An article in RT entitled “Simple Vitamin Treatment Can ‘Flip the Switch’ on Incurable Genetic Muscular Disease, Researchers Say” suggests B3 Vitamin Niacin can have a powerful impact:

Key Quotes:

“An international team of scientists led by Professor Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara of the University of Helsinki has been working on the development of a treatment for mitochondrial myopathy for years but now, finally, they may have made significant progress. Their not-so-secret weapon? Vitamin B3, also known as Niacin.

Patients with mitochondrial myopathy can often experience cognitive impairment, dementia, nausea, fatigue and frequent strokes, as well as both hearing and significant weight loss. 

Through years of studying rodents with mitochondrial myopathy, the researchers found that certain vitamins interact with NAD+ – a kind of molecular ‘switch’ which can change metabolism modes back and forth between fasting or growth modes. 

By boosting NAD+ levels, researchers delayed disease progression in patients with mitochondrial myopathy, as well as improving patients’ strength and shifting their metabolism closer to normal operation, giving them more energy. The team hopes now to fine-tune this vitamin treatment to promote health and longevity in patients living with mitochondrial myopathy. 

“Our results are a proof-of-principle that NAD+ deficiency exists in humans and that NAD+ boosters can delay progression of mitochondrial muscle disease,” Suomalainen-Wartiovaara said.

She and her fellow researchers previously found that supplementation with nicotinamide riboside (NR) in food delayed mitochondrial myopathy progression in mice.

Full article HERE.

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  • FAQs on taking NAD boosting vitamin supplement Nicotinamide Riboside (NR) can be found HERE.
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