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NAD+ IV therapy and subscription infusion clinics didn't appear out of nowhere — the molecule's real history runs through pellagra, a niacin-deficiency disease that devastated the American South in the early 1900s, and nixtamalization, the Mesoamerican corn-processing tradition that prevented it for thousands of years before anyone knew why. This episode holds the modern NAD+ trend — pharmacy-compounded versus subscription IV lounges — against that historical record, walks through the real structural bridge between ancient corn chemistry and modern infusion delivery, and shares our own experience with early fatigue: what's a normal adjustment response versus when it's a reason to call your provider. We are not doctors — this is history, current research, and our own lived experience, not medical advice.

Ash & Honey: The Root and The Road is hosted by Alexandria Quinn Love, M.A. — historian, formulator, and founder of Ash & Honey Botanique.

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