3.It may help / treat covid 19
…A new preclinical study found that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) infection of cell lines, infected ferrets, and a deceased patient’s lung dysregulates nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) synthesis and utilization .
We started by looking at the effect of a related coronavirus that infects mice. It disturbs the gene set that controls cellular NAD . Moreover, we showed that within 12 hours of initial infection, the virus greatly depresses levels of NAD, the central catalyst of metabolism.”
Our data says that the innate immune defense against viral infection depends on NAD and that it may be more effective at higher NAD,” says Brenner.