It is a coenzyme involved in cellular energy production
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[DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] 83.Weisel J.W., Litvinov R.I
PMID 21780203
In the United States it is not FDA-approved: it had been placed in the FDA's restricted 503A bulk-compounding category and was removed from that restricted list in April 2026 as part of a procedural review reset, with a federal advisory committee due to reassess it in mid-2026