During the latest “Reason with Science” podcast, NAD+ expert Dr. Charles Brenner (FAQs) discussed the many sources of NAD+ in our food supply. Here’s what he said about beer and NAD+ boosting vitamin Nicotinamide Riboside “NR” (FAQs) (Reviews):

Beginning at the 37:05 mark below:

Dr. Charles Brenner:

“There’s kind of an urban myth that you get NAD from beer or milk.

So, you do get Nicotinamide Riboside (FAQs) (Reviews) from milk.

The next question you might ask me is: How much milk do I drink?

And the answer is none — because I’m lactose intolerant.

You essentially get NAD precursors from all the whole foods that you eat.

And your body breaks it down further, and then your cells regenerate the NAD.

And the beer thing was a misunderstanding of one of our papers.

So, we engineered a yeast strain so that we could feed a yeast strain Nicotinic Acid or Nicotinamide and we could get a yeast strain to make NR.

And then we claimed in a patent application that if you use this particular yeast strain you could generate beer that had NR in it.

And then some people that didn’t read the paper or the pad very carefully said that beer is a great source of NR.

And it’s not to my knowledge”

HOST:

“Well, it’s an interesting idea.

I don’t know the correlation between alcohol and the NAD intake — how much that would impact…”

DR. Brenner:

“whether that would be offsetting.

Yeah, that’d be kind of cool, right?

Since we’ve shown that the NAD system comes under attack with alcohol metabolism, you’d have some Nicotinamide Riboside “NR” in your beer.

And maybe it’s counteracting…

But I’m not encouraging alcohol use”

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