NAD+ Ortigas: The Office Delivery

Ortigas is office-worker density in a compact CBD, and the ordering pattern reflects it. Readers here send me a building name and a floor, not a condo unit. That is a rational choice: a receiving desk in an office tower is staffed all day, signs for everything, and never phones you to ask where the entrance is. Compared to a low-rise residential address it is a much more reliable receipt.

The catch is specific to this compound. On lyophilized GLP-class material, receipt is most of the battle. On NAD+, which degrades quickly at room temperature, receipt is only the first half. An insulated pack is engineered to survive a courier leg measured in hours, and an office delivery adds a second leg that is not a courier leg at all: your working afternoon, then the commute.

The obvious fix is the office fridge, and I understand the logic, but it is the weakest link most Ortigas readers reach for. A shared pantry fridge is opened all day, the door shelf where a small box naturally ends up is the warmest part of the appliance, and building services occasionally cut power over long weekends without telling anybody in your department.

Set that against the compound. Reconstituted NAD+ has to be refrigerated and used within two to three weeks, which is a shorter window than the four to six weeks many peptides tolerate, and repeated warming and re-chilling is not something I would inflict on material this fragile for the sake of convenience. There is also the mundane social problem that a labelled box in a shared fridge is a conversation you probably do not want to have with your floor.

The workable version is duller and better: keep the still-insulated parcel with you rather than in a shared appliance, leave at a sensible hour, and put it in your own fridge on a middle shelf toward the back. If your day genuinely cannot accommodate that, the honest answer is that home delivery on a work-from-home day is the better plan for this compound.

Ortigas timing is not about distance. It is about chokepoints, and the CBD approaches thicken well before the end of the working day. That is a nuisance for a person and a cost for a cold pack.

The controllable lever is verification before noon, which puts the parcel on a same-day dispatch and gives the whole chain an afternoon rather than a rush-hour window. Everything after that is geography.

Pasig outside the CBD is a different delivery country. Kapitolyo is low-rise residential on a street grid where numbering is inconsistent enough that a pin dropped on a map is regularly not a door. The rider phones from the corner, you describe the house, and five or ten minutes disappear. On most compounds that is a mild irritation. On NAD+ it is time spent from the same budget as the ride itself.

The fix is trivial and people still skip it: a landmark in the delivery note, and a phone you will actually answer. The Greenhills-adjacent edge of the district behaves similarly, mixing older residential stock with newer buildings, so treat those addresses the same way.

The wider district picture, including hospitals and pharmacy stock across Ortigas, sits in our Pasig city guide.

For most districts I would say the vial wins on cost per milligram and leave it there, and on pure material cost that is still true. The Ortigas-specific wrinkle is that the drip buys you something the office worker specifically lacks, which is a route with no storage step in it. You are not carrying anything home and nothing is depending on a pantry fridge. If your working life makes cold-chain genuinely awkward, that is worth more than the price table suggests.

If you go the vial route, the at-home protocol is 100 to 200mg three to five times weekly on a two to four week loading block, dropping to 50 to 100mg one to three times weekly. Buy the volume you will use inside a month rather than bulk-buying against the two to three week reconstituted window, and demand a third-party certificate of analysis per batch with a batch number that matches the vial.