A daily ritual for the reward circuit. Built for focus, self-control, and the pattern you have been trying to break.
The first NAC + NAD+ stack engineered for the men nobody else was selling NAC to. Two molecules at clinical doses, in a smooth MCT-coconut softgel. Discipline is not willpower. It is chemistry.
WaneLabs NAC + NAD+ is a premium men's supplement built around two molecules researchers have been quietly studying for two decades. 600 mg of N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine paired with 600 mg of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, delivered in a smooth MCT-coconut softgel that solves the sulfur-smell problem most NAC supplements fail at. Three softgels, once a day. 100 servings per pouch. Third-party tested, GMO-free, and made in the USA. This is NAC engineered for the men nobody else was selling NAC to.
Take three softgels once daily, with food, in the morning. Most men take it with their first cup of coffee. The softgels are smooth, easy to swallow, and have no aftertaste. That is the entire protocol.
Tip: Take consistently for at least 30 days before you evaluate. Most men feel the first noticeable shift around day 7. By day 30, the late-night loop typically breaks. By day 90, the chemistry has stabilized and the pattern is broken. Three softgels, one ritual, one time a day. No stacking schedules. No mid-day reminders.
Your reward circuit has no off-switch. Years of cue exposure (porn, scrolling, vaping, gambling, sugar) wear down the system that holds the brake on craving. The cue still arrives. Your brain just cannot stop responding to it. Willpower has been trying to out-think a chemistry problem.
The result: you tried NoFap and the streak broke at week two. You tried monk mode and folded by 11 PM. You bought every nootropic on the shelf and felt nothing. WaneLabs works on the chemistry underneath the willpower. The urge still shows up. It just does not grab you the way it used to.
Two molecules. Each has its job.
GMO-free, gluten-free, third-party tested. No proprietary blends, no fillers, no artificial colors, no marketing chemistry. Every milligram is on the label. Every label is backed by a published Certificate of Analysis.
Shipping. Free US shipping on every order. Your pouch ships within 24 hours of order confirmation. 3 to 5 business days for standard delivery. Tracking number sent to your email the moment your order leaves the warehouse. International shipping available at checkout.
Guarantee. 30-day money-back guarantee. If the protocol does not deliver, we refund you. No questions asked, no return shipping required, no fight. Even an empty pouch is fine.
Returns. Unopened pouches can be returned within 14 days for any reason or no reason at all. Just reach out to our customer service team and we will handle it.
Two decades of clinical research have studied the chemistry behind these signals.
THE PATTERNS
The patterns you barely notice anymore are often the first signal that the chemistry has slipped.
The 1 AM Loop
The Morning Reach
The 3 PM Substitute
The Autopilot Binge
The Broken Plan
The Streak Collapse
If you recognized three of these, it is not your willpower. It is your reward circuit.
YOU KNOW THIS
Six things. If you nod at three, you are in the right place.
You wake up tired before the day has started. Your phone is the first thing you reach for, and it is also the thing destroying you. The day begins on autopilot.
It is 1 AM. Again. You promised yourself last week you would quit. You have promised yourself for years. Tomorrow is going to be different. It is never different.
The thing you cannot say out loud is that you do not believe you have the willpower to be the man you see in your head. You watch your friends move forward. You watch yourself stay still.
When you try to talk about this with the people in your real life, they do not understand. The only place you feel seen is on YouTube at 2 AM, listening to a stranger explain your own brain to you.
You have tried everything. NoFap, monk mode, dopamine detox, app blockers, cold turkey, every nootropic on the shelf. Some things worked for a week. Most worked for a day. Nothing held.
You are running out of time. Your peers are getting promoted, getting in shape, getting married. You are 27, alone in a room, watching the version of yourself you stopped believing you could be.
It is not your willpower, and it is not your character. The real reason is a circuit in your brain that almost no one talks about.
THE REAL CAUSE
Your heart pumps blood. Your lungs pump air. But your reward circuit, the system that decides what your brain chases and what it lets go, runs on a precise chemical balance that breaks the moment you stop feeding it. For 99 percent of human history, that balance held. Until now.
