Justin Bieber uses a coenzyme (NAD) to recover his brain from drugs … and it won't work

The confession came in the series that Justin Bieber Starring on YouTube, Seasons: at age 13 he started consuming cannabis, ecstasy and hallucinogenic mushrooms at such a rate that his team had to sleep beside him to verify that he had a pulse. A disaster. Today, with 25 years is a "clean" and renewed man who hopes to recover with some unorthodox therapies, such as sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber and committing weekly injections of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) To eliminate toxins from your body and reset your brain. The objective? Recover your brain from the damage caused by drugs.

As stated Justin Bieber, people who have had a problem with drugs, when they leave them, have the pleasure centers of the brain in low form. And what does the NAD It is to help repair that part of the brain and recover the pleasure centers. But is it true what the singer says or is someone charging him some expensive weekly injections for nothing?

Let's start by clarifying that nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is a coenzyme present in all cells of the body and has several essential functions in metabolism. But there is bad news for Justin and all those who undergo this expensive treatment for recover your neurons: to date there are no clinical trials conducted on people who demonstrate any benefit.

"Is a coenzyme which is synthesized in cells from simpler compounds. And as for its virtues against, for example, neurodegenerative diseases Like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, there are not even studies in patients. There have been some in animal models, but not clinical trials with humans, ”explains the dr. Pablo Eguia, Member of the Spanish Society of Neurology.

And if you doubt it, the NAD is useless in sick brains, but it has not proven improve memory nor help to solve the jet lag, two other indications used by those who offer it as a treatment for all kinds of ills.

“You have to be very careful to spread supposed benefits of supplements no scientific evidence. In many cases, based on their functions in the organism and in animal studies, benefits are “sold” with these substances. But if you don't have the necessary scientific evidence behind, you can't say they are effective”, Concludes the expert.