Popular longevity supplement enters Prohibition Era

Woof. Welcome to the second issue of Long Youthspan, your speakeasy of longevity news.

As you might know, a 'speakeasy' was the name for secret bars during the Prohibition Era in the 1920s. Speakeasies were where people went to get their alcohol after alcohol was prohibited by the 18th Amendment in 1919.

And if you're wondering why I bring that up, it's because today's Long Youthspan issue is all about prohibition. Not prohibition of alcohol, like a hundred years ago, but of a popular longevity supplement. Let's me tell you about it.

What's the news: The FDA says the popular longevity supplement NMN can no longer be sold as a supplement.

The background: NMN is a precursor of NAD+. NAD+ is a molecule that naturally occurs in every cell in your body. It's crucial to a whole host of important bodily processes, and it gets depleted with age.

Oral supplementation with NAD+ doesn't do much. But oral supplementation with NMN does raise blood levels of NAD+, and that's why NMN has become popular among the longevity crowd.

So why did the FDA put its thumb on NMN? It's not because of safety or efficacy concerns. Instead, the FDA statement says NMN cannot be sold as a supplement because it "has been authorized for investigation as a new drug."

Doesn't this smell familiar? To my fine hound nose, this smells a lot like the 2022 FDA plan to prohibit the popular, safe, and decades-old supplement NAC, and to classify it as a drug. That decision raised a big uproar, as well as accusations that the FDA is favoring the profits of drug companies over the health of consumers.

Is NMN so powerful then? Research on that is still ongoing. But predictably, the FDA ban is driving interest in NMN. Helping the interest is the fact that many companies still sell NMN online. As a result, people across the U.S. have been stocking up in anticipation that they might need a prescription to get NMN in the future.

So what specifically can you do now? If the urgency created by the FDA crackdown has you eager to act, the get informed about NMN and decide whether for you. You can start with this thorough but readable article in Nature.

In case you do decide to get your prohibition-era NMN online, you will have to do your own research as to the brand, since I don't have a recommendation yet. If you do settle on an NMN brand, share your discovery with the Long Youthspan team at [email protected]. Thanks in advance.

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Thanks for reading, and see you tomorrow

Let me leave you today with a picture of a young Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Rose was the mother of future U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. She is particularly interesting to the Youthspan Hound for two reasons:

1. Rose was married to Joseph Kennedy, who was rumoured to have made a fortune bootlegging liquor during the Prohibition. Maybe old Joe Kennedy would be in longevity supplements if here were alive today.

2. Rose lived to the age of 104. She was born in 1890, and died in 1995. Was it good genes? Good diet? Maybe supplements? Rose was clearly doing something right.

And it's time for me to take myself for a walk to the dog park. I will be back in your inbox tomorrow, with one of the most promising longevity treatments right now — both in mice and men.