Phosphatidylcholine

What is phosphatidylcholine?

Phosphatidylcholine belongs to the phospholipid class. A phospholipid has a glycerol backbone carrying two fatty-acid chains and a phosphate group, and in phosphatidylcholine that phosphate is joined to a choline head group. The fatty-acid tails are water-avoiding and the choline head is water-attracting, which is why phospholipids arrange themselves into the double-layer membranes that surround every cell.

That membrane role is the reason the Celyfe compound library files phosphatidylcholine as a phospholipid carrier studied for cell membrane integrity. It is a structural and carrier lipid, not a signalling molecule, and it is not a peptide.

How phosphatidylcholine is used in the Celyfe system

The NAD+ Precision Pen carries 500mg of NAD+ in a pre-filled 3ml cartridge, and its vehicle contains a phosphatidylcholine complex at 50mcg together with trans-resveratrol at 25mcg. The product page describes the phosphatidylcholine complex as a phospholipid carrier included in the vehicle. It is a microgram-level component rather than a second active compound, and it is listed on the label and recorded on the batch certificate alongside the NAD+.

Because the cartridge is pre-mixed, the phosphatidylcholine is already in solution with the NAD+ when the pen leaves the facility. There is no reconstitution step and no separate carrier to source. Each click of the pen dispenses 0.01ml of the complete formulation, 300 clicks per cartridge, and the batch-specific certificate of analysis covers the cartridge as manufactured.

Celyfe does not sell phosphatidylcholine on its own. The only way it appears in a Celyfe product is as part of the NAD+ Precision Pen vehicle.

Handling, storage and quality

Phosphatidylcholine is handled as part of the NAD+ Precision Pen, so the storage rules are those of the pen. Refrigerate the cartridge at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius as soon as the parcel arrives, keep it sealed and away from light, and never freeze it. The pen ships cold-chain in a foil pouch with ice packs and a batch certificate that records HPLC purity for the batch.

Related compounds and comparisons

The compound library holds one other phospholipid, phosphatidylserine, which the library files under cell membrane integrity in neural tissue. Phosphatidylserine is not in any Celyfe pen. The comparison Alpha-GPC vs Phosphatidylserine sets that compound against the choline compound Alpha-GPC, and readers interested in choline chemistry will notice that phosphatidylcholine carries a choline head group of its own.

The two compounds phosphatidylcholine shares a cartridge with are NAD+ and resveratrol. The comparison NAD+ vs Resveratrol explains how those two relate.