anti-inflammatory actions of niacin

[Farooqji]

mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/18/45...

[CaseyInsights]

Thanks my friend 🤗🤗🤗

I felt a weight drop from my shoulder on joining this group. And this post and others with links to current research is a major contributor to my relief.

For those wishing a gentler introduction/exploration to the subject look here -

scienceofparkinsons.com/201...

[ElliotGreen in reply to CaseyInsights]

"a larger double blind, randomised clinical study is now underway in Augusta. Approximately 80 participants will be randomly and blindly treated with either 250mg niacin or a placebo drug for 6 months"

estimated completion date: this month (30 Sept 2019)

[M1tz1]

Thank you, iqbaliqbal. This is interesting. As an aside, I thought I'd mention that, in an online series about depression, one of the speakers claimed that Niacin is an effective way to counter depression. He recommended the flush-free version. I have had ongoing depression since my husband's death and recently started taking niacin, but nothing like the substantial doses he mentioned. (Can't remember his suggested dose.) Even at a low level of supplementation, it is helping. A friend refers to it as my 'happy pill'!

[enjoysalud in reply to M1tz1]

Flush free is NOT niacin and does NOT serve the same function. Flush free niacin is INOSITOL HEXANIACINATE

[M1tz1 in reply to enjoysalud]

Thank you, enjoysalud. 🙂

[Rhyothemis]

There's a trial running on niacin (as nicotinic acid) for PD in the US by the Veteran's Administration -

clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show...

[chartist]

C'mon, Gio, where are you? This is one of your favorite vitamins, so I know you must have something to add to this thread!!!

One problem I can see with a randomized double blind placebo controlled study is what about the flushing associated with niacin? How do you compensate for that feature?

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