Robert Fried

Interesting.

But also the energy metabolism problem.

So I take a gram a day every day, but then I vary it.

I up it depending on how I'm feeling or what's going on in my life at that time.

Yeah, your allostatic load, your stress load.

Exactly.

Why would you say it's not smart to take NAD?

Because I know it's kind of trendy.

I don't know if trendy is the right word, but people are doing it, at least here in LA.

And they always say it makes them feel sick.

Every one of them.

It makes them feel sick, and they sweat, and they have headaches.

Today, there are zero studies, and I spend a lot of time reading studies, so does our team, that we know of that show that taking NAD elevates NAD.

NAD is not bioavailable.

It's a very large molecule, and it's a nucleotide, meaning there's a phosphate group on the perimeter of it.

It cannot enter cells.

You inject it into your bloodstream.

It pours through your bloodstream.

It tries to get up into the cells, and all you're doing is creating inflammation.

It doesn't get in.