How NAD Supports Alcohol Recovery | John Gillen

Name: How NAD Supports Alcohol Recovery | John Gillen
Uploaded: 2024-09-24T16:00:46+00:00
Duration: 5 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this interview excerpt, the host asks why NAD+ helps with addiction. The expert, John Gillen, explains that people with alcohol dependence are…

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In this interview excerpt, the host asks why NAD+ helps with addiction. The expert, John Gillen, explains that people with alcohol dependence are severely deficient in NAD+, the biologically active form of vitamin B3 (niacin). This deficiency can lead to subchronic pellagra, a historically fatal but curable disease caused by niacin deficiency. Gillen emphasizes that restoring NAD+ levels is crucial because the body requires adequate B3 to function properly, implying that NAD+ supplementation could be a key component in alcohol recovery.

if you could share with my audience why or how is NAD+ helping with addiction.
If I look at alcohol addiction primarily, now alcohol, you know, alcoholics are extremely deficient in NAD+ to the point where they suffer from what's called subchronic pellagra. Now, pellagra is a fatal disease a curable disease, I may add. But 150 years ago, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people were dying. These people were dying because of a B3 niacin deficiency. NAD is the biological active form of B3 niacin. So niacin is an essential vitamin that we must— that the body must get