Considered about the side effects of niacin?
Are you thinking about adding niacin to your list of daily supplements?
Many people are reading good reports on niacin for things like high cholesterol and automatically assume that it’s perfectly safe since it’s not a drug.
After all, niacin is also known as Vitamin B3. And if it’s a vitamin, it must be good for you, right?
Well, maybe yes. And then again, maybe not so much.
Yes, our bodies need niacin. It helps convert our foods into energy, it’s good for nerves and skin, and helps your digestive system to function properly.
All important stuff to be sure.
But it’s extremely rare for anyone to be deficient in niacin. This is probably true because it’s so easily found in common foods like eggs, fish, poultry, and meat.
The daily recommended amounts of niacin are only 16 mg for men and 14 mg for women. The body just doesn’t need niacin in large quantities to stay healthy.
So what happens when you supplement with niacin in large doses?
For many people, the body spits out a bunch of nasty symptoms. The list of niacin side effects is long and some are actually pretty serious.
So if you run across a report that talks about the benefits of using niacin … just remember that you might want to check with your doctor first.
There is one study that tried to see if there will be an improvement in the strength of a person’s thumb if he or she mentally exercises as opposed to actually exercising it. When the results came in, it is very interesting to note that the improvement in terms of strength of the thumbs of those who mentally practice and those who actually did thumb exercises did not differ significantly from each other.