No-Flush Niacin

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Monday, March 09, 2009
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What nutritional supplement increases "good" HDL cholesterol 10-20 mg/dl, reduces triglycerides, reduces small LDL particles (the number one cause for heart disease in the U.S.), even reduces risk for heart attack substantially with no side-effects? It doesn't even require a prescription. If...

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Niacin
vickierose
Monday, March 09, 2009 at 02:47 PM

My doctor gave me the same advice about no-flush Niacin but refuses to prescribe Niacin at all. Sadly.

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flushing with Niacin
K. Baumgardner
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 02:57 AM

I am a pharmacist and we often recommend taking an aspirin tablet 20 minutes before the niacin to reduce the flushing. ai am not sure why this works.

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Laura
Monday, March 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM

Bummer! I have some no-flush niacin in my possession right now. Will it do anything at all for me or should I just throw it away? (Obviously I won't be buying more in either case!)

No flush niacin
wordpath
Saturday, May 02, 2009 at 05:36 PM

No flush niacin does work. Today is May 2. On April 8 my triglycerides were 341. Today they are 115. I added no-flush niacin and polycosanate to my diet and stopped eating baked goods and fried food. I ate a lot of oatmeal and oat bran, did water aerobics and did short walks twice a day. Are you saying the no-flush niacin contributed nothing? My Total cholesterol went from 243 to 188, LDL from 137 to 129. My HDL however, went from 38 to 37 - is this because I'm taking the wrong kind of niacin? I understand that niacinamide decreases vessel lining inflammation, but doesn't help in decreasing LDL. Is the Sloniacin actually niacinamide?

How can whole grains be detrimental? Or does that apply only to wheat.

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G
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 01:38 PM

My no flush niacin does work and my cardiologist agrees. My total cholesterol dropped from over 200 to 127. LDL went from 100 to 50 . Triglycerides went from 250 to 150. I take 1500 mg. of the capsules every morning then chase it with a lot of water. It works. Even my nuclear test showed a reversal of plaque build up. I do not agree with the doc. on this web page.

The problem with most patients is they do not adhere to the program.

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skeptic
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 08:43 PM

Niacin's main effect is on HDL. Your HDL dropped from 50 or over to 47. You must have been doing other things to make your total cholesterol and LDL drop that much since that is out of the range of what can usually be done by Niacin of any type