NMN

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NMN

Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) is a derivative of the B-vitamin niacin that dramatically improves health and longevity by serving as a precursor to NAD+, a compound that plays a crucial role in energy production, metabolism, and gene expression in the body.

Category
Vitamin B Derivative
Molecular Formula
C11H15N2O8P
Mechanism of Action
NMN is converted into NAD+ in the body which plays a vital role in energy metabolism and maintaining proper cell functioning.
Evidence Grade
B

Other Names

  • β-Nicotinamide mononucleotide
  • Nicotinamide ribotide

Primary Benefits

  • Promotes Healthy Aging
  • Supports Cardiovascular Health
  • Enhances Energy Metabolism
  • May Improve Cognitive Function

Recommended Dosage

Adult Dosage 250-500mg per day
Maximum Dosage Up to 1000mg per day

Side Effects

  • Nausea
  • Fatigue
  • Headaches
  • Diarrhea

Precautions

  • Not recommended for children
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women should consult with a doctor

Interactions

  • May interact with blood pressure medication
  • Can interact with diabetes medication

Key References

  • Yoshino, J., Mills, K. F., Yoon, M. J., & Imai, S. (2011). Nicotinamide mononucleotide, a key NAD+ intermediate, treats the pathophysiology of diet- and age-induced diabetes in mice. Cell metabolism, 14(4), 528-536.
  • Mills, K. F., Yoshida, S., Stein, L. R., Grozio, A., Kubota, S., Sasaki, Y., ... & Imai, S. I. (2016). Long-term administration of nicotinamide mononucleotide mitigates age-associated physiological decline in mice. Cell metabolism, 24(6), 795-806.
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver
Exploring Peptides, Hormones, and Therapies for Health and Wellness 1:54:28 0
“I take sublingual NMN each day. It makes my hair grow ridiculously fast. I've done the control experiments; it's still just n of one, it's just me.”

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Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver
Exploring Peptides, Hormones, and Therapies for Health and Wellness 1:55:38 0
“NR can reduce inflammation, is that right? Yeah, okay, less data that NMN can reduce inflammation at least lack of human studies.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 0:57 0
“Should I take NR? Should I take NMN? What should I do with Metformin?”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 18:59 0
“NR doesn't seem to be as effective as NMN.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 22:52 0
“When we supplement with NMN, when NMN is given to organisms in the lab, what's happening?”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 24:18 0
“Shin Imai showed that it actually was pretty good at slowing down the effects of aging, but he stopped the experiment because he ran out of NMN.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 24:36 0
“We've reported that out in the scientific community. They seem to be younger, having better activity, better mitochondrial function. They run further. The lifespan looks promising. We've done it once and they do live longer on NMN.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 24:49 0
“The doses are out 400mgs per kg.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 26:46 0
“I know a fair bit about the effect of NAD boosters in humans because I'm helping a group that is actually doing clinical trials at Harvard Medical School and they've been giving a molecule that's similar to NMN to subjects for many years now.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 27:32 0
“Yoshino et al. in 2021 showed increase insulin stimulated glucose disposal.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 31:07 0
“Alcohol dehydrogenase needs NAD. And so what's probably happening is when you wake up with a hangover, you lack NAD, your liver is depleted, and if you take NMN or NR, you can raise those levels back up, get your liver working again, and get rid of the excess alcohol.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 1:05:09 0
“I take one gram of NMN every morning along with my resveratrol. The reason is in humans we know that that doubles NAD levels which is important because someone my age has half the levels of NAD than I did when I was 20.”

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NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4
Exploring Longevity Molecules and Health Benefits for Lifespan Extension 1:06:42 0
“I went on NMN and things were somewhat rectified.”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 1:07:32 0
“when the mice took it their endurance got better”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 1:09:06 0
“he's on NMN and resveratrol, mainly”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 1:10:12 0
“what i do is listed on page 304 of my book so that's the cheat sheet of lifespan”

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Breaking Bad Habits & Living Your Best Life – Dr Andrew Huberman (4K)
Optimizing Health and Functionality Through Sleep and Rhythm Management 2:23:00 0
“I do take sublingual nmn but it's very important but I don't take it to extend my lifespan I take sublingual nmn and by the way I have no affiliation to any supplement company that sells nmn I take it because it has for me in my experience again this is not a randomized control trial this would not meet Nan criteria Lane Nan criteria uh it causes my hair to grow very very fast which is odd but other people I know who've taken it report the same effect Nails very thick and gives me a lot of mning energy”

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Breaking Bad Habits & Living Your Best Life – Dr Andrew Huberman (4K)
Optimizing Health and Functionality Through Sleep and Rhythm Management 2:23:35 0
“nmn is a precursor to NAD; NR is the precursor to nmn so there's a phosphate group that gets removed.”

