Niacin vs. Niacinamide

I'd like to explain the difference between the two different forms of B3 we have niin and we have netmite the two big differences are this niin will give you the flush okay that flushing response the vasodilation response but nicomide won't so it's a non-flush effect of B3 other important distinction is with niin you get all the lipid benefits okay so you have all all these great benefits with um lowering cholesterol lowering LDL increasing HDL decreasing inflammation inside the artery whereas niacinamide does not have those benefits so if you're trying to lower your cholesterol niin is

the one you want to use now both of these vitamins chemically work in a similar way especially in turning food into energy Now nasin is really effective for fatty liver not just a fatty liver but a liver that's inflamed uh a liver that is developing Scar Tissue like in therosis and so nasin is a really good to remove fat from your liver now what's interesting about this B3 both nin and niacinamide is the amount of research that is done on this compound I mean it's like it's mindblowing and to me I'm just curious like why

would they do all this research on something that's like a a vitamin it's so cheap when that competes for certain drugs I mean they found nasin to be a standalone effective remedy for managing your cholesterol and doctors used to use uh nasin before Statin came on stage but if you dig a little bit further you're going to see um quite a few articles and uh internet links to the dangers of nasin so I want to talk about that you know it's a lot of discouragement from using nin because it could be dangerous to your liver

can create liver toxicity and if you actually read some of these articles you would never take niin well if you dig a little further you're going to find out that it's rare it's usually involved with a certain percent of the population like 20% of the population that is taking very high doses over a long period of Time and Time release nin it's actually not as common as you might think I mean when you think about even watching a commercial a drug commercial in the US I mean may cause projectile vomiting suicide it might put you

in coma and you might die I mean think about the side effects from medication and then you compare that to some rare side effect from a vitamin it just does not compare I mean you know any medication that doesn't produce side effects very commonly now there is one article I want to bring up just right now um related to ni and increasing your liver enzymes right which again is rare but one doctor had an interesting um commentary on that that point because when you start to increase niin and you start to increase this co-actor of

making energy not just in your liver but in all the organs apparently there's going to be more demand for liver enzymes to make that happen so one potential possible reason for an increase in liver enzymes is just that you're converting more energy and giving more energy to the rest of the body so now that I got that out of the way let's talk about some other benefits nin apparently it has been effective for schizophrenia now there is some data related to certain genetic variations or problems which can put someone at risk for having schizophrenia and

apparently this Gene which is n a p r T1 is the enzyme for making niin interesting coincidence so if any of you know anyone with schizophrenia definitely haven't watch this video and there's also another uh condition that I want to bring up called drug induced discinesia which is a condition where you're having these involuntary abnormal movements of your body and there's some great research on adding nasin and manganese for that condition so if you have discinesia you may want to use those two things so now let's shift over to naside talk a little bit more

about that what other conditions has this been shown to be effective in well number one acne dermatitis rosacea and even psoriasis both taking in capsule form as well as in a crane there's a lot of things that it can help you with that I'm not going to get into but basically it'll lower your histamines it will reduce uh certain immune inflammatory factors it'll help decrease the flaking or the plaques on your skin and for acne it can actually help decrease sebum which is the oil in the SA gland which is inflamed Nomine has also been

effective for arthritis it's used a lot with certain facial creams for preventing aging and hyperpigmentation Nomine is also good for the person who has a temper uh you can give it to your kids that have have a temper tantrum and it'll just chill them out it's good for anxiety okay and so is B1 but B3 is also good as I was reading the side effect from n you know I was just thinking what if you became deficient in B3 what would be the side effects of that right people don't talk about that that's called pgra

that is a serious condition where you have diarrhea you have depression uh you could die you can get dementia and develop a really serious skin disorder but you can develop a B3 deficiency by drinking a lot of alcohol by consuming a lot of refin F Foods especially corn apparently corn tends to bind up uh tryptophan which is amino acid that turns into niin and so the early Indians when they used to um use Ma or corn in their food they had a technique they would soak it in lime and that would alkalize this corn meal

and that would free up the nasin that was necessary to prevent pgra but of of course nowadays we don't do that right we just grind up the corn and we just eat it in corn chips and all sorts of foods but if you're living on a diet just of corn chances are you probably are going to develop pgra in summary nasin gives you the flesh Nomine won't give you the flesh nasin is really good for cholesterol all aspects of cholesterol your lipids and a fatty liver it's good for all that it's also good for schizophrenia

discinesia and then nicomide is really good for um everything related to the skin and inflammation and arthritis and anxiety now since we touched on these lipids and cholesterol I did an exclusive video on the relationship between taking niin and what it can do for your cholesterol in more detail you should check that out I put it up right here