What is NAD+ and Why the Body Needs More?
Nava Health provides personalized NAD+ treatments to help boost your energy, mental clarity, and overall well-being. Our expert team has helped clients achieve optimal cellular health since 2014, promoting a healthier, more vibrant you.
Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+) is a coenzyme derived from vitamin B3 that exists in every cell of the body, playing a vital role in maintaining cellular energy and metabolic balance. Essentially, NAD+ supports important functions such as metabolism, slowing down the aging process, enhancing athletic performance, and aiding in brain health and repair. Emerging research highlights a strong connection between NAD+ levels and the way we age, both physically and mentally.
As one of the key components for improving mitochondrial efficiency, NAD+ helps boost the function of these cellular “powerhouses.” Mitochondria are responsible for transforming nutrients such as proteins, fats, and carbohydrates into energy-rich ATP molecules. NAD IV therapy plays a key role in aiding the liver to break down fats for energy production and assists in creating ATP, a primary energy source for cells. When cells lack this vital energy source, it can contribute to issues such as chronic fatigue, anxiety, depression, addiction, weakened immunity, muscle pain, memory difficulties, sleep disturbances, and more.
Although your doctor can tell you that we naturally produce NAD+, like most things, it reduces with age or certain factors can accelerate this process, including stress, sleep problems, environmental factors, and drug use. Intravenous use of NAD+ activates enzymes in the bloodstream called “sirtuins” which promote the “good” aspects of your genes which facilitates staying healthier longer and reducing the side effects of aging. NAD IV treatments also repair and lengthen telomeres, the protective caps at the end of your DNA, which slows how quickly your body ages.
Benefits of NAD+:
- Improve focus and mental clarity
- Reduce inflammation and pain
- Improve muscle recovery
- Improve many chronic illnesses
- Increased metabolism
- Increased energy
- Prevent and correct DNA damage
- Increased anti-aging benefits
- Improve symptoms of depression, stress, anxiety, and PTSD
Brain Health
Keeps your brain in top condition, boosts your memory and cognition, and improves mental clarity by improving neurological function at the cellular level.
Anti-aging
Reverses the effects of aging by preventing and repairing DNA damage that causes fatigue, decreased athletic performance, and age-related disease.
Fatigue
Provides your cells the tools they need to support healthy energy levels, improve your endurance, boost your mood and vitality, and enhance brain function.
Metabolic Function
Supports healthy metabolic function to help you lose weight, build healthy muscle tone, increase energy levels, and improve your overall athletic performance.
NAD IV Therapy is the Most Effective Way to Get NAD+
NAD IV therapy delivers pure NAD straight into the bloodstream and cell tissue, allowing a 100% absorption rate (no NAD loss in digestion).
Effective solutions for many medical conditions like:
- CFS
- Fibromyalgia
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Neurodegenerative diseases like CTE
- MS
- Parkinson’s disease
- Chronic fatigue
- Headaches
- Diabetes
- Attention deficit
- Alcohol and drug addiction
Here’s How NAD+ Works:
Muscle Recovery
Restoring cellular levels of NAD+ will keep cells young and resilient, which translates to increased energy, improved muscle recovery and less soreness after strenuous workouts. NAD+ is found in every cell of your body and plays a critical role in regulating cellular metabolism and energy homeostasis. An NAD+ Therapy program is a natural way for athletes to enhance their athletic performance.
Reduces Pain
NAD+ promotes healing from the inside out and improves many of the painful and debilitating symptoms of chronic illnesses. Low NAD+ levels negatively impact processes such as cellular energy production, DNA repair, redox reactions, circadian rhythm, and immune response.
Mental Health
NAD+ therapy at our clinic may help alleviate symptoms related to depression, stress, anxiety, and PTSD. As we age, oxidative stress tends to rise, contributing to degenerative changes that can result in both physical discomfort and emotional challenges. By replenishing energy at the cellular level, NAD+ could enhance essential cell functions, particularly within the brain.
Anti-Aging
Research shows that as we age, levels of NAD+ decline substantially due to lifestyle, diet, stress, toxins, or a host of other factors. Because of its key role in many biological processes, when NAD+ levels are low, we are more susceptible to neuro and muscular degeneration. It compromises our cardiometabolic health and our capacity for cellular repair and resiliency. In short, declining levels of NAD+ compromises our cells’ ability to create energy, resulting in accelerated aging and an increased risk of disease.
Brain Health
Clients who have undergone NAD+ infusions at our holistic health center often report improved focus and enhanced mental clarity. Cognitive decline is influenced by factors such as neuro-inflammation, amyloid-beta plaques, mitochondrial damage, and elevated oxidative stress. NAD+-dependent enzymes, known as sirtuins, may support brain health by addressing amyloid plaques, aiding DNA repair, and reducing inflammation. They also promote neuronal function, which may help prevent or delay mild cognitive decline.
Treatment Protocols:
- Clients must meet with a physician or medical provider to ensure suitability.
- For optimal results, we recommend receiving 3-6 gram doses
- IV sessions may be scheduled once per week or more frequently (up to 2 sessions per
week). - First IV – 250mg or 500mg, subsequent IVs of 500mg until client reaches the total grams of NAD desired. Clients may choose to increase the number of sessions if smaller doses are preferred.
Contraindications:
No known contraindications. Pregnant women or lactating women should NOT receive NAD treatment. Clients with kidney and active liver disease and congestive heart failure shouldn’t be given IV’s. Our specialists can help determine if this form of functional medicine is right for you.
Possible Side Effects:
Due to extra ATP, (Adenosine Triphosphate) which is fuel for your cells throughout your body, NAD+ treatment must be infused over 2 hours minimum or it can cause increases in physiological activity including but not limited to:
- Chest pressure
- Stomach pain
- Chills
- Flushing
If any side effects occur, the drip rate is too fast and should be slowed until the side effects subside. Side effects will present or subside almost immediately when finding the proper drip rate.