During an interview last week, City of Hope’s Dr. Charles Brenner (FAQs) was asked about his daily supplement regimen. Of course, one would assume his regimen includes  NAD+ boosting vitamin supplement Nicotinamide Riboside “NR” (FAQs) (Reviews). Here’s what he said:

“I do take Tru Niagen (NR) and was the first human to do so.

The use case is that our NAD system comes under attack from conditions of metabolic stress including sunlight, reactive oxygen species, infection, inflammation and potentially aging itself.

NR safely boosts human NAD and lowers inflammatory markers.

It’s being clinically tested against long COVID, fatty liver, mild cognitive impairment and more.

I have IP interest and have an advisory and equity interest in ChromaDex as you know.

I know a lot of people try intermittent fasting or restrictive diets.

For sure, optimal health depends on keeping our energy intake in balance with our energy expenditure.

For me, that means lots of physical and mental activity.

I’m not an IF guy.

I had breakfast at 6 am when I got up and I’m likely to have dinner around 6 or 7.

These are the eating practices that work for me and the types of activities I do.

Plants have hundreds of great compounds in them but you won’t see me supplementing with any phytochemical.

Resveratrol has no value to people.

Pterostilbene raises low density lipoprotein cholesterol in people, etc, etc.

Metformin is for diabetics.

It makes no sense to me to depress my mitochondrial activity.

Rapamycin scores nicely in mouse longevity assays but doesn’t seem to help monkeys and in small studies it looks as though it depresses the benefits of aerobic exercise in people.

Don’t smoke.

Avoid alcohol and drugs for which one is not prescribed.

Keep guns out of the house.

Get vaccinated.

I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know”

Related:

  • Dr. Charles Brenner (FAQs)
  • Nicotinamide Riboside “NR” (FAQs) (Consumer Reviews)
  • Nicotinamide Mononucleotide “NMN” (FAQs)
  • NAD+ IV Drip Therapy (FAQs)

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