Modern Age review

What it is

Modern Age is a longevity clinic in New York City, at a single Manhattan address, selling in-person treatments across four groups: IV drip therapies including an NAD⁺ drip; injections including NAD⁺, glutathione, vitamin D3, vitamin B12 and lipotropic; skin and hair treatments including facials, neuromodulator and filler injections, microneedling, chemical peels, LED therapy and plasma hair restoration; and assessment-led offerings including an Aging Wellness Assessment, hormone assessments and a weight-loss assessment. It sells a small retail supplement shelf alongside. Booking is by appointment or walk-in, with a free consult offered before treatment.

How it works

In person, transactional and clinic-based — which is a fundamentally different proposition from everything else on this board and the first thing to establish before comparing prices. There is no vial in the post and no monthly subscription: you book or walk into one Manhattan clinic and receive an intramuscular injection or an IV drip on site. That has real advantages. Administration is done by the clinic rather than by you, a free consult precedes treatment, the per-treatment price is published on the product page, and the assessment-led side means bloodwork and a clinician review are available in the same building. It also has hard limits. Geography is the binding one: if you are not in New York, none of this is accessible. The clinic sits alongside an aesthetics menu, so the framing is closer to a wellness and med-spa practice than to a prescribing telehealth service, and no LegitScript certification, no named medical director and no compounding-pharmacy disclosure appears on the site. Its footer copyright is also stale, which is a small sign about how closely the public site is maintained.

Pricing transparency

Published per treatment, which is the right unit for an in-person injection and makes the real cost legible in a way monthly subscriptions do not. The NAD⁺ injection is $125 for one or $310 for three; the glutathione injection is $50 for one or $125 for three. Because the clinic states that most people start to see results after four to eight injections, the honest planning figure for NAD⁺ is several hundred dollars over a course rather than $125, and that is the arithmetic to do before booking. There is no monthly price and we do not quote one. An NAD⁺ IV drip sits on the same menu at a separate price point, and the assessment and program fees this brand has previously charged belong to its weight and hormone programs rather than to an injection. A free consult is offered, and the retail supplement shelf is priced separately per item.

Branded vs compounded

Administered in clinic rather than dispensed to you, and not FDA-approved for the uses marketed. Modern Age does not name a compounding pharmacy or state a compounding pathway for its injectables, which is a disclosure gap that matters as much for an in-clinic sterile preparation as for a mailed one. On the evidence, this is the weakest-supported category in this batch and the framing should be plain. Injected NAD⁺ has no controlled human outcome trials; the single human intravenous study was a pharmacokinetic pilot which found that infused NAD⁺ clears from plasma quickly, and intravenous NAD⁺ infusions are frequently reported as uncomfortable at speed. The NAD⁺ forms with human trial data are the oral precursors NR and NMN, and what they reliably demonstrate is a raised blood NAD⁺ level — a biomarker, not a demonstrated clinical benefit, and certainly not the energy, cognition, inflammation and longevity outcomes marketed around the injection. Glutathione has essentially no controlled human outcome data behind the antioxidant and skin claims attached to it. Individual results vary.

Pros and watch-outs

The evidence behind what Modern Age prescribes

We grade the molecules, not the marketing. Here is what the human data actually shows for each thing on their menu.

• NAD+ IV therapy: an expensive drip ahead of its evidence

  Clinics sell NAD+ infusions for anti-aging, energy and addiction at $250–$1,500 a session — but there's no controlled trial of IV NAD+, and the real human evidence is for oral precursors, not the drip.

• NAD+ precursors (NR and NMN): what the human trials actually show

  They raise NAD+ and look safe short-term — but human evidence is surrogate-marker level, and no trial shows they extend healthspan.

• Glutathione: the master antioxidant, and where the evidence actually is

  Oral glutathione really does raise your body stores (a 6-month RCT proved it) — but the longevity and detox claims are unproven, skin-lightening is modest, and IV glutathione is the most marketed, least evidenced route. The precursors may be the smarter bet.

How Modern Age compares

A few alternatives worth a look, depending on what you’re optimizing for.

• MEMeto

  NAD⁺ buyers who want bloodwork behind the prescription and the price published in advance

  See Meto →
• MAMaves

  NAD⁺ at a published all-in monthly price across all 50 states

  See Maves →
• MEMedivive

  Readers who want the specific longevity peptides named before they start an intake

  See Medivive →