At Regain Functional Medicine + Aesthetics, we were one of the first offices in the KC metro area to offer NAD+ injections and IV therapy, delivering on our promise to restore function to your body and address symptoms rather than masking them.
You may have been led to believe that aging means declining cognitive function, less energy, and reduced strength. While most people might just accept these as symptoms of the passing of time, our team believes they’re symptoms of deficient vitamin and nutrient levels—and that’s something we can treat.
While NAD+ therapy in Leawood doesn’t halt the aging process (nothing does), it promotes longevity and provides better function for your body. From your head to your toes, and your brain to your heart, all of your cells and organs can benefit from replenished NAD+ levels.
To learn more about NAD+ therapy and how our vitamin and mineral blends can support graceful aging, read this blog.
What is NAD+?
“NAD” stands for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme essential for cellular function, energy metabolism, DNA repair, gene expression, stress resistance, and much more. The “+” sign indicates that it is not carrying a hydrogen atom, meaning it can more readily accept electrons from another molecule to break down and create energy for the body.
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NAD+ Decline
With such a big role in supporting your body’s functions and processes, it’s no wonder that when your NAD+ levels are low, you feel it. As we age, our bodies can’t produce this coenzyme as efficiently, which may be associated with many age-related diseases and conditions, including the following:
- Cancer
- Cognitive decline
- Loss of muscle mass and strength
- Type 2 diabetes
- Metabolic syndrome
- Frailty (the inability of your body to handle illness or injury)
NAD+ therapy has promising potential to slow, and maybe even reverse, some of these age-associated concerns.
Benefits of NAD+
NAD+ therapy in Leawood can help restore your youthful vitality, increasing your energy, promoting better sleep, and enhancing bodily functions.
More Energy
NAD+ supports the mitochondria, the powerhouse of cells. Mitochondria produce ATP, the fuel our cells need for energy. Over time, your mitochondria weaken, causing you to feel more fatigued and less motivated to get up and move. NAD+ helps your cells convert nutrients into energy, helping you feel more lively and vibrant. This therapy also regulates your internal clock (circadian rhythm), which can become out of sync with age. NAD+ helps you sleep better, giving you more energy to take on the day.
Faster Recovery
We’re sure that you know the importance of exercise for maintaining strength and keeping your blood flowing. But what about recovering from exercise? Most people think of resting, stretching, or other methods. We suggest NAD+ therapy. Your muscles have 3 different types of cells, known as myocytes: cardiac, skeletal, and smooth. NAD+ not only boosts ATP production for better energy and performance, but it also initiates and supports cellular repair, including the myocyte in your muscles.
Improves Mental Clarity
When you feel fatigued, whether from a lack of sleep or just an overall “off” feeling, you experience brain fog. NAD+ therapy in Leawood improves ATP production in all of your cells, including your neurons, which are nerve cells that carry signals from the brain and spinal cord. With increased ATP, you can experience a boost in neural activity to clear that brain fog, benefiting your attention span, memory, and mental clarity.
Mental Health Support
When struggling with depression and anxiety, NAD+ can alleviate the symptoms, giving you more energy and better mood regulation for depression, and reducing the excessive worry, fear, and nervousness of anxiety. NAD+ improves cognitive function. This also affects your neurotransmitter function, balance, and production.
Lowered Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, characterized by memory loss, trouble concentrating, mood swings, depression, and sometimes even delusions. NAD+ lowers your risk of Alzheimer’s disease and slows the progression thanks to its ability to improve brain function. It’s also shown to be promising for Parkinson’s disease as well.
Slows Aging and Supports Longevity
NAD+ enhances your cells’ ability to repair themselves and your DNA, which helps to keep your body in optimal shape. This coenzyme protects the telomeres at the end of your DNA strands from being damaged during cellular division, protecting them against heart disease and uncontrolled cell replication which could lead to cancer. While not an antioxidant, it can still reverse the damage done to your cells from free radicals (unstable molecules that can cause cellular and DNA damage).
NAD+ also supports cell regeneration, counteracting aging effects while helping to ensure your cells are healthy and functioning well. In fact, NAD+ therapy in Leawood can even help manage blood sugar and reduce heart disease.
