Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay, Secrets of a Plastic

Surgeon, and today's podcast is going to fascinate you.

Everyone who's in the longevity space is learning about NAD.

And I have a really amazing expert with us today, Nicola Conlon, all the way from the UK.

Welcome, Nicola.

Hi, Dr. Kay.

So good to be with you here today.

Amazing. Tell me a little bit about your background in biochemistry and what inspired you to really focus down on NAD. Absolutely. So I'm a scientist

and I actually specialize in cellular aging. So what it is that goes on at the cellular level to drive everything that we

know is part of the aging process that we experience on the outside. And my background was actually

in drug development. So I worked looking at developing drugs that were designed to slow cellular aging with the idea being that

age is our biggest risk factor for pretty much every disease that big pharmaceutical companies

are trying to target so maybe if we could target aging at the cellular level and slow it a little

bit we could have an impact on many age-related diseases.

And that was kind of where I really focused, but I become pretty kind of had a bit of a moment where I thought,

hang on, drug development maybe isn't for me because there are a lot of molecules that actually work

really well that are not actually drugs that are natural molecules that do incredible things in

the body especially when it comes to aging but drugs companies aren't interested in them because

they can't patent them and they can't commercialize them.

So all of these things kind of get put in the bin and don't get given the research that they

deserve. And one of those things is NAD. So I decided that I was going to leave and basically

set up a company that was looking at how we could actually take this incredible

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