The importance of taking NIAGEN
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NIAGEN® is at the core of what’s important to us at Nectar7. As a company that focuses on cellular health, we think there are few products that are better for you and your aging process.
As a result, we’ve written some great content about NIAGEN® and NAD+ on our blog. Below are a few articles you can check out to learn the basics and figure out how NIAGEN® can benefit you!
What You Need To Know About The Anti-Aging NAD Supplement
What is NAD+?
NAD+ is short for Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide — that’s a mouthful!
This essential coenzyme plays one of the most important roles in your body. Operating on a cellular level, NAD+ helps to transfer energy from the foods you eat into fuel that will eventually power your cells.
NAD+ is responsible for proper body function on a cellular level. When the body has enough NAD+, this coenzyme actively helps to prevent the signs of aging, such as disease, fatigue, belly fat, and wrinkles. That’s because aging is the result of cellular breakdown within the body and NAD+ helps to ensure that the body’s cells are working at peak efficiency.
Without NAD+, the body is susceptible to cellular self-destruction.
And the problem with NAD+ is that it declines naturally over time — but not just gradually, either. By the time you reach your early 20s, you’ve depleted up to half of the NAD+ levels in your body. And the reserve that you enjoy now is in a continual state of decline. What’s worse is you have no ability to slow it down.
Until now, that is.
Studies have proven that it’s actually possible to boost NAD+ levels quite safely and effectively with a vitamin that you’re probably already familiar with: vitamin B3.
Vitamin B3, also known interchangeably as nicotinamide riboside or as NIAGEN® commercially, is a scientifically proven NAD+ booster.
What vitamin B3 does is encourage the production of NAD+.
So this begs the question: why can’t you take NAD+ directly instead?
Although it is possible to produce the coenzyme NAD+, it simply cannot be administered orally. When taken orally, NAD+ is destroyed during the digestive process, way before it can make it to the cells.
However, clinical trials have shown that the body can naturally produce NAD+ when given a high quality dose of NIAGEN®.
In fact, one dose of NIAGEN® can increase your NAD+ levels by up to 33%. That increase will take effect within hours.
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The Benefits Of Nicotinamide Riboside (And NAD+)
How Does Nicotinamide Riboside Protect Against Aging?
Aging is the result of a breakdown in communication at the cellular level. Within each cell is the nucleus, which is the “brain” of the cell, and the mitochondria, which creates the cellular health level necessary to help the cell function properly.
The mitochondria can be considered the “batteries” of the cell. The mitochondria have a huge impact on the body’s rate of aging. Mitochondrial dysfunction leads to several age-associated disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. This is because mitochondrial dysfunction affects the organs with the highest energy demands, including the brain, liver, lung, heart, and kidneys. It also has a negative impact on the muscles and gastrointestinal tract.
As the body ages, the communication between the nucleus and the mitochondria simply break down. Nicotinamide riboside is instrumental in boosting NAD+ levels, which helps to improve the functionality of the mitochondria.
The Role of NAD+
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD+ for short, is found in every human cell. This essential coenzyme is an electron carrier and helps to convert nutritional energy by giving and receiving electrons.
NAD+ helps to transfer energy from glucose to the mitochondria, where it will then be converted into fuel used to power the cell. However, not having enough NAD+ will dramatically slow down the cell’s ability to convert nutrition into energy. This leads to diminished cell function as a whole, which results in aging and welcomes disease and distress in the body.
As you can see, NAD+ and mitochondria are inextricably connected. When levels of the NAD+ coenzyme decrease, the efficiency of the mitochondria also diminishes.
NAD+ has been proven to increase efficiency in mitochondrial function. As we discussed above, damage to the mitochondrial DNA will encourage rapid aging.
Nicotinamide riboside effectively boosts the co-enzyme NAD+. Why is this important?
Preliminary research with mice suggests that nicotinamide riboside helps to repair the degenerative signs of aging and actually prevent it from occurring. By administering nicotinamide ribosode to mice, researchers observed that muscles regenerated on a cellular level.
Research also shows that NR lowers the amount of glucose in the blood, which can benefit those suffering with diabetes.
While NAD+ is the active agent in preventing aging, nicotinamide riboside is the key agent in producing NAD+. To produce NAD+, scientists use several complex biological processes. However, NR is easier to produce and, after introducing it into the body, it is extremely efficient in boosting NAD+ levels.
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A Beginner’s Guide To NAD+ (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide)
Wait, How is Nectar7 NIAGEN® Connected to NAD+ Levels?
You may be wondering why you should take Nectar7 NIAGEN® instead of NAD+ directly. After all, it is NAD+ that you need.
The problem is that, while you do need to boost your NAD+ levels, you cannot take NAD+ directly. When taken orally, this coenzyme is destroyed within your digestive system before it can be used effectively on a cellular level.
But the solution is to consume a potent but safe NAD+ booster.
Enter NIAGEN®.
NIAGEN® is a commercially available form of nicotinamide riboside. While nicotinamide riboside is produced naturally within the human body, NIAGEN® is a scientifically created formula that is safe to use.
Nicotinamide riboside (sold commercially as NIAGEN®) is a Vitamin B3 metabolite.
This Vitamin B3 metabolite is a precursor to NAD+.
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A proven way to boost NAD+ levels is to increase your intake of NIAGEN®. Because NIAGEN® is nicotinamide riboside and is readily absorbed by the body, NIAGEN® will stimulate the natural production of NAD+ on a cellular level.
Why Take NIAGEN®?
Although you will get older, you don’t have to automatically accept the often degenerative consequences of aging. By taking a proactive stance on your health, not only can you slow down the inevitability of aging, you can actually reverse it.
NIAGEN® helps to boost your body’s natural defense against aging, but it also protects against:
- Diminished brain health (poor memory or acuity)
- Elevated (bad) cholesterol levels
- Failing cardiovascular health
- Weight gain
- Sleeplessness
Studies suggest that a consistent administration of NIAGEN® can turn back the hands of time and make your cells function like younger versions of themselves. In a study performed by Dr. David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School, nicotinamide riboside reversed aging in mice on a cellular level. After receiving an administration of nicotinamide riboside, these two-year-old mice actually had the cells of 6-month-old mice. And this reversion happened within one week’s time.
You may not have heard a lot about NIAGEN® because it’s relatively new to the scene, having only come to prominence in 2013 with Dr. Sinclair’s landmark study. Within the years following, there are dozens of active studies that support the claim that NIAGEN® is the fountain of youth, in pill form.
NIAGEN® is one of the most important discoveries is reversing the signs of aging.
NIAGEN® partners together with you to improve your mitochondrial health– on the cellular level. NIAGEN® sets off a series of events that aid each cell in repairing its DNA and decelerating the process of aging.
