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Does anyone supplement additional B3 and why?

dcoen21

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I started taking an additional 50mg twice a day, recently I woke up with these red patches on my hands and found out I could be deficient in b3.
 
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dcoen21 said:
I started taking an additional 50mg twice a day, recently I woke up with these red patches on my hands and found out I could be I’m deficient in b3.
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I do not.
But I am going to try it, for the purported sleep benefits, and improved lipid profile.

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Renew1 said:
I do not.
But I am going to try it, for the purported sleep benefits, and improved lipid profile.

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Huh. That’s cool as hell. I’m gonna have to try that. Also, in the abstract, that says that a COX inhibitor eliminated the effect on sleep. Would NSAIDs interfere with sleep to an extent?
 
Jeremyk1 said:
Huh. That’s cool as hell. I’m gonna have to try that. Also, in the abstract, that says that a COX inhibitor eliminated the effect on sleep. Would NSAIDs interfere with sleep to an extent?
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I take an extra 50mg here and there while navigating my sleep and overmethylation stuff. Are y'all taking it right before bed?
 
GreenMachineX said:
I take an extra 50mg here and there while navigating my sleep and overmethylation stuff. Are y'all taking it right before bed?
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I take 50mg with breakfast and lunch along with a b complex, deep sleep has improved. Only thing I take before bed which I have been doing for months is magnesium and vitamin d. A lot of things increase my deep sleep when I first take them but then they stop, so hoping this stays the same with the improved sleep.
 
dcoen21 said:
I take 50mg with breakfast and lunch along with a b complex, deep sleep has improved. Only thing I take before bed which I have been doing for months is magnesium and vitamin d. A lot of things increase my deep sleep when I first take them but then they stop, so hoping this stays the same with the improved sleep.
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You take the b complex twice per day too?
 
Yes when I am sick. COVID depletes it heavily and this is the primary reason for “long COVID” in some. It’s just symptoms of niacin deficiency.

My toddler in daycare brings home stuff so often now I just assume one of these viruses will be COVID again at some point, so I try to get ahead of it with an extra 50mg per day for a week or so at a time when I know I have some kind of throat discomfort. It’s insanely cheap and I have no side effects at that low dose. B vitamins aren’t particularly risky, beyond being wasteful, as they’re water-soluble.

~1-200mg daily of flushing niacin is usually plenty to remedy long COVID symptoms it was found, btw. “Flush-free” still works but you need to take more of it.
 
Battousai said:
Yes, a couple grams a day. It's great for leveling out HDL and LDL.
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I’ve seen that, but they also concluded that there doesn’t seem to be any improvement in actual mortality rates with niacin use even though lipids routinely improved.

Which makes me wonder if I’m wasting my time with my Ezetimibe, but it has zero side effects for me, unlike niacin.
 
Resolve10 said:
I take extra daily (100mg usually).

Higher dosages have shown some potential for issues with insulin sensitivity fwiw.

I still remember the old Nimbus Nutrition hydration product with a solid dose (no idea what anymore) that was causing flushing in people. Was fun handling those questions all the time.
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Poseidon? Poseidon Night Time? Man I loved that product
 
Hyde said:
Yes when I am sick. COVID depletes it heavily and this is the primary reason for “long COVID” in some. It’s just symptoms of niacin deficiency.

My toddler in daycare brings home stuff so often now I just assume one of these viruses will be COVID again at some point, so I try to get ahead of it with an extra 50mg per day for a week or so at a time when I know I have some kind of throat discomfort. It’s insanely cheap and I have no side effects at that low dose. B vitamins aren’t particularly risky, beyond being wasteful, as they’re water-soluble.

~1-200mg daily of flushing niacin is usually plenty to remedy long COVID symptoms it was found, btw. “Flush-free” still works but you need to take more of it.
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Any reason to not just stay on 100-200mg niacin forever with a B complex?

I also wonder if when I had covid, it depleted my niacin which is the reason I had such bad insomnia when I had covid.
 
GreenMachineX said:
Any reason to not just stay on 100-200mg niacin forever with a B complex?

I also wonder if when I had covid, it depleted my niacin which is the reason I had such bad insomnia when I had covid.
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If you try to follow upper tolerable limits, it’s 35mg for day in/out indefinite use in the US. What can possibly go wrong if you indefinitely exceed that, I have no idea.

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In reality, I don’t know a reason to intentionally exceed ~50mg daily considering 100mg will correct a COVID deficiency fairly quickly. Most B complexes will be more than sufficient when looking at routine use. Unless your doctor has established some kind of greater deficiency from a diagnosis, obviously.
 
Hyde said:
If you try to follow upper tolerable limits, it’s 35mg for day in/out indefinite use in the US. What can possibly go wrong if you indefinitely exceed that, I have no idea.

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In reality, I don’t know a reason to intentionally exceed ~50mg daily considering 100mg will correct a COVID deficiency fairly quickly. Most B complexes will be more than sufficient when looking at routine use. Unless your doctor has established some kind of greater deficiency from a diagnosis, obviously.
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I don't really pay attention to those for the most part. 50mg is necessary for me to feel right, and now seeing if an extra 50mg on top of that works better.
 
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