NAD for weight loss

Our body is a magical and mysterious labyrinth of chemical reactions governed by the dictates of our DNA and yes, the daily choices we make.

We all understand that our food choices and exercise affect our body fat levels, but we also need to understand more about our internal chemistry. As we’ve all learned the hard way, fat loss is NOT as simple as calorie input and calorie output!

By focusing on manipulating the edicts of our DNA, we can influence our chemistry to work with us, in our fat loss efforts, not against us.

Our goal: to take the chaos and cacophony that occurs in daily life and orchestrate our chemistry into a beautiful symphony.

We have all felt that there are spoilers lurking to spoil our fat loss efforts, it is true.

Here, we are going to talk about an important one: losing NAD.

Bottom line: NAD allows sugars, fats and proteins to be converted into energy

Research on NAD for fat loss focuses on the various building blocks of NAD, most notably vitamin B3. Milk is a good source of B3. Don’t just take B3 supplements, there are several forms of B3. B3 in higher doses can cause side effects, even though it is a water soluble vitamin, and too much of the wrong form of B3 can be counterproductive in efforts to increase NAD.

NAD (= Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) is in every cell in the body and is an absolute necessity for mitochondrial function – those energy houses or energy producers in our cells.

NAD declines with age, but researchers agree that NAD is number 1 in the anti-aging process, as it dictates turning off genes that contribute to the aging process.

How do we lose NAD?

1. Aging … a normal aging process, is the dissipation of NAD, unless we consciously intervene to raise our NAD levels.

2. Alcohol – It’s also a major culprit for all aspects of aging (no, the resveratrol in red wine is minimal and we can’t rationalize more wine for more resveratrol).

3. DNA alterations from lifestyle, medications … again, unless we consciously intervene and protect our DNA

4. Lack of exercise – sedentary lifestyle – sitting is the new smoking habit

5. Certain foods can lower our levels over time, but certain foods can help increase our levels.

Sirtuines

Sirtuins (also known as longevity genes) are a group of 7 proteins that play a role in aging by regulating cellular health. Sirtuins must have a good supply of NAD. Sirtuins control DNA expression and aging, they manage all things cellular … ouch … if NAD levels are dropping … so is cellular efficiency and productivity.

Fasting, which is often used as an effective fat-loss tool, may be one of the reasons: Fasting has been shown to increase NAD, which activates Sirtuins.

There is great hope in sirtuin research with cancer, metabolic problems, glucose metabolism, HIV, and neurodegenerative disorders.

Clinically healthy but obese people have been shown to have lower levels of NAD / Sirtuin in studies. Calorie restriction has been shown to increase these levels and decrease oxidative stress (see my many articles on OS).

The Sirtfood diet

Yes, there is a Sirtfood diet. It is also affectionately known as “hacking the skinny genes diet.”

Sorry, I’m not voting up, as good as it sounds in theory.

The sirtfood diet combines calorie restriction and “Sirtfoods”. I have no problem with SIrtfoods (except red wine) because they are very good to eat for many reasons: nuts, olive oil, blueberries, coffee, turmeric …

Why do I have a lot of faith in the Sirtfood diet?

Eating enough of these foods to activate Sirtuin’s activity – well, that would not be at all consistent with the calorie restriction aspect of the diet.

I am a big supporter of intermittent fasting for most people, if their doctor agrees that the person is a candidate for intermittent fasting. However, there are a few things to keep in mind about calorie restriction, which is NOT intermittent fasting.

• When your body is calorie-restricted, using its emergency energy stores, or glycogen, it also burns fat and muscle … it’s never good to sacrifice muscle – the definition of nose biting to screw your face!

• The use of glycogen releases the water that was used for storage. This is the “weight of water”.

• In the first week of extreme calorie restriction, only about a third of the weight loss comes from fat, while the rest comes from water, muscle, and glycogen.

• As soon as your calorie intake increases, your body replenishes its glycogen stores and the weight returns immediately.

• The body will often lower its metabolic rate, which no one wants, making it easier to gain weight in the future.

Yes. – We need to support our NAD production. NAD is a necessity for life. IV NAD infusions have been used successfully for several years by athletes to increase performance and recovery naturally, people with addictions to aging, opioids and alcohol, depression and anxiety, energy, PTSD, chronic fatigue, DNA repair and neurodegenerative disorders. Finding more ways to increase NAD and reduce oxidative stress are the true keys to leading a healthy, proactive lifestyle.