Dr. Peter Attia: Supplements for Longevity & Their Efficacy

2896.971 - 2917.908 Dr. Peter Attia

Most of what NAD is doing is operating as a cofactor for electron shuttling. That's the NAD, NADH, electron transport, electron accept, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, not consuming NAD, just using it to pass electrons back and forth. But then over here we have this other category where we use NAD as a substrate. It gets broken down, and that's what the sirtuins are doing to repair DNA.