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Reported effects: \"NMN suppressed age-associated body weight gain, enhanced energy metabolism, promoted physical activity, improved insulin sensitivity and plasma lipid profile\". The weight effect was modest: \"The average numbers of percent body weight reduction normalized to control mice were 4% and 9% in 100 and 300 mg/kg/day groups, respectively.\" On survival: \"No statistical difference was detected by the log-rank test in survival of mice over the entire intervention period\". That window ended at 17 months of age, so this was not a lifespan study, and it gives no evidence either way on mouse lifespan. The abstract's closing line, about \"the preventive and therapeutic potential of NAD+ intermediates as effective anti-aging interventions in humans\", is a hope extrapolated from mice, not a human result.\n\nHumans (Yoshino et al., Science 2021, NCT03151239): \"We conducted a 10-week, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial\" in \"postmenopausal women with prediabetes who were overweight or obese\". Muscle insulin-stimulated glucose disposal (clamp) and muscle insulin signaling \"increased after NMN supplementation but did not change after placebo treatment\". Conclusion: \"NMN increases muscle insulin sensitivity, insulin signaling, and remodeling in women with prediabetes\". The abstract doesn't give the sample size or dose. The full text (PMC8550608, which I couldn't store today, so not in the evidence) reports 13 women on 250 mg/day NMN and 12 on placebo, a 25±7% rise in muscle insulin sensitivity, and no change in body composition, blood pressure, or fasting glucose and insulin. ClinicalTrials.gov lists actual enrollment of 25 and no drug phase.\n\nThree gaps:\n1. Species and population: wild-type mice treated from 5 to 17 months of age versus 25 overweight, prediabetic postmenopausal women.\n2. Endpoint: mouse physiology over 12 months versus one human tissue (muscle) insulin measure after 10 weeks. Neither paper measured lifespan, and the human trial measured no aging outcome.\n3. Dose: 100-300 mg/kg/day in mice versus 250 mg/day total in humans. 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