NAD IV Therapy for Weight Loss and Metabolic Function

Overview

• Metabolic function or metabolism is the sum of all chemical reactions in the body that convert food into energy.
• NAD is the second most important coenzyme in your body – responsible for ensuring hundreds of chemical reactions go on smoothly.
• NAD and metabolism are closely related – NAD plays a crucial role in metabolic chemical reactions in the body.
• As we age, NAD levels fall, negatively affecting all the metabolic chemical reactions associated with the coenzyme.
• NAD IV therapy introduces NAD directly into the bloodstream, making it bioavailable to cells that need it to function.
• Drip Hydration NAD IV therapy offers a personalized delivery service that brings the treatment to you, helping you conveniently enjoy the numerous benefits of NAD.

What is Metabolic Function?

Understanding the relationship between NAD and metabolism first requires an understanding of the metabolic function or metabolism. So, what is metabolism? Metabolism is a collection of chemical reactions that occur within a living organism and encompass a broad array of reactions that both create and utilize various chemical components within the body.

Metabolism is essential to life. When an organism’s metabolic function stops, that organism dies. Also, if that metabolic function malfunctions, the organism begins to undergo a series of failures, what in humans we call disease and old age.

In humans, two types of metabolism occur – anabolic metabolism and catabolic metabolism.

• Anabolic metabolism involves the creation or generation of molecules and other compounds such as proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates. Creation of fat reserves is an example of anabolic metabolism.
• Catabolic metabolism does the opposite – it breaks down compounds to create energy for the body to use. The breakdown of fat into molecules that can pass into cells and help power cellular function is an example of catabolic metabolism.

One important component of the metabolic function are enzymes and their coenzymes. Think of enzymes as the currency of metabolic function – cells use them to “buy and sell” molecules. Coenzymes, on the other hand, are like credit cards – they help make it easier for cells to utilize enzymes. One important coenzyme is nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD).

What is NAD?

NAD is an important coenzyme found in all mammals. In importance, NAD is only second to adenosine triphosphate (ATP). However, both are involved in reactions involving the generation and transfer of energy within cells. NAD’s importance stems from the fact that it is one of only a few coenzymes that ensure cells have enough energy to perform at optimum levels.

As we age, NAD levels fall, and energy available to cells also falls, causing cells to struggle to maintain optimal performance levels. When this happens, cells begin to malfunction and die, leading to disease and signs of old age.

But, if NAD for energy is so important, why doesn’t the body keep producing more of it? It’s not clear why NAD levels fall as we age. Stress, unhealthy lifestyle habits, and cellular damage may contribute to this natural decline. However, scientists have found that although NAD levels fall as we age, boosting NAD levels can restore cellular function.

In other words, boosting NAD can help turn back the body’s biological clock to a time when the body was young and vital. Cells that were dying or malfunctioning can become reinvigorated operate at optimal levels.

What makes the relationship between NAD and metabolism so important?

NAD and Metabolic Function

The sum of all metabolic chemical reactions in the body is called basal metabolic rate or BMR. Although popular as a dieting metric, this term is even more important when it comes to how the body functions. When BMR is depressed, the body struggles to create and supply energy to cells. When BMR is healthy, cells have enough energy to function.

NAD, as a crucial metabolic coenzyme, is at the heart of metabolic function. As various metabolic chemical reactions occur in the body, functional groups of atoms within molecules are transferred from one state to another. NAD and other coenzymes act as group transfer intermediates.

Each set of metabolic chemical reactions is handled by one coenzyme, which works together with its associated enzymes. As such, NAD is responsible for ensuring that hundreds of metabolic chemical reactions in the body proceed smoothly. As a principal coenzyme, the body’s metabolic function is affected by any changes in NAD levels.

When NAD levels fall, a chain reaction of failures occurs, affecting the metabolic function and the body’s ability to create and utilize energy. Issues that result from low NAD levels include increased free radicals, fat build up, and cellular degeneration. When NAD levels fall, the body requires an external intervention. NAD IV therapy is one such intervention.

NAD IV Therapy

NAD IV therapy is a cutting-edge treatment that uses IV therapy to deliver pure NAD for energy straight into the bloodstream. Boosting NAD levels in the body can help lead to signs of age reversal, with heightened metabolic function as one of the central characteristics.

Getting NAD for energy through an IV is the most effective way of delivering NAD to cells. Other methods such as tablets and syrups must go through the gut, which impacts the speed and amount of NAD that ends up in the bloodstream.

Aside from direct supply to cells, NAD IV therapy also provides a cocktail of other helpful cofactors and nutrients that help further rev up your metabolism. Composed of a base of sterile saline IV fluid, NAD IV therapy also contains the following ingredients:

• NAD: In just the right quantity to effectively boost the body’s metabolism.
• Vitamin B12: Associated with improved nerve and blood cell health as well as ensuring enough healthy red blood cells are produced.
• B-complex vitamins: A variety of vitamins known to increase energy, boost immunity, and support other body functions.
• Vitamin C: One of the safest and most effective supplements available, vitamin C helps prevent everything from cardiovascular disease to eye disease to reducing skin wrinkling.
• Glutathione: Known to reduce oxidative stress (free radicals) and cellular damage, improve insulin resistance, fight symptoms of some disease like psoriasis, Parkinson’s disease, peripheral artery disease, among others.

What Are the Metabolic Benefits of NAD IV Therapy?

These are some of the potential metabolic benefits of NAD IV therapy:

Can Boost Cellular Metabolism

As explained earlier, metabolism is the sum of all chemical reactions in the body that convert food (calories) into energy to keep your body alive. NAD IV therapy increases the bioavailability of NAD at a cellular level, helping your cells effectively and efficiently convert food molecules into energy. NAD also plays a crucial role in helping mitochondria, the power factories of the body, function optimally.

Can Increase Resting Metabolism

Basal metabolic rate or BMR is a measure of how much energy your body burns while at rest – that is, how much energy your body needs to stay alive. NAD IV therapy helps rev up your BMR, so you burn more calories even while you are resting or sleeping.

Can Reverse the Effects of Aging on Metabolism

As the body ages, it burns less fuel while at rest. Science has discovered that a human’s BMR begins to decline as early as eighteen years of age. While it is not fully understood why this happens, declining NAD levels may infer a connection between the two. Boosting NAD levels may turn back the cellular clock, reversing aging and restoring higher levels of metabolic function.

Can Help Burn Fat

Your body burns fat for fuel. However, burning fat ironically requires lots of energy. If your metabolism is depressed, there isn’t enough energy to burn fat. This explains why older people struggle to lose fat: their metabolism has slowed down significantly. NAD can boost metabolism, helping provide enough fuel to burn fat reserves to power the rest of the body.

Can Help Keep Weight Off

In weight loss, losing weight is half the battle – keeping the weight off is the other, harder half. Fat comes back mostly because all the activities that burned fat (dieting and intense exercise) stop. NAD IV therapy can help boost resting metabolism or the energy you burn while at rest, an essential factor required to keep fat off after a weight loss regimen.