement might be better.
Ubiquinol is also better absorbed than ubiquinone by a factor of 2.
But I understand that ubiquinol will oxidize to ubiquinone in the air, so you may buy ubiquinol, but once you open the packet, it starts to convert to ubiquinone. Apparently this can be prevented by adding alpha lipoic acid to ubiquinol. Furthermore, alpha lipoic acid can actually be used to convert ubiquinone to ubiquinol — see here.
Now that is interesting if ALA added to the ubiquinol will stop that conversion because of exposure to air. I've wondered what I was going to do with the ubiquinol powder after it arrives for that reason. Am also facing adding it to oil. Will check out your link! My problem is that I'm not at all sure I convert ubiquinone to ubiquinol thanks to the rare mutations I have which seem to have become activated.