Kevin Toman, DVMFounder, Helping Pets Live Longer · Veterinary Longevity Specialist

Restore Your Older Pet's Energy with NMN

8 Apr 2025 · 2 min

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In this short YouTube monologue, Dr. Kevin of helpingpetslivelonger.com introduces NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide) as a precursor to NADH, the essential co‑enzyme that powers mitochondria in cells. He explains that NADH levels naturally decline with age in both humans and pets, leading to reduced cellular energy and the aging process. Dr. Kevin argues that oral NMN is the most practical and effective way for pet owners to restore NADH levels in their older animals, contrasting it with intravenous NAD injections that are more suitable for humans. He describes the two NMN product formats offered by Helping Pets Live Longer (HPLL)—capsules and bulk powder that can be sprinkled onto pet food—and provides his professional email (drkevin@thelongevityvet.com) for further questions. The video serves both an educational purpose (explaining the science behind NMN) and a promotional purpose (highlighting HPLL’s NMN products and encouraging contact).

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Well, hey you guys, welcome to helpingpetslivelonger.com. I'm Dr. Kevin and I'm glad to see you. So today we're going to talk about NMN for our pets and let's get to work. What is NMN, you ask? Well, it's a precursor molecule. It's a building block to a compound called NADH, which lives within the mitochondria, or little energy factories within our cells. And that NADH is in fact essential to cellular energy production. If you don't have enough NADH, the cells wither and die. And so because studies have shown that our cellular NADH levels drop as we age, or as our pets age, there's an awful lot of logic to trying to boost those NADH levels back up to normal levels as we age and prevent that withering and dying, aka aging, of our cells. And that's the premise behind NMN. NMN is the single best oral way to increase NADH levels within our pet's cells. Now, if you're a human, you can also take NAD injections intravenously, but that's a little bit more problematic for us pet owners. So we here at, at HPLL, we carry both a capsule form and a bulk powder form that makes it very easy for you to sprinkle NMN over your pet's food. If you have any questions about NMN for your older pet, or for that matter, any other component of their healthcare, please feel free to reach out to me at drkevin@thelongevityvet.com. That's just D-R-K-E-V-I-N at thelongevityvet.com. We are all in this together, and I will help you if I can. Thanks again for visiting HPLL today, and have a great day.