NMN & NAD+ Drops

NMN is a direct precursor to NAD+, the coenzyme every cell uses to turn food into energy and to run its own repair machinery. NAD+ falls with age in cats and dogs as it does in people; supplying NMN gives the body the raw material to keep those levels up, supporting memory, awareness and normal brain function.

Nicotinamide riboside reaches NAD+ by a different enzymatic step than NMN, so carrying both keeps the pathway supplied even when one route is saturated. It occurs naturally in milk, in quantities far too small to matter at a functional dose — which is why it is here in measured form.

Citicoline supplies choline and cytidine, the raw materials for acetylcholine and for the phospholipids that build cell membranes. Acetylcholine is the signalling molecule most closely tied to attention and recall, which is why citicoline sits on the sharpen side of the formula rather than the fuel side.

DHA is structural rather than fuel: it is built into the membranes of brain and retinal cells and keeps them flexible enough to signal cleanly. Ours is grown from algae rather than pressed from fish, so there is no marine aftertaste and nothing is taken out of the ocean to make it.

Phosphatidylserine is a phospholipid concentrated in the membranes of nerve cells, where it helps them hold their shape and pass signals cleanly. Levels drift down with age, and it is among the better-studied actives for memory and learning in older animals. Ours comes from sunflower and soy lecithin.

Vitamin E is the formula’s own bodyguard. The omega-3 oils that do the protecting are themselves easy to oxidise, and d-alpha tocopherol is the fat-soluble antioxidant that keeps them intact — in the bottle on the shelf and in the animal that swallows them.

Medium-chain triglycerides are absorbed straight into the bloodstream and converted to ketones — an energy source brain cells can draw on when glucose handling becomes less efficient with age. In the bottle they do the quieter job of carrying the fat-soluble actives.

Lion’s mane is a culinary mushroom studied for hericenones and erinacines, the compounds behind its reputation for supporting nerve health. It is the newest active in the formula and the one we are watching most closely as the companion-animal literature fills in.