We’ve heard some incredible stories here at RaisingNAD from consumers impacted by vitamin supplement Nicotinamide Riboside “NR” (FAQs) (Reviews). Who can forget Mark’s story about his successful battle with epilepsy? What about Shelly overcoming RLS? The anecdotal evidence appears endless. Now comes a 77-year old physician named Ted with a remarkable story about better skin, the return of natural hair color, and increased strength (please consider sharing your own NAD+ supplement experience below):
TED’s Story (originally submitted HERE):
“77 year old physician
36 months on Niagen
Average dose 300-600 mg
Often let capsule dissolve in my mouth hoping for less liver inactivation
Stronger physically by many metrics probably because of significantly reducing post exercise delayed muscle soreness
Faster hair and nail growth
Hair color went from white to somewhat blondish (my original color)
Improved skin
Golf, tennis, online time chess games improved.”
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Dennis L. Smith
My wife is a 67-year-old stroke survivor of twenty years, with severe physical and cognitive disabilities. I have cared for her at home all this time, with occasional stays at skilled nursing facilities for rehab. I started her on Tru Niagen—300 mg daily to start—in the fall of 2018, about a year after I had begun my own NR regimen. In October 2019, she suffered a fall in our home, and after being hospitalized for a week with a broken ankle, was discharged to a skilled nursing facility for long-term rehab, given she was non-weight bearing and I could not care for her by myself at home in that condition. In the SNF she was no longer on Niagen, and after a month was put on an atypical anti-psychotic, without obtaining informed consent, ostensibly to deal with her agitation and disorientation overnight when I was not at the facility.
Atypical anti-psychotics (here, Zyprexa) come with an FDA-mandated “black box warning” that they are specifically contraindicated for patients like my wife, i.e. over 65 with mild dementia. Basically, they wipe out your immune system, and without the immune defense provided by Tru Niagen, my wife became highly vulnerable to viral infection. By the week before Christmas she had contracted pneumonia, for which she was treated the next two weeks into the New Year. I found out about the Zyprexa in early January and began bringing Niagen once again into the facility, administering 600 mg. daily without informing the nursing staff. She fought off infection throughout January, during which she made little progress in rehab due to the effects of the Zyprexa.
After taking her to see her own internist (NOT the nursing home doc who had prescribed the Zyprexa), that physician worked with me to wean her from the antipsychotic (one listed side-effect of which is pneumonia). I kept giving her 600 mg. of Niagen daily as she tapered off Zyprexa in February as I prepared to take her home. All the while, Covid-19 was stalking the nation, seeding pods of infection across the U.S. generally and in skilled nursing facilities particularly. I brought my wife home on Feb. 29, sick with a severe upper-respiratory infection and unrehabilitated due to the pernicious effects of the anti-psychotic. The state of Iowa would not test her for Covid-19, however, because, although she was weak and had an upper-respiratory disease, she was not running a fever, which early on in the pandemic was a firm criterion for testing. She was off Zyprexa totally by mid-March. I nursed her back to health over the next month or so, administering 600 mg. of Tru Niagen daily.
By the end of March, the nursing home from which I had discharged my wife was totally engulfed in Covid-19, one of the five worst hotspots in the state of Iowa, with most residents and staff infected with the disease. In the absence of testing, I cannot be certain that my wife contracted Covid-19 in the facility, but given the speed of transmission there immediately after her discharge, it’s likely Covid was there before her discharge. If I had not resumed my wife’s Niagen (while weaning her from the drug that was fighting it), I’ve no doubt whatever that, given her several co-morbidities, my wife would have died in that place, along with many others who did. My only regret is that I ever let her Niagen lapse before she was admitted to rehab. That will never happen again.