Is NAD+ / B Complex legal in Canada?

Injectable NAD+ mixed with B12, and sometimes B6, sold as a clinic drip or as a vial for shots under the skin. No study has tested the mix. By weight, the B12 barely registers. In a typical 500 mg NAD+ drip with a 1,000 microgram B12 add-on, B12 is about 0.2 percent of the active ingredients. That is roughly one B12 molecule for every thousand NAD+ molecules. The one trial of a vitamin drip against a plain fluid drip (lactated Ringer's) found no clear difference on anything it measured.

Start with the point that runs through every NAD page on this site. Raising a number in the blood is easy to show.

How it works: NAD+ is a helper molecule cells use to make energy. It also feeds enzymes called sirtuins, PARPs and CD38.

Approval history: Not approved as a blend. B12 shots are approved for B12 deficiency. NAD+ is not an approved drug. It reaches patients through pharmacy mixing and drip (IV) clinics.

Allows a drug to be sold by issuing a Notice of Compliance and a Drug Identification Number (DIN). A compound that is not allowed for sale cannot legally be sold for use in people. Bringing in prescription drugs for your own use is also limited.

The legal category above is how The Longevity Archive reads Health Canada, Health Products and Food Branch listings for NAD+ / B Complex on the reviewed date. It is not a legal opinion. Rules change. Bringing a compound into the country, prescribing it and owning it can each be treated differently. Check with the agency before you act on anything here.

Check Health Canada directly

Whether NAD+ / B Complex is banned in sport is set by the World Anti-Doping Code and by military rules, not by its legal status in Canada. Before you compete or get tested, look up NAD+ / B Complex by name on the Prohibited List, or look up a named product in Global DRO. Under the World Anti-Doping Code, category S0 bans, at all times, any drug-like substance that meets two tests. No other section of the List covers it. And no government health regulator anywhere has a current approval for it as a treatment in people. Many substances that are approved somewhere are banned by name in another section. So approval does not mean a substance is allowed in sport.

• WADA Prohibited List
• Global DRO (check a named product)
• USADA (US athletes)
• Operation Supplement Safety (US service members)

The rules you compete or serve under decide this, not this page.