I'm confused, you're saying Chromadex will have a monopoly on NR, but then you contradict yourself by saying that Elysium will still be selling it? At the end of the day, if NR is proven to have positive effects, and Chromadex completely stops reseller sales & has a ridiculous price on it's own brand, competitors will come up with other ways to provide NR.
Also, are we expecting significant studies in the next 3 years disproving the effects of NR?
I should have clarified that Chromadex's price of close to $500 a year is if it has a monopoly and keeps its current price. I'd rather get it for $300 a year through HPN or another vendor. I think Chromadex's CEO was being disingenous in spring when he said a few vendors out of the current 40 might still be supplied NR. Yeah, right.
I think NR will be shown to do good things, although we still aren't sure to what extent beyond an increase in NAD+ levels. My point was that there are clearly other compounds in the game including NMN, rapamycin and metformin. Currently NR costs way more than metformin and both seem to be good for the heart. Human trials will provide the necessary details of both compounds, to use heart health as just one example.
Stephan_001 says that manufacturing with a toxin like toulene is a problem but doesn't seem interested that it is in trace amounts that are harmless. There are people who won't eat foods that contain tiny amounts of radiation, way below the FDA "increase of risk" levels, either. Coca Cola has used toulene to make Coke for over a hundred years and the company seems to be doing OK:
From a 5 minute Chemistry World podcast:
"The original formulation of Coca-Cola contained cocaine, as it includes an extract of the coca leaf, but since the early 1900s toluene has been used in a process that removes the cocaine from the coca... ... ... And as the substance that keeps the coke out of cola, it’s a molecule for which we can all be thankful."
Edited by bluemoon, 15 September 2017 - 05:22 PM.