Re: Jim- Niacin flush

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Yes. It is interesting stuff.

The areas where I flush with it is not the typical areas (neck chest

and face where the skin is thin)..

It's my understanding that the flush only comes from nicotinic acid

(the niacin form) and not niacinamide.

Read the adverse reactions (reference 2)

Niacin is one of the Vits where more is not better.

(high timed-release doses are hard on the liver)

Barb

http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com/data/studies/5.htm

http://www.pdrhealth.com/drug_info/nmdrugprofiles/nutsupdrugs/nia_0184

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> Barb-

> Niacin is interesting stuff. It turns out, according

> to Stratton's very sophisticated work on Chlam P, that

> the niacin compounds also kill Chlamydia in " ... the

> replicating and cryptic stationary phases... "

> especially when they infect monocytes, macrophages,

> " ...and in the chalmydial infection of endothelial and

> smooth muscle cells in human blood vessels. " (all

> quotes from and Stratton's patent 6,756,369)

>

> I've found that, for some reason, the " no flush "

> niacin (inositol hexanicotinate) seems to have more

> effect in this way than regular niacin or niacinamide.

> I react to it like I react to a dose of Flagyl in the

> pecular quality of herx. I put this forward because it

> may be that your reactions are not just to the blood

> flow effects of the niacin, but that it may be

> antimicrobial to organisms in a cryptic/nonreplicating

> phase like Chalmydia. As far as I know, only

> and Stratton have found these agents as having this

> effect (they also are the only ones who appear to have

> found that nitrofurantoin, an old and not very

> effective urinary tract abx, acts similarly to flagyl

> in killing cryptic/nonreplicating phase of Chlamydia).

>