Dr. Abe Malkin
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first heard Nov 2024
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It's not going to overbuild in your body, but you really can't take too much of it.
It's a great question. So I like to think of supplements or any treatment for that matter in terms of precursors versus end products. So if you give your body an end product, like if you give your body testosterone or if you give your body growth hormone, it triggers your body's natural reaction to stop production because you're getting it exogenously.
But NED, because it's an enzyme, it's a precursor, it's fueling your body's production even more. So your body knows what to do with it and to generate more of it. So if you give your body an end product versus a precursor, your body would shut down its production. But if you give your body a precursor, it's actually stimulating it to produce more.
So think about your body is always trying to self-correct. And as you age, part of what causes aging is your body's inability to self-correct. And studies have shown that NAD levels naturally over time decrease. So at the age of 30 or 35, your body starts slowing down its production of NAD. Therefore, it can't self-correct as well.
Additionally, toxins, stress, alcohol, other things that we encounter on a day-to-day basis reduce our levels. So in a perfect world, if we never reduced our production of NAD or plenty of other things that cause aging, we wouldn't age. But the idea is to find out what is causing the harmful effects of aging and replace that in a safe way to slow the effects of aging.
It's a great question. There's a couple of things you can do. So first of all, subjective benefit is benefit. Whether or not you can measure it, there are still plenty of subjective benefits of treatments like this, as there are with cold plunge and with infrared sauna and other things you can do. And it's not that there's one silver bullet that accomplishes everything.
I think they each incrementally help. That being said, you obviously want to have objective benefits as well. So you can check NAD levels. You can check your biological age. That's a very popular test now that there's a couple of different companies that sell.
That tests things like methylation on your DNA strands and essentially measures how close to being pure your DNA strands are from how they were when they were originally created. And that's why you can check your biological age versus your chronological age and see what the difference is. So there are definitely objective measures of aging that people can check.
And guys like Brian Johnson have a large discrepancy between their biological age and their chronological age through all the things that they're doing.
So I think in addition to all the things we're talking about, NAD, niagen IVs, infrared sauna, cold punch, there's a lot of other factors that you can control internally, which make a big difference, like sleep. like lack of stress, like exercise. I know Peter Attia likes to talk about the things that are like non-negotiable and then things you can do that are to supplement your everyday routines.
The non-negotiable stuff, you have to sleep, you have to eat, you have to live a life stress-free. That stuff is extremely impactful. So even people that aren't necessarily doing the infrared sauna and the cold plunge, if they have other good habits, they can look great. So I take that with a grain of salt. I think if you had poor...
habits, and then you did NAD and cold plunge in the foot sauna, perhaps you could balance the two out. But having those core habits at the beginning is really fundamental to having a healthy lifestyle.
I remember you used to start your podcast with this.
And everyone's is different. My non-negotiable is exercise. Like I exercise every single day. If I go a day without exercising, I don't feel well. I know for other people, their non-negotiables is their morning routine or certain or fasting or other types of habits they have. For me, I take a lot of pleasure from work. So work is something that I definitely plan my day around.
But where it comes to staying healthy and staying productive, it's the daily exercise. So whether it's weightlifting or playing basketball or tennis or cardio, that's a non-negotiable for me and something that I know that will enable me to operate at a high level.
And I think to your question earlier about how come some people can look good without doing all the anti-aging treatments that other people do, it goes back to their ability to know themselves and to not miss things that they know will maintain their health. So for me, that's exercise. For other people, that might be a certain diet. For other people, it's getting seven or eight hours of sleep.
I think everyone has to find what uniquely helps them stay healthy and feel good.
I had a period where I was traveling every other weekend. Although now, to be honest, I'm traveling a little bit less and I'm focusing a little bit more on a better routine here in LA. But again, you can live that kind of lifestyle. You can travel as long as you, while you're away, go to the gym, go for a run. I know you don't seem like someone who meditates. I'm not someone who meditates.
But for me, when I go for a run, I get that meditative experience. Me too.
Well, that's why I don't use an aura ring. I used to use an aura ring because some days it tells you not to work out. And I realized for me, that doesn't exist. Like I don't, if I didn't get a good night's sleep the night before, I'll still feel better if I go to the gym.
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