A Miracle Vitamin, Niacin

By the way, niacin and nicotinic acid are in factAnd as if truth was on a roll, and from
inter-changeable terms for exactly the sameScandinavia, a comprehensive study in a Swedish
B-complex miracle vitamin.university revealed that risk factors for heart
Niacin is metabolised by your body and the resultdisease were very significantly reduced in patients
is niacinamide.receiving niacin.
Now pay very close attention here, It isNiacin's actions for reducing the risk factors for
niacinamide that is useful as a nutrient for yourheart disease arise out of the fact that, niacin has
body, and it is niacin, not the niacinamide, thata strong effect on your body's production of
lowers your bad high cholesterol.hormone-like chemicals, called prostaglandins, such
That distinction is important, because theas PGI2 that are vital to numerous body
cholesterol lowering action,is understood to occurfunctions, and niacin increases their production.
at the time of metabolism from niacin toPGI2 is critical to blood platelet aggregation, and
niacinamide in your liver.without sufficient PGI2, your blood has a
Niacin was discovered in 1917,and that it'stendency to clot. So, the greater the chances of
deficiency as a nutrient caused a condition that istendency to clot, the greater the risk of vascular
now well known as pellagra.occlusion, a risk factor for heart disease,do you
Be aware that as with all vitamins, the amountsee.
recommended for the general population, may weNiacin increases the production of PGI2, and
repeat,for the general population is based ontherefore prevents the possible tendency of
levels necessary to prevent a deficiency.blood to clot.
Therefore, in terms of niacin, a daily dosage of 20Remember that cholesterol is manufactured by
milligrams will prevent pellagra, and that is the levelyour liver.
set as the "RDA" for the population of the USA.Fortunately, that is precisely the place where
It was Dr.R. Altschul, in 1955, who discovered thatniacin exerts its remarkable actions. It is
niacin has the remarkable ability of lowering badunderstood that niacin's unique actions do lower
high cholesterol.VLDL, the very low density lipoprotein, by way of
His patients received three grams daily, which isdecreasing it's production by the liver.
way above and beyond the U.S."RDA", and theNow pay close attention, since the worst
results were superb,excellent and beyondoffender,LDL cholesterol or the low density
expectations.lipoprotein, relies on VLDL for it's production, and
Further research by 1962 discovered a niacinniacin lowers VLDL to begin with, therefore, the
bonus, that niacin not only reduced cholesterolLDL levels in the blood automatically drop, lowering
levels,LDL cholesterol, it also effectively loweredyour high cholesterol naturally.
triglyceride levels. And better yet, it raised theThere is more that you ought to know about this
protective HDL levels, the good cholesterol, in themiracle vitamin niacin and it's very unique abilities
blood.to assist you in your determined pursuit for
In 1975, the Coronary Drug Project,better health.
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