From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 20:42:43 MDT
This stresses the nutritional differences between nicotinic acid and
nicotinamide. Both of these are sold as "vitamin B3" even though they are
not quite interchangeable. Even back in 1993 when I researched my nutrients
catalog, there was enough research to convince me to classify these
substances as separate vitamins. I even included a warning that
nicotinamide was sometimes incorrectly identified as "niacin". Among the
differences known at that time, nicotinamide does not help with skin
problems, gout, liver problems, headaches, ulcers, low blood sugar and
doesn't lower cholesterol levels as the nicotinic acid form did.
I have always avoided the nicotinamide form because it failed to perform as
well as nicotinic acid in so many ways. Now it appears that besides lacking
helpful functionality, the nicotinamide form could have harmful
side-effects. Lucky for me, my vegetarian diet provides the nicotinic acid
mostly found in grains, and avoids the nicotinamide form found in meats.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
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