1 Year on NMN: What Would I Change if I was Starting Today? #14
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Things I would and would not have changed:
· See a doctor or health practitioner, I know that this will not be easy, a lots don’t know about LCHF let alone NMN, and still say things like LDL is your bad cholesterol, with no idea what VLDL is at all, so seek out one that is open to what you are doing
· Would have gone from 0 to 1 gram quicker? Yes, but I only know this now because I did it slowly, there is no official dosage protocol, so we are all still guessing; Hindsight is a great thing and it may be different for you, so start small and work up at a pace you and more importantly your body are happy with
· Blood tests as a baseline, get as many markers checked as you can afford (you know, this is not a bad thing to do anyway), I waited until I was increasing my dose to 1 gram a day; if I were starting again I would do it before day 1
· Have a reliable way to check your biometric markers, if you can, buy a quality scale, my first gym almost doubling their prices overnight and the virus shutting down my second gym certainly wasn’t something I, or anyone, could have envisaged at the start of the experiment
· If you can afford it, have a DEXA scan, possibly the most effective way to measure your bio-metric markers, although be aware you will be exposed to very minor levels of radiation during the procedure
· Find out your biological age, use an Epi-genetic/DNA marker test, blood or saliva. Biometric scales use BMI as part of the formula to estimate the biological age, as you may know I do not hold any store in that antiquated formula
· I would have taken TMG with NMN from the start, although not proven, methylation or depleting our methyl groups is something that we need to avoid
· DNA now sell TMG, £15 (around $19) for 30 grams, again use my discount code ‘MYNMN’ to get 10% off
· I would have added equal amounts of Resveratrol as I upped my dose of NMN, maybe 1 month after I was happy with no NMN side effects, something like this:
22 April: 125 mg NMN*
22 May: add 125mg of Resveratrol
22 June: up to 250mg NMN*
22 July: up to 250mg of Resveratrol, and so on.
So, essentially stagger, the increase in dosage to see if there were any side effects.
The asterisk denotes that the NMN would be taken with at least the same dose of TMG
• A little more research may have made the journey a little less fraught; but then you don’t know what you don’t know
• TMG, it wasn’t until I had been taking NMN for a few months that people, far more in the know than I, alerted me to methylation and the need to take TMG
• Resveratrol v Trans-resveratrol, again it wasn’t until someone mentioned it in the comments section and then David Sinclair confirmed (during an interview) that it must be Trans and not cis-resveratrol. I took cis-resveratrol for a few months before I knew this (this will have affected my results, to what extent I will never know)
• Berberine dose, Purely by luck I started to take one gram of Berberine in lieu of 1 gram of Metformin (as David Sinclair does), before I found out, again from a subscriber that 1 gram of Berberine is roughly equal to 1 gram of Metformin; Info from a Valter Longo video.
• Supplier, To date I have now NMN from 4 different suppliers, the latest be DoNotAge.org – I think that some diligent research on what suppliers to choose, so you don’t run out, maybe have 2 that you trust, that:
• Do show 3rd party test certificates (not will send on request)
• And can ship to your country (this was a big one for me)
· Think about recording, as I did, things that you think may be affected by NMN, actually record them - i.e. sleep, exercise, hunger size etc. Also record things such as headaches, upset stomach etc. also record if they didn’t happen; remember no data is data
· Don't start this with another big change; you may use taking NMN as part of a big life change i.e.
o Take NMN and go carnivore or Vegan
o Take NMN and starting to exercise regularly
o Take NMN and giving up sugar
· I am glad I was happy with my diet and exercise regime; big changes may have altered my Stat’s i.e. doing extra exercise, changing fasting regime etc. would have shown non-NMN triggered changes
· Be aware of potential side effects, sleep issues, upset stomach, extra energy (don’t take at night) etc. Be aware that these things may happen
Pharma grade or Food Grade
· No Grades, there is no food grade, pharmaceutical grade of veterinary grade, there is just NMN, these grade labels are all unofficial and do not meet any official standard
· CAS Registry Number, NMN has a CAS number, go to this website and enter in this number and it will show you all the information about NMN. I was told by a reliable source that, if there were more than 1 type of NMN, it would have a separate number.
· Purity, the % of purity is the percentage of the desired material which is actually in the sample. It is not a standard, there is no standard that allows a company to call it’s NMN Pure, ultra pure, mega pure etc. these are labels made up by supplement companies, mainly to entice you, also to mislead (but within the law).
The decision is up to you, are you happy with 95% purity or must you have 99%+ - Pharma grade, food grade, pure, super pure, ultra-pure are just labels, ignore them, just look at the percentage number, what is the difference between 99.5% and 95.5%, will the extra 4% actually make a difference at the molecular level, who knows? I’m sure the NMN companies, if asked, will certainly tell you ‘there is strong evidence to say it could or it may, it would be safer to take as pure a product as is possible; they don’t know, they don’t care, they just want your orders, they just want your money. Be sure you know what you are paying for, the purity level and not the unofficial label.
· Cost, so basically, it is all down to cost, what can you afford? What purity do you think will have an effect?
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