
Arc-1 review
Dose stated, price steep
Publishes the exact protocol in its dose selector — three 100 mg doses a week — at $299.99 a vial. Near the top of the category, and the word compounded never appears.
Our verdict
Arc-1 does the rare thing and the common thing at once. The rare one first. Its dose selector reads "3 - 100mg Doses per Week (6ml vial)" — a full protocol and a vial size, which few sellers here will give you. Now the common one. The word compounded never appears on that page, and neither does the FDA, while its own semaglutide and tirzepatide are both labeled "Compounded". The vial is $299.99, or $239.99 recurring. That is more than The Edit and Vytora at $249, Obu at $219 and Yucca at $215. You are at least paying it for a stated quantity, which Remi Meds at $349 will not give you.
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At a glance
- Category
- NAD⁺ injections
- Format
- Injection · Nasal spray
- From
- $299.99/vial
- Dose published
- Yes
- Prescription
- Required
- Compounded
- Yes — not FDA-approved
- Pharmacy
- Not named
- Labs
- Not stated
- Availability
- US except AR, CA, IN, MN, SC
- LegitScript
- Claimed by provider
- Updated
- September 2026
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A longevity storefront rather than a program: B12, glutathione, metformin, rapamycin, sermorelin, ED medication, compounded GLP-1s, and NAD⁺ in two formats — injections at $299.99 and a nasal spray at $149.99. You add the product to the cart and complete an intake afterward.
How it works
Checkout first, intake second. Their own sequence: "Add NAD+ to your cart. Complete checkout to access our secure intake form and share your information with our licensed practitioners. Once approved, your prescription ships fast, free, and discreetly." The consultation fee is stated as $0 and there is a 30-day return policy. The founder is named — "our founder and board-certified physician Dr. Todd Stearns" — and a 20-minute consultation with him is offered separately, which is more than most storefronts disclose about who is behind them.
Pricing transparency
$299.99 for the vial, with "As low as $239.99 per month with subscription" and "Subscribe and save $60 on every refill" directly beneath it. We record $299.99 because that is the price with nothing attached. Both figures sit above the $29.99–$249 band that holds most of this category, and $299.99 is above The Edit and Vytora at $249, Obu at $219 and Yucca at $215, though Remi Meds at $349 and AquaVita NextGen at $599 a vial publish more still. What makes it arguable rather than indefensible is the published quantity: three 100 mg doses a week, priced by the page as a month, works out near 25 cents a milligram — the same arithmetic as iThriveMD's stated 1000 mg at $249, and against System Labs at roughly 15 cents and Neo Soma at about the same.
Branded vs compounded
Compounded NAD⁺ — which this page never says. We searched the NAD⁺ product page and found no occurrence of "compound" and no occurrence of "FDA". That silence is specific: on the same storefront their GLP-1 listings are titled "Compounded Semaglutide" and "Compounded Tirzepatide", so the vocabulary is plainly available. Their homepage FAQ goes further in the wrong direction, telling readers that "GLP-1 treatments are regulated and approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)" — true of brand-name Ozempic and Wegovy, and not true of the compounded semaglutide Arc-1 sells. Compounded drugs are not FDA-approved and are not reviewed by the FDA for safety, efficacy or quality before they are dispensed.
Pros and watch-outs
What we like
- Publishes the protocol in the dose selector — three 100 mg doses a week, in a 6 mL vial — which makes the price checkable
- States its state exclusions rather than implying nationwide coverage
- Names the founder as a board-certified physician and offers a consultation with him
- $0 consultation fee, free expedited shipping, and a 30-day return policy
- Both NAD⁺ formats on one storefront, injection and nasal spray, at published prices
Watch-outs
- $299.99 a vial is steep for the category — The Edit and Vytora charge $249, Obu $219 and Yucca $215
- The word "compounded" never appears on the NAD⁺ page, though it titles their GLP-1 products
- No mention of the FDA on the NAD⁺ page at all
- Their homepage FAQ calls GLP-1 treatments FDA-approved on a site selling compounded GLP-1s
- You check out before you complete the intake, which puts payment ahead of eligibility
- The compounding pharmacy is not named — only "US-Licensed Pharmacies"
Best for
Someone who has decided to buy injectable NAD⁺, wants to know the dose before paying, and is not shopping on price.
