NAD+ vs Ipamorelin
A cellular cofactor against an endocrine signal — the two answers people give to the same vague question.
Side by side
- NAD+In stock
- Purity
- ≥98%release spec
- Sizes
- 100 mg
- Price / mg
- €0.69 / mg
- IpamorelinIn stock
- Purity
- ≥98%release spec
- Sizes
- 5 mgsold out10 mg
- Price / mg
- €4.40 / mg
Every figure here is read from the catalogue when the page loads. Where a number is not documented — a purity specification we never published, a price per milligram for a vial sold in international units — the cell stays empty rather than being filled.
What you are actually choosing between
These two turn up in the same searches because the question behind them is usually phrased as energy, and that word covers two entirely different systems.
NAD+ is not a peptide and does not signal. It is a coenzyme present in every living cell, a cofactor for sirtuin and PARP enzymes and a carrier in redox reactions — bioenergetics in the literal sense. The research premise is that the availability of the cofactor constrains what the cell can do, and that its supply declines. Whatever is being studied happens inside the cell, without an endocrine step.
Ipamorelin does nothing inside that system. It is a pentapeptide agonist at the ghrelin receptor, selected for growth-hormone release with comparatively little movement in cortisol and prolactin, and its published work is endocrine throughout: a signal to a gland, and whatever the axis does with it.
So the decision is cellular metabolism or the growth-hormone axis. A protocol aimed at one tells you nothing about the other, and neither is a weaker version of it.
Handling is where they diverge most in practice. Both are stored at 2–8 °C, but a reconstituted NAD+ vial has a working window measured in hours where ipamorelin holds fourteen days. Purity, sizes, price per milligram and current availability in the table above are read from the live catalogue.
Both are supplied for laboratory research only. Neither is sold for human or veterinary use.
Both compounds can be shipped today.
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Peptyds supplies these materials for laboratory research only. They are not sold for human or veterinary use, and nothing on this page describes an outcome. All comparisons · Quality protocol