Your grandfather did not have this problem. He worked physically every day, slept when the sun went down, ate food that came from the ground, and went weeks at a time without seeing a screen. You sit at a desk for nine hours, scroll a slot machine designed by a thousand engineers to keep you scrolling, eat food engineered to override your body's "stop" signal, and fall asleep with your face in a screen that never lets your brain reset.
Your reward circuit is not broken. It is running in a world it was never built for.
FOUR REASONS NOTHING HAS WORKED
Every notification, every scroll, every cue-driven hit forces a glutamate spike in your nucleus accumbens. Years of this downregulate the system that controls craving. The volume knob breaks.
Your reward circuit needs a steady supply of cystine to maintain its baseline tone. Modern processed food and depleted glutathione mean the supply runs dry, and the brake on craving comes off.
Deep sleep is when your brain resets glutamate homeostasis. Late screens and broken circadian rhythm mean that reset never happens. Each morning starts with the previous day's chemical debt still unpaid.
Desk life, financial pressure, and isolation produce a sustained cortisol load that further erodes glutamate signaling. Every cue hits harder. Every craving lasts longer. Every relapse makes the next one easier.
Four causes. One result. Your reward circuit is jammed. That is why willpower has failed, why NoFap has failed, why every nootropic has failed. You need a lever that works on the chemistry itself.
THE PROTOCOL
Most brands promise results by Monday. We will not. This is the realistic timeline your reward circuit actually needs to rebuild itself.
WEEK 1
The cystine pool restores. System xc⁻ starts producing glutamate again. Inside your brain, the chemistry has already begun. Outside, nothing visible yet. Trust the process.
WEEK 3
The urge still arrives. It just does not grab you the way it used to. The cue triggers, but the chemical hijack is reduced. You notice you finished your coffee before reaching for your phone.
WEEK 6
Streaks last. Sleep deepens because the racing thought loop quiets. Energy returns because NAD+ has rebuilt mitochondrial capacity. You leave the house. You move through the world rather than from it.
WEEK 12
It is no longer a protocol. It is who you are. The version of yourself you stopped believing you could be is now the resting state. You stop talking about the protocol because it has become you.
No Day 7. No "lock in by Monday." Just the path your chemistry actually takes when you give it the lever.
THE FORMULA
Most NAC supplements give you 600 mg, ship it in a capsule that smells like rotten eggs, and call it a day. WaneLabs is dosed at the floor of clinical efficacy and paired with NAD+ to work on three pathways of the reward circuit at once.
Restore Glutamate Tone
NAC supplies cystine to system xc⁻, the glial transporter that maintains the background glutamate signal in your reward circuit. The volume knob comes back. The cue arrives. It just does not crank to eleven anymore.
Reactivate The Brake
Restored glutamate tone reactivates the mGluR2/3 brake on synaptic glutamate spillover in the nucleus accumbens. The compulsive seeking that overrides intention is structurally interrupted. The urge shows up. It does not grab.
Fuel Executive Function
NAD+ rebuilds mitochondrial capacity and activates the sirtuin pathway. Your prefrontal cortex finally has the fuel to act on a circuit that is no longer hijacked. The part most NAC formulas leave out entirely.
No other supplement on the US market works on all three pathways at clinical-floor doses. WaneLabs is not another NAC. It is the first one built for the reward circuit itself.
Long before modern science could name the reward circuit, every serious masculine tradition already had a name for the problem you are facing: the appetite that owns the man. The Romans called the discipline that fixed it temperantia. The Japanese called it heijoshin. The Greeks called it askesis. Different cultures, the same recognition: a man who could not master his appetites was not yet a man.
Every tradition that took men seriously trained them against the same enemy. Voluntary fasting. Cold exposure. Physical labor. Sex restriction before contests and battles. Long silences. Real scarcity. None of these practices were arbitrary. They worked because they protected something biological: a reward circuit that needed sparse cues and real recovery to stay calibrated. For two thousand years, men were trained to live in the conditions their wiring was built for.
