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NAM NR and NMN all use different absorption pathways and have different pitfalls. There's good reason people stopped using NAM once there were alternatives ava
by ck2 4y ago
NAM NR and NMN all use different absorption pathways and have different pitfalls.
There's good reason people stopped using NAM once there were alternatives available, topic well outside the scope of HN but not hard to google.
You cannot change the conversion process/rate, at least not with current knowledge, it is rate limited by multiple biological processes.
I strongly caution to use google scholar and not blogs/youtube for information.
Also everyone should be aware because of the high cost there is A LOT of counterfeit NMN out there, never buy unknown brands/sources.
- LinuxBender 4y agoYou cannot change the conversion process/rate, at least not with current knowledge That is precisely the wall I have hit but I am a stubborn old bastard and will not give up.
- ck2 4y agoThere are PhDs with multi-million dollar grants who cannot do it. I mean let's say they did somehow figure out an enzyme to speed it up, it would likely cost more than just supplementing more of the desired precursors. There might be some obscure food or supplement that does what you want but it will cost more because it will be rare and then you've got the problem of huge consistency between batches because all manufacturing in China/India is the wild-west. Easier to just take the precursors which are mass produced so prices slowly coming down, though covid/inflation/supply-chain threw it a curve.
- balfirevic 4y ago> never buy unknown brands/sources All NMN brands are unknown to me - how do I judge?