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Well, let me ask you this, from a dietary standpoint, what are the best food sources that help supply NAD? Well, for the NAD story, there are specific parts of foodstuffs, I would guess you would call it, like nicotinic acid, vitamin B3. The vitamin B3 is the is the principal source we have, but we can make it as well. So you don't need to take NAD or even NAD precursors like nicotinic acid. You can make it. Can you make enough of it? That's a different story. Mm. Okay, that's where the whole supplement industry got excited. Maybe we don't have enough NAD, and we need to boost the natural mechanisms we have in the body to provide for that. And that's probably true, because we can find in certain conditions that our NAD levels are not what they're supposed to be. They fall. In fact, they fall with aging. Why do they fall with aging? Well, there a You know, there are a lot of reasons for that. Uh we we think we know. But if they're low, if the NAD levels are low for any reason, you cannot efficiently make ATP.
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