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Breaking Bad Habits & Living Your Best Life – Dr Andrew Huberman (4K)
Optimizing Health and Functionality Through Sleep and Rhythm Management 2:24:13 0
“when I take sublingual NN my hair grows faster, my nails grow thicker and faster... and I have more morning energy.”

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Breaking Bad Habits & Living Your Best Life – Dr Andrew Huberman (4K)
Optimizing Health and Functionality Through Sleep and Rhythm Management 2:24:31 0
“I don't take it because it's very expensive relative to NN and even though I probably could afford it I didn't subjectively feel much.”

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Autophagy & Longevity Scientist Reveals Worst Longevity Products & BS Claims – Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
The Science of Transforming Inputs for Enhanced Value and Efficiency 12:05 0
“There are really kind of four NAD precursors that people think about oral or orally available NAD precursors there's nicotenomid monucleotide NMN and nicotenomid ribocide NR those are the two that get the most attention.”

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Autophagy & Longevity Scientist Reveals Worst Longevity Products & BS Claims – Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
The Science of Transforming Inputs for Enhanced Value and Efficiency 12:43 0
“NMN and NR cost about 100 times more than nicotinamide and niacin so if you really think you want to take NAD precursors sure you're welcome to buy the expensive stuff that gets broken down to the cheap stuff in your gut but there's no real good reason to do that.”

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Ask Me Anything: Lowering Cholesterol and Optimizing VO2max
Optimize Cholesterol Levels and Enhance Cardiovascular Health Naturally Without Limits 1:16:06 0
“I wouldn't recommend taking NMN or NR because there is no real data related to human health benefits, and there might be harm.”

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333 ‒ Longevity roundtable—the science of aging, geroprotective molecules, & lifestyle interventions
Unlocking Longevity: Advances in Aging Research, Prevention, and Healthspan 2:42:37 0
“There's at least one study in mice that giving NMN to aged mice causes kidney inflammation and potentially kidney pathology.”

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204 – Centenarians, metformin, and longevity | Nir Barzilai, M.D.
"Factors Influencing Longevity and Healthspan: Genetics, Hormones, Lifestyle, Environment" 1:38:58 0
“i probably get an equal number of questions near about the following three things: metformin, rapamycin, or some combination of nr nad or nmn”

