Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. I am going to go over today a supplement that I have been asked about a lot, which is called NMN. And it seems to be all over TikTok at the moment. I don't have TikTok, so I don't know, but it seems to be pushed a lot and I've got

loads of questions on it. So I thought I'd cover all of them in one go. So I'm going to go over,

what I'm going to go. So I'm going over what it is, how it works, what the claims are around it,

what the current evidence shows. And then whether you should take it or not, and then finally my

own personal thoughts on whether I would take it or not or whether I would be suggesting it to

clients. Okay, right. So what is it? NMN, which stands for nicotinamide mononucleotide, which I will not say again because it's a bit of a mouthful.

So I'll keep it to NMN.

Is a form of vitamin vitamin B3, which is a good way.

A good way to say that would be bitumen.

Anyway, vitamin B3 and people are really excited about the

anti-aging properties that might potentially come from the NMN supplement. Now, the proposed

mechanism of action is via an increase in NAD plus levels. When you take the NMN supplement, it's converted to NAD in your body. And this is an enzyme

that is involved in biological processes and its levels decline with age, right? So it's quite a key

enzyme in many of the processes that occur in every single cell within your body.

I am going to go into a little bit more of the science and the depth on that, on EIQ for the graduates.

If you're not on EIQ, you're going to miss out and you should be.

But on a large level, like overview, like this is what it does.

It helps with a lot of the processes that go on within the cell.

And when you have decreased levels of NAD, which tend to occur as you age,

these are associated with things like increased information,

increased oxidative stress,

hypertension, cognitive decline, and a reduction in your ability to clear glucose.

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