NAD+ IV vs injection

One is a session in a chair with a nurse attached to it, priced per session and dosed per session. The other is a vial and a box of syringes you use at home, priced per month and dosed per dose. Both are sold as NAD+. Neither price means anything next to the other until you have the milligrams and the cycle for both.

What each one is actually buying

The drip

Chair time, a nurse, the consumables, and a room to sit in for as long as it takes. The NAD+ is a line item inside a service. That is why a single session can cost more than a month of the other thing without either figure being unreasonable — they are not paying for the same list.

The injection

A vial, syringes, and usually a consult wrapped into a subscription. The labor is yours. What you are buying is the drug, the fulfillment and the prescription, and the supervision line is simply not on the invoice because it is not in the product.

Each of those has its own page here: what an NAD+ IV session is and what a NAD+ injection is — what is in each purchase, and what has and has not been measured in people for either one. This page is only about setting their two prices beside each other.

The comparison trap

A clinic quotes per session. A telehealth seller quotes per month. Put those two figures side by side and you are comparing a unit price to a subscription, which tells you nothing. To compare them at all you need three things from each seller, and a surprising number of pages give you one or two:

• Milligrams per dose or per session. The unit the product is actually sold in.
• How many of those the price covers. One session, or eight doses in a month, or a package of six bought up front.
• The billing cycle, in the seller’s own words. Per session, per month, per package. A “from” figure is a floor, not a rate, and the two are printed differently on this site’s board for that reason.

With all three you can put both sellers on the same denominator. Without them you are guessing, and the guess will usually favor whoever wrote the larger number in the smaller font. The board on the comparison page carries the route, the milligrams and the cycle for every row precisely so this arithmetic is possible.

The claim this page will not make

Sellers on both sides argue that their route delivers more of what you paid for. IV pages point at going straight into a vein; subcutaneous pages point at steadier exposure over a week. Those are claims about what reaches circulation and how quickly, they are the load-bearing claims in the entire category, and this site has not sourced them. So it does not repeat them, in either direction, and you should treat a seller that states one as a fact without a citation the way you would treat any other unsourced number on a checkout page.

What can be said without a source is duller and more useful: the two routes differ in who is in the room, how often you do it, what happens if something feels wrong, and what the invoice covers. Those differences are real, checkable on the seller’s own pages, and they are usually enough to decide.

Where the nasal spray and the capsule sit

Two more things get sold into the same search results. A nasal spray,which is a third route and which most of the sellers on this roster with a nasal row price without ever saying how many milligrams a spray delivers. And an oral capsule of NMN or NR, which is a precursor the body converts rather than NAD+ itself — a different molecule, a legitimate category, and not the thing an IV-versus-injection comparison is about. This site keeps the capsule on the same board, marked, so that its price is never quietly read as a cheaper version of the drip.

How to choose without a clinical claim

You are picking a delivery model before you are picking a molecule. A drip is an appointment: someone else handles it, you travel to it, you pay per occasion. An at-home injection is a routine: you handle it, it is cheaper per occasion, and the responsibility for noticing a problem is yours. Which of those two you can actually sustain for three months is a better predictor of how this goes than anything on either seller’s landing page.

A prepaid supply also creates a different commitment from buying a single appointment. Our bmiMD NAD+ review explains its multi-month terms and why stopping the next renewal is a separate question from refunding a prepaid term. Check both before comparing an injection subscription with a clinic session.

Related research

• NAD+ injection side effects

  Which questions are worth asking depends on the route, and on whether the seller states a dose at all.

• How often you take NAD+

  Frequency is usually a billing cadence before it is a clinical one. Here is how to tell which you are looking at.

• What NAD+ injections are

  A vial and syringes on a subscription, not a clinic drip. What sellers charge for one, how few state the milligrams, and what has been measured in people.

• Do NAD+ patches work

  No published study has measured NAD+ getting through human skin from a patch. What is sold anyway, and the search that says so.

All research on this site