NAD+ Booster: Our Newest Weapon For Fighting The Ageing Process.
We’re excited to launch our newest anti-ageing supplement, NAD+ Booster. The two active ingredients – nicotinamide riboside and astaxanthin – are powerful antioxidants, but up until recently, they’ve not been very widely known about. Read on to learn exactly what organic supplements in the UK are and how NAD+ Booster works to fight the ageing process.
What is nicotinamide riboside?
Let’s start by explaining what NAD+ is. Your body creates this essential co-enzyme from vitamin B3 and uses it for critical processes like cellular energy production, metabolism and DNA repair.
Nicotinamide riboside (NR) is one of eight types of vitamin B3. Other types include niacin and nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), which is also commonly found in NAD+ supplements. While all types of B3 can be turned into NAD+, NR is shown to be the most efficient. It can enter the cell as it is and be used immediately, while the others have to undergo a series of processes first. That means NR provides more NAD+ while using less energy.
(If you’re curious about why NR is superior to NMN, we’ve written a whole article breaking it down here!)
What are the benefits of nicotinamide riboside?
NR may help to keep your body in youthful condition at a deep, cellular level, thanks to the increased levels of NAD+. Experts are not sure why, but they do know that NAD+ levels drop as we get older. They suspect that this plays a part in cellular ageing and conditions associated with age, like vision loss, heart disease and dementia. It may also be linked to chronic illnesses like diabetes.
Animal studies have found that raising NAD+ levels can stop or slow age-related decline. That’s possibly because NAD+ stimulates two protein groups called sirtuins and PARPs, which repair DNA damage and keep cells healthy for longer. Sirtuins also regulate your stress response and reduce inflammation, which has many benefits beyond just anti-ageing.
Increased NAD+ may keep your brain healthy, too. Neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are connected to oxidative stress and cellular dysfunction in the brain, but studies suggest that NAD+ can help to prevent this.
Your risk of cardiovascular disease also increases dramatically with age, but studies have found that increased NAD+ can help protect you. One study showed that taking NR reduced high blood pressure in adults, and an animal study found that NR reversed age-related damage to the arteries.
What is astaxanthin?
Astaxanthin is a naturally occurring red pigment called a carotenoid. It’s responsible for the reddish-pink colour of foods like salmon, trout, shrimp, lobster and other seafood, all great natural sources of astaxanthin.
What are the benefits of astaxanthin?
Known as “the king of carotenoids”, astaxanthin is a potent antioxidant that helps to neutralise unstable chemicals called free radicals. When free radicals outnumber antioxidants, they can start to cause harmful oxidative stress and inflammation in your body. This is believed to play a major part in the physical and mental decline we associate with the ageing process, and it’s linked to conditions like:
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- Cardiovascular disease
- High blood pressure
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s
- Macular degeneration
- COPD
- Cirrhosis
- Cancer
- Improving blood flow.
- Lowering oxidative stress in overweight people.
- Lowering triglycerides and raising “good” HDL cholesterol levels.
- Prevent oxidative DNA damage.
- Lower harmful inflammation.
- Keep the immune system strong.
- Boost cognitive function.
- Improve eyesight.
- Protect the cells from free radical damage.
- Help the cells to produce energy more efficiently.
