Comment · Fri, December 27, 2019
NMN - Worth the money?
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hwtu · 15 points
Hello, is taking NMN worth the money?
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wobuxihuanbaichi · 1 points
This is very interesting information. I'll have to look up many of these terms.
It would be great if you could also test a sample from them. I'm sure that 99.99% of the people who are interested in buying NMN have no idea about what kind of testing needs to be done to accurately measure its purity.
This also confirms that very few people will have the financial means to test it properly. I hope you'll keep trying to find a supplier. I understand that you won't reveal who your supplier is because it's your business, but it'd be nice to know which ones should be avoided. Lyphar is semi-popular here on reddit and it'd help to have someone REALLY test their products.
David Sinclair (and others) has created a lot of buzz around this product recently, but there are no affordable retailers that I know of. I'd happily pay 40-50 bucks a month for this product if the ongoing human trials show efficacy in slowing down aging and I can get it from a reliable vendor.
Sinclair has a huge supply of it at home, but he's been vague about who synthesized it because he doesn't want to promote specific vendors, but I doubt that he bought it from China. There has to be a lab in the US that produces it.
Have you thought about synthesizing it yourself?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
The science always is lagging behind the hype. Hype is easy. Science is not. People want to believe the things they read about improvements, so they write off the difficulties of actually providing pure compounds to test with. You don't know what you don't know until you jump down the rabbit hole. The more rocks I look under, the more shit I find. I'll never run out of rocks to look under, only time and money to be able to doing anything about all of it.
I do not have the facilities to do chemical syntheses at production scale. Frankly nobody does. It doesn't exist here in the US. Even Sigma Aldrich gets their reference standards made in China. The supply chain is so vertically integrated there, there's no way you can do it to the same scale in the US. It just doesn't exist at the moment.