Henry, a retired friend with a background in government policy and hospital administration, studiously focuses, along with his wife, on healthy lifestyles to maintain wellness and prevent disease. He also advocates for healthy lifestyles in their retirement community. But he recently contacted me asking what I thought about using NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) or one of its precursors for lengthening life and healthspan, meaning added years without disease. Henry had read about it in a popular book on living well and noted that I wrote briefly about it in .
Then Lucy, a mid-50s specialist physician, told me she had felt extremely burned out after the pandemic with intense fatigue, diminished interest, and little energy left for her family. After researching the literature, she began taking NAD’s precursor, NMN along with NAC (N-acetylcysteine.) She began to feel much more energetic within days. “It was a miracle and it has persisted for two years.” Of course, Lucy’s experience is an “anecdote,” apparently a clearcut result for her but not a scientific study. Yet certainly
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