You are the first generation that has never known any of it. Your phone is engineered to hijack the same circuit Marcus Aurelius trained himself to master. Your food is engineered to override the same restraint the samurai built through fasting. Your sleep is broken by the same screens that shorten the recovery your wiring requires. The traditions that protected men from this collapsed two generations ago. The chemistry they protected has not.
What every serious tradition trained men to do, your reward circuit can no longer do alone.
FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN
THE FOUNDER
My name is Marcus Reid. I am 38 and I was born in Brooklyn. And the man on the bathroom floor at 2 AM, on Day 1 of his fifteenth quit attempt, laughing because what else was he going to do, that was me at 33.
I had read every book. I had run every protocol. NoFap, monk mode, dopamine detox, cold plunges, app blockers, accountability partners. I had watched four hundred hours of Huberman. I knew what dopamine was. I knew what the reward circuit was. I still could not get past Day 30. I thought I was weak. The protocols I bought told me I was weak in different words. I had believed it for a decade.
"You don't have a willpower problem. You have a chemistry problem. And you are trying to fix chemistry with willpower."
A friend said that to me at a dinner. He was a neuroscientist. He said it casually, the way you mention something obvious. I went home that night and could not sleep. The next morning I started reading. Not self-help. The actual papers.
Five years of research. The 2009 trichotillomania trial that almost no one cited. The 2007 gambling trial that pharma walked away from because you cannot patent an amino acid. Peter Kalivas at the Medical University of South Carolina, who had worked out the entire mechanism in 2009 and watched the world ignore it for fifteen years. The studies were sitting in journals while men like me were being sold dopamine detox apps. I tested NAC on myself first. The urge still arrived. It just did not grab. I stacked it with NAD+ to fuel the executive function the cleared circuit was finally free to use. Three pathways at once: Quiet, Hold, Power. Not one more capsule that smells like rotten eggs and does nothing.
Today the morning is mine again. The phone is no longer the first thing I touch. The streak counter is no longer the most important number in my life. And I built WaneLabs for every man who has ever been told he is just weak, when the real problem was something he was never given the lever to fix.
Marcus Reid
Founder, WaneLabs · Brooklyn
REAL MEN, REAL PROTOCOLS
No models. No stock photos. Just men who run the protocol every morning and decided to show up for the photo.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Twenty questions we hear most often. Answered honestly, no fine print.
Most NAC supplements give you 600 mg, ship it in a capsule that smells like rotten eggs, and market it for liver and lungs. WaneLabs is dosed at the floor of clinical efficacy (1,200 mg per day at the BID protocol), paired with NAD+ to fuel the executive function the cleared circuit can finally use, and built specifically for men whose reward circuit has been hijacked. Three pathways at once: Quiet, Hold, Power. Encapsulated in MCT and coconut oil so you taste nothing.
Honest answer: not in week one. The chemistry has begun internally but you will feel nothing externally yet. Most men describe the first noticeable shift around day 14 to 21, when the urge still arrives but does not grab the way it used to. By week 6, sleep deepens and streaks hold. By week 12, the version of yourself you stopped believing you could be is the resting state. This is not a stim. It does not "kick in." It rebuilds.
No. Think of WaneLabs as a 90-day reboot, not a lifetime dependency. Most men run the protocol at full dose for 90 days, then taper to a maintenance dose or cycle off entirely. The chemistry rebuilds; you do not need to keep paying for what you have already restored. Some men stay on it long-term because they value the maintenance. Either is fine. The choice is yours.
NAC has been used in human clinical trials for over thirty years with a strong safety profile. The most common side effect is mild stomach discomfort if taken on an empty stomach; we recommend taking with food in week one. NAC interacts with nitroglycerin and blood-thinning medications, so if you are on either, talk to your doctor first. The MCT softgel solves the sulfur smell most cheap NAC has, so no rotten-egg burps.
This is built for men 18 to 35 specifically. The avatar we built it for is 22 to 28 — phone-native, fluent in Huberman, has tried NoFap and dopamine detox at least once, working a desk job or in school. If your reward circuit was raised on TikTok and porn, you are exactly who this exists for. The receptor downregulation that NAC reverses started earlier in your life than in any prior generation.