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204 – Centenarians, metformin, and longevity | Nir Barzilai, M.D.
"Factors Influencing Longevity and Healthspan: Genetics, Hormones, Lifestyle, Environment" 2:42:15 0
“i started taking nmn at one point and what i noticed is my rem sleep has improved a lot and i stopped it and my rem sleep wasn't so good i restarted it and my rem didn't get better again”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 0:54 0
“today we are going to discuss the so-called NAD pathway this is a pathway that's received a lot of attention and recent years as a potential Target for improving lifespan that is for living longer today we discuss the various molecules in this pathway and the various approaches to increasing NAD which is the end Target goal of anyone that's trying to augment the NAD pathway so to speak so for instance we talk about taking NR versus nmn versus direct infusions or even orally taking NAD and we compare them in terms of both what's known known and what is not known about their ability to get into cells and any efficacy they may have for either longevity or health span”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:39 0
“Dr at and I compare and contrast the literature on this again both research and clinical literature and we discuss whether or not he or I take NAD nmn or NR and if so or if not the reasons for that we also each go through our own supplement regimen which of course reflects what we do believe can potentially have an effect on health span and or lifespan”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:05:31 0
“I'll go on record now saying that I take NMN and in some cases I will take NR and NMN and I observe a very clear positive effect but I don't think it has anything to do with extending lifespan.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:07:49 0
“I've taken NR in capsule form, I've taken NMN typically in powdered form where I put it sublingually under the tongue.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:10:40 0
“the single most let's say Salient to me anecdotal data on taking sublingual NMN is that it makes my hair grow really fast, it makes my nails grow really fast and I do feel an increase in energy.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:11:36 0
“NR can cross the cell membrane directly very easily there's no obstacle to NR getting into cells okay and NMN cannot because of that extra phosphate group.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:13:01 0
“Sublingual NMN is also a bit of a laxative so there all these and I say that you know somewhat chuckling but you know some people say it makes them feel better well is that because you're you know evacuating your bowels a few minutes or hours later and then you feel less bloated and you have more energy.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:17:43 0
“my understanding is that there are some studies that have explored the role of supplemented NR maybe nmn as well but certainly supplemented NR for sake of lowering inflam to offset some of the negative effects of time zone shift alcohol um I have a few others listed here um overnutrition.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:23:49 0
“there was a statistically significant increase in glucose disposal with insulin infusion but it was quite small”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:25:19 0
“I'm questioning whether or not I'm wasting my money taking NMN or NR.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:28:13 0
“this one study found somewhere between a 60 and 80% reduction in basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:29:16 0
“nmn reduce the risk that significantly of sell and basal carcinomas I think you could make a case that if you're an individual who's at risk for those things clearly I'm not right like I've never had a sunburn in my life I mean I I don't work outside so it's like it wouldn't matter to me but there are a lot of people for whom either either their skin color makes them more susceptible or their their um you know their pastimes or or frankly their their their line of work makes them more susceptible you know maybe there is a case to be made for it there if if you could if you could literally take 60 to 80% of your risk away on S Mr basell carcoma that could matter”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:31:05 0
“most people considering supplementation to augment the NAD pathway are going to default to either taking INR or taking nmn”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:33:34 0
“NR can cross the cell membrane directly NN cannot okay but you can just CLE the phosphate group right exactly um NR they claim I'm not this is not my claim but they claim that NR is quote unquote 25% more effective than NN in raising whole blood NAD levels but I'm guessing that's milligram for milligram right okay so then you just adjust the milligram dosage a little bit and so on”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:34:55 0
“I don't even think it's worth arguing about whether nmn or NR is more bioavailable because to your point you can sort of adjust the dose and I trust that whatever you're taking NR or nmn you are getting some NR into the cells and that's being converted to NAD.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:36:31 0
“the supplement nmn suddenly the FDA decided that it should not be sold over the counter anymore because there was a clinical trial initiated on nmn which essentially makes nmn a drug for clinical testing and thereby can't be classified as a supplement any longer.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 1:39:21 0
“I do think NR and nmn are probably um there has been some voice around the idea that NR could increase the risk of cancer right and the experts in this area like Charles brener have pushed back hard on that arguing that the studies were not done well.”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 2:05:11 0
“I take my nmn and my NR and I feel a little bit of a boost in energy but I can't say that it's so significant that I feel like I can Sprint back and forth Just spontaneously”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 2:11:29 0
“I take NR and NMN with not a lot of religious adherence. If I ran out I might not buy it for a while and the only observed effect for me is this accelerated hair growth”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 2:25:32 0
“everything we have talked about on this podcast today whether it be NR NAD nmn thumin magnesium this supplement that supplement all of that stuff while potentially mattering I would put in the category of was the Titanic serving LOB Lobster or steak”

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Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy
Supplements, Lifestyle, and Strategies for Longevity and Optimal Health 2:27:41 0
“I don't take these supplements full stop. I passionately do not believe they do anything for me and why would I waste time money anything on something that I really don't believe makes a difference.”

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Harvard Professor REVEALS How To SLOW & REVERSE AGING | Dr. David Sinclair
Unlocking Secrets to a Longer, Healthier Life Through Aging Science 38:11 0
“so my father has been on the same regiment as me resveratrol for over a decade the red wine molecule he's been on metformin longer than me because he had he was a borderline diabetic type 2 diabetic and he's also on a man now”

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Exercise Scientist’s Masterclass On Longevity – Dr Mike Israetel
Factors and Strategies for Enhancing Longevity and Quality of Life 1:24:17 0
“I take nmn nicotinamide mononucleotide and um I was my clip appeared in some other longevity podcast where I went on a longevity rent on one of my other videos and this longevity expert dude who seemed like a sharp guy knew what he's talking about he kind of clowned me on the nmn thing so I took another look through the literature and uh turns out actually there is some very decent data for nmn having some uh longevity effects and actual mechanistic effects as well”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 59:55 0
“I take a precursor to NAD called NMN and the body uses that to make the NAD molecule in one step.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 1:00:14 0
“if you take NMN for about two weeks, you'll double on average, double your NAD levels in the blood.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 1:02:50 0
“we take a gram of NMN every day.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 1:04:35 0
“make sure it's white, crystalline NMN, and that to me, it tastes like burnt popcorn.”

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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging
Strategies to Slow Aging and Optimize Health for Longevity 1:05:11 0
“The levels of NAD go up in the morning in our bodies naturally. Our bodies actually have a cycle of NAD, it's not steady.”

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