What is the most effective way of boosting NAD+ levels for health and performance?
*IV Ketamine, NR, and NAD+ have been used clinically off-label for decades. They are not FDA approved for the treatment of any psychiatric or pain condition. All medical treatments carry risks and benefits that you must discuss with a doctor at Clarus Health to learn if these therapies are right for you.
NAD+ therapy is a powerful tool in optimizing our health and performance. There are many ways of boosting NAD+ in our body, but only one way is direct and fast-acting. Learn the difference below from Dr. Kaveh.
NAD+ therapy is effective in multiple conditions, including brain fog, fatigue, long COVID, Parkinson's disease, and potentially many other neurodegenerative conditions. Unfortunately, NAD+ is not absorbed well through the gastrointestinal tract, meaning it cannot be taken orally. This is why NAD+ infusions are the most effective way of boosting NAD+ levels in the body.
In our experience, most patients experience relatively rapid improvement in symptoms after just 3-5 NAD+ infusions. While there is great variability in how patients respond to NAD+ therapy, keeping NAD+ infusions close together helps optimize the initial NAD+ load.
After benefits are realized with the initial load, IV boosters can be spaced out weeks apart.
Combining Ketamine with NAD allows for improving the comfort of NAD+ infusions, as well as augmenting its pain relief. Patients with chronic pain, in particular, benefit from the combination therapy of Ketamine and NAD. This may be in part due to NAD's effect on augmenting wound healing.
Many companies market "NAD precursors" to boost NAD levels without IV infusions. These are laudable goals. The original use of these vitamin B3 precursors was to treat diseases like pellagra. Examples of such precursors include:
These oral precursor molecules appear to boost NAD+ levels when taken continuously every day. This is an altogether different approach than the direct IV infusion method of NAD+. Oral precursors have several potential risks:
This is in contrast to powerful, but infrequent, "NAD+ pulses" with IV boosters. Side effects of IV NAD+ are far less frequently reported.
IV NAD+ is the most direct way to support your NAD metabolism. Contact Clarus Health to learn more about our BR+ certified NAD+ therapy in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dr. Kaveh is a Stanford and Harvard-trained anesthesiologist and integrative medicine specialist. He has over 1,000,000 followers on social media and has guided hundreds of patients throughout transformative healing experiences. He is an authority on Ketamine, NAD, SGB, and genomics-guided therapies. He is a continuing medical education lecturer in the Bay Area.
