Is NMN And Niacinamide The Same

In recent years, the β-Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) industry has achieved rapid development, but the regulatory order of the NMN market has not been improved at the same time. The weak market supervision has made the NMN market more and more chaotic, and many fake and shoddy products are rampant. The phenomenon of "selling dog meat" has been frequently reported, which has greatly affected the impression of the NMN industry and NMN products in the minds of the public.

As major NMN companies strengthen the publicity and control of genuine products, the distinction between true and false popular science, and after the majority of consumers buy from official channels, the prevalence of counterfeit and shoddy products has been effectively curbed, but other ingredients are used to pretend to be NMN, and use the name of NMN. There are still many products sold under the guise of the market. Many local small workshops often pretend to be NMN with substances such as niacin, niacinamide and even flour to make huge profits. Among them, nicotinamide has become the main substance posing as NMN because it is the easiest to exploit the loopholes in the machine algorithm of the e-commerce platform.

So what is the relationship between niacinamide and NMN? Why do these merchants use niacinamide to pretend to be NMN?

Like β-nicotinamide mononucleotide, nicotinamide is the precursor of coenzyme NAD+. If the full name is written in Chinese, people can easily find that there is a close connection between the three. NMN, the full name of nicotinamide mononucleotide, the full name of NAD+ is nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, the name is very long, and it is difficult to remember for non-professionals, so it is generally referred to as nicotinamide. Referred to as NAM.

Because both are NAD+ precursors, they can be converted into NAD+, and nicotinamide and NMN have overlapping parts in names, which are relatively similar, so some businesses will use nicotinamide instead of NMN. Of course, the extremely low price of nicotinamide is also an important reason for its flooding in the market. There have been rumors that NMN raw materials are only a few cents a gram, but in fact it is nicotinamide, not β-nicotinamide mononucleotide.

Long-term use of nicotinamide will inhibit the activity of human longevity protein, leading to liver poisoning, if it is a pregnant woman to take, it is likely to cause fetal malformation, which is now recommended that pregnant women try not to use cosmetics as one of the main reasons, a lot of cosmetics contain nicotinamide this component.