Last year we carried some news on one of the latest wellness trends doing the rounds. NAD + was the stuff, and mushrooms seemed to abound in it. But consider this little snippet Stalker read recently:
“His new book is an extension of this. But this time he’s tackling the pseudoscience being marketed at people wanting to live longer. He reels off what he sees as easily disprovable cons: for instance the fad popular among celebrities including Jennifer Aniston for injections of a type of molecule called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD+. It is hailed by its advocates as a pivotal anti-ageing supplement but Newman is dismissive, pointing to a paper published in the academic journal Nature Metabolism last month which found that natural levels of the NAD molecule within the blood did not change with age. “The whole idea of this thing was that it was a cause of ageing,” Newman says. “And if it doesn’t change the older you get, it’s not a cause of ageing — it doesn’t do anything.” Snake oil and the fountain of youth spring to mind!
