{"id":30955,"date":"2016-10-11T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T23:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/first-human-clinical-trial-for-nicotinamide-riboside"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:29:50","slug":"first-human-clinical-trial-for-nicotinamide-riboside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/first-human-clinical-trial-for-nicotinamide-riboside","title":{"rendered":"First human clinical trial for nicotinamide riboside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-human-clinical-trial-for-nicotinamide-riboside.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Vitamin B pills\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-human-clinical-trial-for-nicotinamide-riboside.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"375\"><b><center>(credit: iStock)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the first controlled clinical trial of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicotinamide_riboside\" target=\"_blank\">nicotinamide riboside<\/a> (NR), a newly discovered form of Vitamin B3, researchers have shown that the compound is safe for humans and increases levels of a cell metabolite called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicotinamide_adenine_dinucleotide\" target=\"_blank\">NAD+<\/a> that is critical for cellular energy production and protection against stress and DNA damage.<\/p>\n<p>Levels of NAD+ (first discovered by biochemists in 1906) diminish with age, and it has been suggested that loss of this metabolite may play a role in age-related health decline.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/first-human-clinical-trial-for-nicotinamide-riboside\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/first-human-clinical-trial-for-nicotinamide-riboside<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(credit: iStock) In the first controlled clinical trial of nicotinamide riboside (NR), a newly discovered form of Vitamin B3, researchers have shown that the compound is safe for humans and increases levels of a cell metabolite called NAD+ that is critical for cellular energy production and protection against stress and DNA damage. Levels of NAD+ [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49751,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30955\/revisions\/49751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}