Doc Gumshoe closes out the year with looks at niacin, Co-Q10, carnosine, telomeres and more...
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I investigated them quite a bit a couple of years ago. My non-expert opinion is that they tried to produce a slightly di...
I have consumed thousands of raw eggs for better health of brain & body. At least 1 dozen large a day, every day for...
Are you saying that's the current state of affairs in Cambodia? In the USA, white rice has been enriched with thiamin (a...
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Many people are allergic to niacin, including myself. Incredibly itchy midriff. I used it for my cholesterol...
Thanks, Doc!Hi jking. Niacin or niacinamide can be given oral, IV or IM (as in for Pellagra). It is only being used ...
Memories of Life Extension circa 1980 by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. At their minimum they give you far more detail to...
"Omega-3 fatty acids may be useful in persons whose lipid imbalance is primarily a matter of elevated triglycerides; the...
That must have been more than ten years ago! Niacin (Vitamin B3) does indeed increase HDL cholesterol and lower trigly...
What did you think about the quote in the N Y Times (about a decade ago?), where the President of the college of cardio...
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Frank: I doubt Merck would snap up Esperion merely to make it go away. It's always good to have a multipilicity of ways ...
Thank You Dr. I am 71 years old and am a user of niacin and nicotinamide riboside. I especially like that nicotinamide r...
To George and others. The issue in treating dyslipidemia is not solely based on the levels of LDL, HDL, etc. At issue i...
one more on Niacin http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25708553...
hers one not favorable about niacin http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24641964...
Dr. KSS saw you made a comment directed to subramania on ESPR-so basically you also addressed my concerns after reading ...
Thanks Dr. KSS I noticed the reference to Niacin in the PCSK9 article and I had seen the reference before in the litera...
one side bar the studies that discredited niacin as I have stated before were seriously flawed-will not impact any stock...
Thanks Frank.....yes, there may be an nth factor that statins are addressing (that niacin and fibrates miss) that we don...
Yes, niacin can augment HDL, though I don't find it totally clear that such patients have better HDL function as regards...
agree with Dr. KSS- would have had more from much lower levels because I felt that other currently available agents like...
In my personal opinion it is not. Just speaking about its pharmacology and the target it acts on it is a very weak agent...
One of the up and coming pharma outfits, about 5 years ago (I want to say Arena, but they would not be this dumb) put MI...
Agree. I took niacin for quite awhile but as nothing I read convinced me to keep taking it and my cholesterol remained a...
Peter, what I am sorta kinda hoping for is that Roger Newton, who knows lipid science better than anyone, can postulate ...
Niacin does nada.http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1300955I am hoping this will be the final death knel...
Steven: thanks for reading and writing. No, niacin is not hepatotoxic at that dose. It takes at least 2000 mg and usuall...
Doc, is there any liver toxicity with taking Niacin at 500mg? Does it actually increase HDL?...
Doc GumShoe - I did not keep my copy of the study on Vitamin K. And I do not know whether it was published. In 1999,...
I wanted to get to some of the stocks brought up by a new member of this group, Brian Frank (I think that is his name! H...
Thanks to Travis, Dr. Gumshoe, and the contributors to this thread for a very interesting discussion. I had seen the new...
I would never take statins. I take niacin. The old kind that makes you flush. I take 2-3grams per day in divided doses. ...
Doc Gumshoe: Not a bad summary for a non-MD. I might finetune some of your comments about diabetes, but you are accurate...
In response to the Resveratrol. Pterostilbene is very similar to it, but lasts longer and has more benefits. Chromadex ...
Pycnogenol is very effective in controlling cholesterol, but even Niacin NF does a decent job of that too. Statins on ...