Understanding NMN’s Role in Increasing NAD+ Levels
NMN and NAD+: The Energy Connection
- Imagine NAD+ as a battery that powers your cells. As you age, that battery loses its charge.
- NMN acts as a way to recharge that battery. It’s a “precursor,” meaning it’s a step along the path to creating NAD+.
- Your body has a “salvage pathway,” which is a process it uses to recycle and create NAD+ from various sources, including NMN.
- By providing NMN, you’re giving your body more of the raw material it needs to produce NAD+.
- There is also research indicating that there is a transporter of NMN that allows it to be directly absorbed into cells, which also increases the amount of NAD+ that is produced.
