Benefits of NAD+:
The benefits of NAD+ are wide ranging and affect nearly every organ system in the body. Increasing levels of NAD+ via intravenous can have profound positive effects on the body as briefly described below.
LIVER:
NAD+ boosting appears to not only improve the health of the liver, but also increase its capacity for regeneration and protect it against hepatotoxicity.
KIDNEYS:
Several lines of evidence indicate that reduced levels of NAD+ in aged kidneys are largely responsible for reduced kidney function and resilience with age.
SKELETAL MUSCLE:
Treatment with NAD+ dramatically improves muscle function, reverses detrimental age-associated changes in muscle by increasing mitochondrial function, increasing ATP production, and reducing inflammation.
CARDIAC:
NAD+ levels are critical for normal heart function and recovery from injury.
ENDOTHELIA and VASCULAR:
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases contribute to the greatest decline in quality of life after 65 and are directly responsible for about one-third of all deaths. Thus repleting NAD+ levels in the vascular endothelium is an attractive approach to increasing mobility in the elderly and treating conditions exacerbated by decreased blood flow, such as ischemia-reperfusion injury, slow wound healing, liver dysfunction, and muscle myopathies.
IMMUNITY and INFLAMMATION:
There is a growing body of evidence that NAD+ precursors can have anti-inflammatory effects against osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, as well as MS.
NEURONAL FUNCTION:
Numerous studies have reinforced the view that NAD+ levels are key to neuronal function and survival.
In addition to protecting damaged neurons, NAD+ precursors have shown promise in delaying the effects of several neurodegenerative diseases. NAD-boosting regimens prevent and in some cases can reverse neuronal degeneration associated with hearing loss, prion toxicity, retinal damage, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and periph- eral neuropathy.
AGING and LONGEVITY:
It has become clear that a steady decline in total NAD+ levels over time is a natural part of life for all species. This decline, along with the decreased activity of NAD+ signaling proteins, is believed to be one of the major reasons organisms, including humans, age.