No. The FDA issued warning letters to a few brands in 2020 over a technical regulatory dispute about whether NAC was first approved as a drug or sold as a supplement. In August 2022 the FDA confirmed enforcement discretion, meaning NAC continues to be sold legally as a US dietary supplement. NAC has been on shelves since the early 1990s and is in thousands of products. It is not a controlled substance.
Manufactured in the United States in a cGMP-certified facility. Every batch is third-party tested for purity, potency, and heavy metals. The Certificate of Analysis is published openly on the product page — not buried, not hidden, available before you buy. The MCT and coconut oil softgel encapsulation is done in-house at the same facility.
No. The sulfur smell of cheap NAC is the entire reason we use MCT and coconut oil softgel encapsulation. The thiol group is sealed inside the softgel, so you taste nothing, smell nothing, and burp nothing. This is the single most-complained-about feature of every other NAC product on the market. We solved it.
US orders ship within 24 hours of order confirmation and arrive in 3 to 5 business days. You will receive tracking by email. Free shipping on all US orders. International shipping currently unavailable while we focus on the US launch — apologies if you are outside the US.
Yes. 30-day full money-back guarantee. If you do not feel a difference, if the urge still grabs you the way it used to, send it back. Full refund. No questions, no hoops. An empty bottle is fine. The risk is on us, not you.
Because everything you have tried was a behavioral protocol asking you to fix a chemistry problem with willpower. NoFap, monk mode, app blockers, dopamine detox — all of these address the cue. None of them rebuild the cystine pool that controls how loud the cue gets. NAC works on the chemistry side. It does not replace your discipline; it gives your discipline something to actually pull against. This is not a marketing claim. It is the Kalivas mechanism documented in 2009.
30-day full money-back guarantee. If you finish 30 days and do not feel the urge soften, send it back. Full refund. No questions, no hoops, an empty bottle is fine. The risk is on us, not you. We can offer this because the clinical literature is robust enough that we know what the response rate looks like — most men feel the shift well before day 30.
No. NAC works on glutamate normalization, not GABA suppression or serotonin modulation. It does not sedate. It does not dull libido. It does not flatten emotion. It quiets the static between cues so you can hear yourself think and choose. Your drive is not the problem; the hijack of your drive is the problem. NAC fixes the hijack, not the drive.
You can. Most cheap NAC is 600 mg per capsule, often as a single daily dose, in a capsule that smells like rotten eggs. The clinical literature shows efficacy at 1,200 to 2,400 mg per day at the BID protocol. Generic NAC is also not paired with NAD+, the supply-side complement that fuels the executive function on a cleared circuit. You are paying for the dose, the format, the stack, and the published Certificate of Analysis. If those do not matter to you, GNC NAC will give you the molecule.
No. We will not tell you that. The strongest direct evidence is a 2022 case series (Blum and Grant, Journal of Psychiatric Research) where 5 of 8 men with compulsive sexual behavior disorder showed marked improvement on NAC. Eight men is not a phase III trial. The stronger evidence base is in adjacent compulsive behaviors: trichotillomania (Grant 2009, 56 percent vs 16 percent), pathological gambling (Grant 2007, 83 percent vs 28 percent), and cocaine relapse prevention (LaRowe 2013). The mechanism is the same across these conditions. You are buying a chemistry lever with strong adjacent evidence, not a guaranteed cure.
Honestly, no. NAC and NAD+ have not been studied together as a combination intervention in any clinical trial. The pairing rationale is mechanistic: NAC handles the demand-side of compulsion (glutamate normalization) while NAD+ handles the supply-side of executive function (mitochondrial energy and sirtuin activation). Both are independently well-studied. The combination has not been. We disclose this rather than overpromise on it.
One softgel twice a day, morning and evening, with food. That gives you 1,200 mg of NAC and 600 mg of NAD+ daily, the floor of the clinically-studied range. The protocol is simple on purpose. No stacking instructions, no cycling, no titration. One softgel. Twice a day. With food.
No problem. A missed dose does not break the protocol. Take the next softgel at your usual time. Do not double up to compensate. The cystine pool restoration is cumulative; one missed dose does not undo two weeks of progress.
