what is Niacin, and what does it do for you?

Answer 1

Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid or vitamin B3, is a water-soluble vitamin that is part of energy metabolism in the living cell and DNA repair. Niacin helps create several sex and stress-related hormones, particularly those made by the adrenal gland. It is also plays a role in removing toxic and harmful chemicals from the body.
Severe lack of niacin causes the deficiency disease pellagra, wherein a mild deficiency slows down the metabolism decreasing cold tolerance. Dietary niacin deficiency tends to occur only in areas where people eat corn, the only grain low in niacin, as a staple food, and that don't use lime during maize (corn) meal/flour production.
Niacin, when taken in large doses, increases the level of High density lipoprotein (HDL)or "good" cholesterol in blood, and is sometimes prescribed for patients with low HDL, and at high risk of heart attack. Niacin (but not niacinamide) is also used in the treatment of hyperlipidemia because it reduces Very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), a precursor of Low density lipoprotein (LDL) or "bad" cholesterol, secretion from the liver, and inhibits cholesterol synthesis.

Answer 2

Niacin makes peoples face flush because it is also a vasodialator.

Answer 3

Niacin is a cholesterol lowing drug, I tried it but it made my face flush to much couldn’t take it.

Answer 4

it is a white crystalline water-soluble vitamin of the b- complex. it functions as a coenzyme necessary for the breakdown and use of all major nutrients and is essential for a healthy skin, normal function of the gastrointestinal tract, maintenance of the nervous system and some other things

Answer 5

It is a vitamin, an essential nutrient that we need in very small amounts. In large amounts, it improves blood cholesterol and triglycerides. It can damage the liver in large amounts, too.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niacin

Answer 7

All it ever did for me was make my face kinda flush. Supposedly it slows fat metabolism too.