Can NAD Injections Give Me More Energy?

Your body’s trillions of cells use nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) to produce energy, repair damage, and communicate with other cells. When your NAD levels run low — due to aging, illness, or disease — you feel it in your own low energy levels.

So how can you boost NAD and give your cells the benefit of this essential co-enzyme? Taking NAD directly doesn’t work; your body needs to create NAD from precursors, such as:

• Vitamin B3
• Nicotinamide riboside
• Nicotinamide mononucleotide

The disadvantage to taking precursors is that they must pass through your digestive tract, which absorbs and dilutes them. And then your body must process them to create NAD.

At Advanced Medical Care, we’re always on high alert to the latest developments and research that can lead to optimal wellness and longevity. At our offices in Queens or Brooklyn, New York, our experienced providers may recommend NAD+ injections that go straight into your bloodstream to give your cells more energy.

What NAD does in your body

NAD is a natural molecule that helps your body make energy. When your body breaks down nutritious food, NAD carries off the electrons and transports them into your cells.

One place that NAD deposits electrons is in your mitochondria — the ancient bacteria that live inside your cell’s nucleus. The NAD helps your mitochondria produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is your body’s main source of energy.

If your NAD levels drop due to aging or illness, they can’t carry as many electrons to your cells. Therefore, your mitochondria don’t have the ingredients they need to produce ATP, and your energy levels drop.

How NAD+ injections help

When you receive intramuscular injections of NAD+, it goes straight to work repairing and energizing your cells. There’s no dilution by the gastrointestinal tract, and there’s no processing time to turn precursors into NAD. 

Whether you’re dealing with fatigue and sluggishness due to aging, disease, or chronic stress, NAD either halts or reverses the effects of degeneration. Multiple studies have shown that NAD can:

• Repair enzymes
• Remove senescent cells, also called “zombie” cells
• Enhance youthful epigenetic responses
• Remove damaged mitochondria
• Produce healthy, new mitochondria
• Reduce systemic inflammation
• Promote autophagy — getting rid of old cellular proteins and other debris
• Rejuvenate stem cells
• Increase adaptability to stress

Even if you’re primarily interested in NAD+ injections to enhance your energy production and vitality, you might experience other benefits.

For example, because NAD helps cells function at a more youthful level, your skin looks more vibrant, tighter, and healthier. You may also notice that your brain works faster, instead of feeling weighed down in a fog, another benefit of increased energy and mitochondria that continually produce ATP.

What happens when you get NAD+ injections

After cleaning and preparing the injection site, we administer NAD directly into a muscle. This means we can give you a higher dose, and it allows the molecule to go to work immediately. You should be under medical supervision for intramuscular NAD+ injections to ensure that you receive the correct dose safely.

We inject into muscle tissue, not fat, due to the increased number of blood vessels available. Common injection sites are your upper arm, thigh, or buttocks.

You may experience some discomfort, as muscle fibers are also rich with nerves. As with all injections, you probably feel some post-injection soreness for the next day or two.

Your personalized energy boost

Depending on your current fatigue level, you may need a series of treatments to reach your energy goals, although you will feel a significant difference after your first treatment. Once you feel as energized as you wish to, we put you on a maintenance schedule so you can continue to feel vital and youthful as you move forth in life.

During your consultation, we discuss your goals and symptoms. We then devise an individualized treatment plan so you know what to expect and when to follow up.

Are you ready for more energy? To supercharge your mitochondria and produce more ATP thanks to NAD+ injections, schedule an appointment with the team at Advanced Medical Care today.