Yes for most. NAC plays well with creatine, magnesium, omega-3, vitamin D, and the standard foundation supplements. Two flags: avoid stacking with high-dose stimulant nootropics (Alpha-GPC + Huperzine combos) because they work at cross-purposes with the calming mechanism, and check with your doctor if you are on prescription medication, especially blood thinners or nitroglycerin.
No. One-time purchase is the default. Subscription is optional and saves you 15 percent. You can skip a month, pause, or cancel in one click from your account, no email chains, no retention agents, no fine print. We have all been burned by Hims-style subscription traps. We will not do that to you.
Question not here?
Email us at support@wanelabs.com. We answer most messages within one business day.
No paid influencers. No staged photos. Men who stopped negotiating with themselves and want you to know it is possible.
Five years of NoFap. Reset counter is permanently engraved in my brain. I had read every Huberman episode and tried every protocol on the planet. Nothing held past Day 30.
Day 17 on WaneLabs I was about to relapse and noticed something. The urge was there. It just wasn't pulling me. I sat with it. It passed in maybe ninety seconds. I have not looked at the streak counter the same way since. Day 89 today.
I had a doom-scroll problem so deep I could not start my day without 45 minutes on the phone in bed. Tried every app blocker. They all got uninstalled by Tuesday.
Three weeks in I noticed I made coffee before I checked my phone. Four weeks in I read for twenty minutes before opening anything. This is not willpower. The pull just got quieter. My morning is mine for the first time since college.
I have been in therapy for two years working on compulsive behaviors. We made progress slowly. My therapist said something at our last session that stopped me cold: "you seem like you have a different floor under you now."
I told her about WaneLabs. She asked me the dose, took notes, and said she has another patient she is going to mention this to. The talk therapy is still doing the work. The chemistry just gave her something to actually work with.
Was 22 lbs heavier than my college weight, vape habit, ate like a teenager. Not because I wanted to but because I could not stop. Every night I told myself tomorrow would be different.
Six weeks in: stopped vaping without trying. Late-night kitchen raids gone. Hit the gym three times a week without negotiating with myself. My girlfriend asked if I started lifting again. I had. The energy just came back.
Insomnia from racing thoughts. Could not turn the brain off. Phone in bed until 1, 2, 3 AM. Doctor offered me trazodone. I did not want to be on that.
Week two on WaneLabs I fell asleep at 11:40 reading a book. I cannot remember the last time that happened. The thoughts are still there. They just stop demanding the night from me. I wake up at 6:30 actually rested. Whole life feels different.
Got promoted at work in March, but my private life was a mess. Drinking too much on weekdays, scrolling until 2 AM, eating like garbage. I kept telling myself I'd lock in after the next vacation.
WaneLabs got me out of the loop. Two months in I told my brother, who has been in the same loop. He started his bottle four weeks ago. We text each other on Day 1, Day 7, Day 30. First time we have had this conversation honestly.
Honest review: weeks one and two I felt nothing. I almost canceled the subscription on Day 14 because I was sure this was another nootropic that did not work for me.
Then I read the timeline on the site again, saw that Week 1 to 2 is the chemistry rebuilding silently, and decided to give it the full 90 days. Week 4 the shift was clear. Sleep deeper, urges quieter, sharper at work. Four stars not five only because I wish I'd been warned harder that the early weeks are quiet.
Decade-long PMO loop. Day 1 thirty-something times. Therapy, accountability software, religious abstinence, none of it held. I had decided the loop was just who I was now.
I am writing this on Day 67. The biggest shift is not even the streak. It is that I do not think about it the way I used to. The cue arrives and just passes. I have stopped checking the streak counter every morning because it stopped being the most important number in my life.
THE PROMISE
You have spent years trying to fix this with willpower. This time the risk is on us.
Run the protocol for 30 days. If the urge still grabs you the way it used to, if the morning still belongs to the phone, if you still feel like you are negotiating with yourself every night, send it back. Full refund.
No questions. No hoops. No "restocking fee" hidden in the fine print. An empty bottle is fine.
Ships in 24 hours. Arrives in 3 to 5 business days.
Marcus Reid · Founder, WaneLabs · Brooklyn