Who should look elsewhere
Anyone in California, Arkansas, Indiana, Minnesota or South Carolina, where they state the product is not available — and anyone who wants the regulatory status of what they are buying stated on the page selling it.
How Arc-1 compares
A few alternatives worth a look, depending on what you’re optimizing for.
- Care Bare Rx
Anyone who wants the price up front
See Care Bare Rx → - Breeze Meds
The lowest listed injection price
See Breeze Meds → - CoreAge Rx
The lowest published NAD⁺ price
See CoreAge Rx →
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Formats & delivery · Reviewed and last verified September 2026
How we assessed this. This review reflects NAD Picks’s own read of Arc-1’s publicly-stated model — pricing transparency, clinical oversight, medication clarity, and access — against our editorial methodology. We publish no fabricated ratings or first-hand outcomes. A partnership never changes the assessment — see how we make money.
Frequently asked
- How much is Arc-1's NAD⁺?
- $299.99 for the vial, or "as low as $239.99 per month with subscription" — their page frames the saving as "Subscribe and save $60 on every refill". We list $299.99 because that is the price with no commitment. Both figures sit above the $29.99 to $249 range we have verified across NAD⁺ subscriptions.
- What dose do you actually get?
- They publish it, which is unusual: the only dose option is labeled "3 - 100mg Doses per Week (6ml vial)". Priced as the month the page treats it as, that is roughly 25 cents a milligram — comparable to iThriveMD's stated 1000 mg at $249, and around 70% more than Neo Soma, which publishes 100 mg three days a week for $175 every four weeks.
- Is their NAD⁺ compounded?
- Yes — every injectable NAD⁺ sold through US telehealth is — but the page does not say so. We searched the NAD⁺ product page and found no occurrence of "compound" and none of "FDA". That stands out because the same storefront titles its weight-loss products "Compounded Semaglutide" and "Compounded Tirzepatide". Compounded drugs are not FDA-approved and the FDA does not review them for safety, efficacy or quality before dispensing.
- Which states can't get it?
- Their product page says the product is not available in California, Arkansas, Indiana, Minnesota, Puerto Rico or South Carolina. Naming exclusions rather than claiming all 50 is a small honesty, and a rare one — several providers we track make a blanket nationwide claim and say nothing about exceptions.
- Why review a provider you earn nothing from?
- We hold no affiliate relationship with Arc-1 and earn nothing if you buy there. It is listed because it sells NAD⁺ at a published price, and because it publishes the dose — which makes it more useful to a reader working out what a milligram costs than most of the cheaper sellers are.
- Is Arc-1 legit?
- Arc-1 is an NAD⁺ injection providers service. Its stated availability: US except AR, CA, IN, MN, SC. It displays a LegitScript certification claim, which we record as a claim and not as a verified fact: LegitScript's public checker is gated and returns the same page for any domain put into it, so no one can reproduce a check from it. What our record does not establish: which medications it dispenses, whether it bills insurance and how its intake works. Ask for those in writing before you pay.
- Is Arc-1 expensive compared with other NAD⁺ injection providers providers?
- Arc-1 publishes a starting figure of $299.99/mo. Across the 116 NAD⁺ injection providers providers we review that publish a single monthly figure, those run $17.97 to $799 with a median of $175, which puts Arc-1 above the median. The other 33 NAD⁺ injection providers providers we review quote only after an intake or price by dose, so they are not in that comparison. A starting figure is not a bill — labs, consultations and shipping are often charged separately, so confirm what your own quote includes.