While obvious to some, many consumers often wonder whether the supplement they’re taking is positively impacting them. If the latter is you, you might find the following useful. During an appearance on “The Story of a Brand” podcast, Chromadex (sellers of NR) CEO Rob Fried had some advice for those taking vitamin supplement Nicotinamide Riboside “NR” (FAQs) (Anecdotes) and wondering if it’s working:

At the 51 minute mark:

“What we hear all the time is…

I’m dreaming. I remember my dreams. This is something we hear all the time.

I started taking it and all of a sudden I’m dreaming a lot and remembering my dreams.

My hair and nails are growing very fast.

These are things we hear all the time, constantly.

And, I’m living a more energized world.

My workout levels are higher.

My recovery is quicker.

I’m less sore.

What I would recommend to people is take note of the things in your life that are performing less well today than they did 10, 20, 30 years ago.

Is it sleep?

Is it shoulder pain?

Is it elbow pain?

Is it your workout levels?

Is it your general tiredness?

Are you forgetting where your keys are?

Does it seem like I’m forgetting things that I didn’t used to forget?

Make a note of what those things are, and see if you can turn it into a metric of some sort — like number of hours of sleep, number of times per week that I consider I forgot something.

Or, if I work out hard, am I sore 2 days later.

It’s different for every person.

But try to quantify it.

Focus a little bit less on how you feel.

Try to break it down into something measurable.

Create a metric out of it.

And, then take Tru Niagen for 2 or 3 months, and then re-measure the same metric.

And that’s where you’re going to find an improvement”

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