My wife and I were debating the use of supplements yesterday.  We got on to NAD+ and 🤔:

People with high X (cell health) have high Y (NAD+).

If we measure Y to determine X, does supplementing Y raise X (cell health) or does it just increase Y (the thing we measure -> NAD+). 

Does anyone know? 

cc: @bryanjohnson

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Also supplementation doesn’t take into account things like bioavailability of something, the form it’s being consumed in, as we are finding out when adding a mineral to a food doesn’t necessarily mean you will absorb it the same way if you were consuming a food rich in the mineral

This was a huge part of our convo. 

It’s the biology version of “a great product with poor distribution is a failed product”.

Maybe the way the food is constructed is what affects out GI systems and naturally we know the best way to break it down at each part of the GI, how we manipulate drugs and do things like enteric coats 