How to Find the Best NMN for You

Biosynthesis and regulation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD⁺) has recently gained a lot of attention. A systemic decline in NAD⁺ across many tissues is associated with all the hallmarks of aging. NAD⁺ can affect a variety of cellular processes, including metabolic pathways, DNA repair, and immune cell activity, both directly and indirectly.

These cellular processes play a vital role in maintaining homeostasis, but as people get older, their tissue and cellular NAD⁺ levels decrease, and this drop in NAD⁺ levels has been connected to a number of age-related disorders. By restoring NAD⁺ levels, several of these age-related disorders can be delayed or even reversed. Some of the new studies conducted in mice and humans have targeted the NAD⁺ metabolism with NAD⁺ intermediates.

Of these, nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) has been shown to offer great therapeutic potential with promising results in age-related chronic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular issues, cognitive impairment, and many others. Further, human interventions are required to study the long-term effects of supplementing NMN with varying doses12.

Among those hundreds of NMN products and brands online, how to choose the best for you? These are simple steps to find the best NMN:

1. Product safety and hygiene. Make sure the product is produced by a health-authority certified manufacturer. Such certification should be from FDA (USA) or European Medicines Agency (EMA) for Europe. In addition to that, make sure it is also at least CGMP certified. However, cGMP certificate indicates higher standard in health industry.
2. Does it really contain NMN? How’s the purity? Not all NMN products actually contain NMN. Likewise, the percentages are not always correct according to what is promoted. Don’t be fooled by promotions or brochures, but pay attention to the product ingredients as stated on the packaging label.
3. Is it registered on PDR.net? PDR.net (physicians desk reference) is the world’s largest medical reference see a list of pharmacy products that have pharmaceutical standards and can be prescribed by doctors to patients. The products on pdr.net have been strictly selected according to the highest standards in production, hygiene, potency, etc. At the time of writing this article, only 9 (nine) NMN products were registered on pdr.net for prescription.
4. NMN or β-NMN? Further purification will indicate that there are two types of NMN structures: α-NMN and β-NMN. Research has shown that only the β-NMN structure can be effectively converted into NAD+ for utilization by the human body.

There you go, these are simple steps to the right choice of NMN products for you and your family. Have a wonderful healthier you.