Peter Attia· MD
NAD is completely ubiquitous throughout the body and um it is absolutely essential for the most important chemical reactions that happen in the body. You cannot undergo redux reactions, metabolic reactions without NAD.
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NAD is completely ubiquitous throughout the body and um it is absolutely essential for the most important chemical reactions that happen in the body. You cannot undergo redux reactions, metabolic reactions without NAD.
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So is a critical intermediary metabolite. It it has two big roles. First is it plays a key role in redux reactions. Again we've talked about these reaction reduction oxidation anytime electrons need to move around. Exactly. So it's it exists in two form NAD and ADH. Um and it's critical to intermediary metabolism. Uh there are more than 600 of these enzymes that use NAD in the whole metabolism.