NAD+ Therapy: A Powerful Aid for Recovery and Detoxification 

RECOVERY SPOTLIGHT: Oasis Recovery Center Talks about NAD+

One more thing to love about Asheville, North Carolina, aside from the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Biltmore Estate, and some bluegrass music, is a recovery center that is “holistic, dynamic, creative, experiential, individualized, and mindfulness-based.” 

NAD+ Therapy: A Powerful Aid for Recovery and Detoxification

In a world full of contrast, challenges, and discomfort, it is the seeking of new solutions that constantly propels us forwards, towards more of everything we desire: more freedom, more relief, and more health and well-being.   

There are as many solutions in this world as there are problems, because for every problem or physical manifestation of vibrational energy, there is an equal energetic creation of its opposite.  

Light has a shadow, north has a south, disease has healing.  The world of 3 dimensions, is a world of polarity.  All this is to say: it comes as no surprise that as the challenge of addiction presents specific elements of suffering and discomfort, new avenues of healing, with new refined specifics of ease and comfort, are constantly being formulated and discovered. 

One such treatment form is called NAD+ Therapy. Is it a miracle drug? not exactly.  Does it offer relief and healing that to some might seem rather miraculous? Absolutely.  Because that is what has been called for from the realm of suffering.  And when there is a call, there is an answer.  

This is an avenue that bypasses some of the lengthy and torturous experience of detox. It is a method to more efficiently reverse the damage of repeated drug abuse, on a cellular level. It is an avenue of healing for the body and psychosomatic system that comes with more ease and flow.  

What is NAD+? 

NAD+, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, is a naturally occurring co-enzyme that is essential in the creation of energy in the body. It is a “helper molecule.” It is found in every cell of the body, involved in more processes than I can name here, processes such as:

• Repairing damaged DNA
• Converting food to Energy
• Supporting cell defense systems
• Coordinating circadian rhythms needed for sleep

…And so much more.  We’ve known about it for some time now, and have even isolated it’s precursor, Niacin for dealing with a fatal disease, Pellagra, that devastated the American South in the early 1900’s. 

But the body does not have an endless supply of NAD+. Or at least it doesn’t endlessly regenerate, if you’re not consistently participating in NAD+ enhancing activities and nutrition.  Some of the activities that enhance the presence of the positively charged NAD+ are: 

• Exercise
• Eating certain fish and mushrooms, or 
• Eating nothing (intermittent fasting) 
• Spending time in heat, but not too much time in the sun

…unless you’re vitamin D deficient, then you want to spend more time in the sun, and maybe supplement with NAD+…

The point is we are complex systems with entire worlds inside of us that collaborate in a myriad of symbiotic reactions to carry out the well-being of life… 

This is unless this well-being gets blocked and interrupted with a myriad of traumatic responses, and unhealthy patterns of existence ingrained in our being.  

Fortunately, we don’t have to consciously understand the intricacies of biology to utilize new findings for our own optimal health and well-being.  

And now, thanks to new discoveries about NAD+, we don’t have to suffer through as much endless rewiring and re-programing, alone, with its lengthy detoxification, and general slow pace of cellular regeneration.  

   

The NAD+ IV Therapy experience

There are a few different approaches to receiving NAD support.  There are supplements to increase NAD+ levels; precursor supplements as well as sublingual drops.  But the most potent and effective method of NAD+ therapy, for the treatment of addiction and alcoholism, is NAD+ IV therapy.

NAD+ IV therapy usually requires one infusion per day for a period of ten days. A trained physician determines the exact mix of NAD+ concoction for each individual. During your infusions, you can lounge, watch movies, play on your phone, eat, or sleep.  

Some have experienced slight side effects, such as headaches, and pressure in the chest, that subside fairly quickly. It is reported that withdrawal symptoms may begin to subside within a matter of minutes, and after 4-8 days of treatment, patients report vast improvement in many aspects of being including:

• Improvement in mood
• increased mental clarity
• increased energy
• decreased cravings

Some reports have shown that withdrawal symptoms decrease by 70-80%! Even skeptics all over the internet have come away believers in the powerful positive effects of NAD+ therapy.  

Of course this doesn’t negate the internal psychological work that must occur; to sit with uncomfortable emotions, find forgiveness and compassion, as well as so much more that is required to fully heal the psyche from addiction and alcoholism.  But it offers a much gentler and more effective beginning to such a path.

So much of what fuels past trauma and built up habits of self-destruction is the momentum of the past, a past that seems inescapable, because it lives in the body, in a myriad of poorly functioning cells, and old neural pathways.  

NAD IV therapy offers an option to bring addicts and alcoholics more fully into a new present; into a clean slate of fully functioning physiology.  It offers those who are tired of being sick and suffering, a chance to reset in a more powerful way than we have known before.  

We live in an intense time, where the world of polarity is strong, the momentum towards sickness is strong, But so is the momentum towards well-being.  And Well-being has a powerful new tool in it’s arsenal.  It is not a sole cure, but it can kick years of built up cellular trauma, that would previously require a more gradual approach. 

NAD+ therapy has the potential to offer a fresher, more powerful now.  And because now is all we have, we might as well experience the relief of that reality in a physical sense as well as mentally. So here’s to a fresh start, and the freedom to feel the freshness.