Administration Options for NAD+
Now that you understand the benefits of NAD+, we can weigh your administration options. We offer IV therapy or injections, both of which work quicker and more efficiently than oral capsules.
Because we deliver your NAD+ directly to your bloodstream, it bypasses the digestive system, where nutrients lose potency. Injections and IV therapy deliver far superior absorption rates in a much shorter amount of time than oral supplements.
IV Therapy
For your IV of NAD+ therapy in Leawood, we offer 2 sessions of 1,000 mg of this coenzyme. Each session will take approximately 2.5 hours, so we encourage you to bring a book, music, or some form of entertainment. Alternatively, you can use this time to catch up on some sleep or meditate.
Your provider will insert a thin needle into a vein in your arm, connecting you to your NAD+ infusion bag. IV therapy also increases hydration, which helps your body absorb this coenzyme better.
Injections
You may not have 2.5 hours to spare every 2 weeks, we get it. Life gets busy in Leawood between socializing with friends and family and maintaining the delicate balance between work and the rest of your life.
Selfishly, we would love to see you often, especially to discuss how you’re enjoying the NAD+ therapy in Leawood. However, for your convenience, we also offer an injectable treatment for you to administer in the office or at home. Your provider will teach you how and where to self-inject NAD+. Together, we can discuss a treatment plan to discuss your most effective injection frequency.
It All Starts With a Conversation
The path to more energy, better sleep, and improved mental clarity from NAD+ therapy is easy! It all starts with a conversation. Although we’ve mentioned the symptoms of NAD+ decline, those symptoms could also indicate another internal issue, like a hormonal imbalance. That’s why it’s important to have this conversation, because it allows us to truly personalize your treatment to you. NAD+ pairs well with our hormone replacement therapy or other wellness services like medical weight loss.
During this conversation, we will also discuss your preferences between injections and IV therapy to further develop your plan.
Vitamin Injectables and IV Infusions
Your NAD+ therapy will be given on its own. However, we also offer more vitamin injectables and IV infusions to help further boost energy, improve bone health, support immune function, and more. We may recommend any of the following when you come into our office for NAD+ therapy in Leawood.
For Cognitive Function
Proper hydration improves cognitive function by supporting blood flow and oxygen to the brain. In fact, even as little as 2% of fluid loss can negatively affect your memory, concentration, and mood. Our Brain Boost IV delivers electrolytes like sodium and magnesium to help your brain maintain fluid balance. Along with other nutrients and vitamins like vitamin B12, this infusion also helps to keep you energized and alert.
For Graceful Aging
You can’t prevent the aging process from happening, but you can make it smoother and easier. Injections of glutathione can help keep your skin clear and your body functioning optimally. We also offer a beauty IV that boosts collagen production, which is a protein that strengthens the tissues and organs in your body, including your skin. With this IV, we also recommend trying our HydraFacial Treatment.
Collagen supports healthy cellular regeneration, replacing damaged cells with new, healthy cells. Many of our vitamin injections and treatments help your body produce more of this vital protein. In fact, we offer a collagen induction therapy (microneedling) for full-body skin health. If you’re a new mother, we even offer microneedling for stretch marks.
For Immunity
NAD+ therapy in Leawood enhances your immune system. For extra support, we offer tri-immune injections with vitamins and nutrients like vitamin C, zinc, and glutathione—all of which strengthen your immune system. Not only can this injection help your body fight infection and illness, but you may also notice increased energy levels and more resilience to stress.
For More Energy
Your body’s energy levels rise with better hydration and nutrition because cells depend on them. For targeted increased energy levels, our IV therapy will include sodium, potassium, and vitamins B12 and C. These ingredients help fight fatigue and improve mental and physical energy.
Support Your Body’s Function With NAD+
NAD+ IV infusions or injections will help you feel younger with better mental clarity, more energy, and restored vitality. To find your personalized treatment plan and feel renewed, reach out to our staff! It all starts with a conversation, and we always take the time to truly listen to our patients and understand them.
To get started, you can try our treatment planning tool. Once we receive your submission, a member of our team will reach out with available appointment times and potential treatment plans.
If you’d rather start the process in person, you can request an appointment for NAD+ therapy in Leawood.
