Codeage · Cellular Longevity · Pillar 03

NMN · Quercetin · Resveratrol · Betaine · B12 · Riboflavin

Six compounds.
One formulation.
Liposomal NMN Platinum.

Six active compounds and a delivery format. This article walks each one — what it is, where it comes from, when it was first isolated — and then steps back to look at the formulation as a whole.

✦ 10 min read✦ NMN · Quercetin · Resveratrol · Betaine

The label,
as a starting point.

Codeage Liposomal NMN Platinum is composed of six active compounds and a delivery format. Each compound is named, in the form in which it appears, and — where relevant — alongside the source from which it was drawn.

This article walks each compound in turn. What it is, where it comes from, when it entered the chemical record. It is a portrait of a formulation, ingredient by ingredient. It is not an interpretation of any research finding, and it is not a description of what the formulation does. Everything beyond the composition of the capsule sits in the broader chemical and biological literature, which the reader is welcome to enter independently.

There is something architectural about reading a label this way. A formulation, in the Codeage sense, is what is on the label — not what the label is read to imply, not what a reader hopes it might mean, but the compounds named in the amounts named. The discipline begins there.

Codeage · Liposomal NMN Platinum · Supplement Facts

The six compounds,
in turn.

NMN.

500 mg · Beta-Nicotinamide Mononucleotide

A pyridine nucleotide. The compound that gives the formulation its name. NMN sits within the family of molecules the field has come to study under the broader heading of NAD+ chemistry — itself one of the more written-about cellular territories of the past two decades.

First synthesized in the 1960s; the compound's profile in the longevity literature grew through the 2010s.

Quercetin.

250 mg · From Japanese Sophora Flower Bud

A flavonol — one of the most-documented flavonoid compounds in plant chemistry. Quercetin is named after Quercus, the oak genus, where it was first identified. In Liposomal NMN Platinum, it is drawn from the flower bud of Japanese sophora.

Isolated in the 1850s. Botanical source: Styphnolobium japonicum.

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Trans-Resveratrol.

150 mg · From Japanese Knotweed Root

A stilbene — a compact aromatic compound consisting of two phenol rings joined by a two-carbon bridge. The trans isomer is the form that appears at meaningful concentration in plants. In this formulation, it is drawn from the root of Japanese knotweed.

First identified in 1939. Botanical source: Reynoutria japonica.

Betaine Anhydrous.

85 mg · Trimethylglycine (TMG)

Three methyl groups attached to a glycine backbone — the molecule sometimes called TMG. Betaine is named after the sugar beet, where it was originally identified. It occurs naturally across a number of common foods, including beets, spinach, quinoa, and whole grains.

Isolated from Beta vulgaris — the Latin name from which the compound takes its name.

Vitamin B12.

250 mcg · As Methylcobalamin

One of the coenzyme forms of vitamin B12. The B12 family was among the last classical vitamins to be characterized — the molecule was first crystallized in 1948, and the full three-dimensional structure was resolved only later. Produced exclusively, in nature, by certain microorganisms.

Crystallized in 1948. Microbial origin.

Riboflavin.

1 mg · As Riboflavin-5-Phosphate (B2)

An active phosphorylated form of vitamin B2. The name combines flavus — Latin for yellow, after the compound's characteristic colour — with ribose, the sugar in its structure. Riboflavin occurs across a number of common foods: dairy, eggs, leafy greens, almonds.

Isolated from milk in the 1930s. Coenzyme form.

The compounds, read
against one another.

The six compounds in Liposomal NMN Platinum do not occupy unrelated corners of biochemistry. Researchers have placed them, across decades, into adjacent regions of the cellular map. NMN sits within the family of compounds the literature describes as precursors associated with NAD+ chemistry. Trans-resveratrol recurs in studies of cellular signalling and the sirtuin family of enzymes. Quercetin appears across the broader flavonoid research. Betaine occurs in the methylation cycle literature, alongside the active forms of B12 and riboflavin — methylcobalamin and riboflavin-5-phosphate — which the methylation cycle requires as cofactors.

This is the broader region of biology these compounds occupy. The research described here has been conducted independently of Codeage and has not involved any Codeage formulation or product at any phase of study design. Findings about a compound in isolation are not findings about a formulation that contains it. The literature on NMN does not become a literature on Liposomal NMN Platinum because the compound is present in the formulation. The map of the broader chemistry is one map. The composition of a particular formulation is another.

Within Codeage Liposomal NMN Platinum, the six compounds are present at the quantities listed on the label. The rest sits in the open scientific literature — which the reader is welcome to enter on the reader's own terms.

Six compounds. One formulation.
Each named. Each at a stated quantity.
A formulation is what is on the label.

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The form,
and what surrounds it.

The formulation is delivered in capsules — three per serving, thirty servings per container. The capsule shell is methylcellulose, a plant-derived polymer that takes the place of gelatin in plant-based encapsulation. The encapsulation incorporates Codeage Helix Liposomal Delivery, a phospholipid layer drawn from non-GMO sunflower lecithin and providing phosphatidylcholine.

Each of these choices is named on the label. The carrier (microcrystalline cellulose), the flow agent (silicon dioxide), the capsule type, the source of the phospholipid layer — all of it is listed in the Other Ingredients line. Codeage Liposomal NMN Platinum is also NSF Certified, which brings the formulation under the audit of a third-party institution outside Codeage. The architecture around that certification — what NSF tests, what it confirms — sits in a companion article in this series.

Two of the compounds — quercetin and trans-resveratrol — are drawn from specific source plants, named on the label. The botanical story of those two plants is also documented separately. The broader Codeage manufacturing standard — cGMP, clean-label discipline, the choice to encapsulate in a plant-based shell — is the subject of a fourth piece. Together, the four articles form a portrait of one formulation read from four different rooms of the same building.

Codeage · Cellular Longevity · Pillar 03

The formulation
this article describes.

Cellular Longevity · 30 Servings · 90 Capsules

Liposomal NMN Platinum.

A formulation of six compounds — NMN, quercetin from Japanese sophora flower bud, trans-resveratrol from Japanese knotweed root, betaine anhydrous (TMG), methylcobalamin, and riboflavin-5-phosphate — encapsulated in a plant-based methylcellulose shell with Codeage Helix Liposomal Delivery. NSF Certified. Formulated without dairy, soy, or gluten. Non-GMO. Manufactured in the USA in a cGMP-certified facility with global ingredients.

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