Niacin, also known as vitamin B3, is one of the forty to eighty essential human nutrients.
Nicotinamide does not reduce cholesterol or cause flushing. Nicotinamide may be toxic to the liver at doses exceeding 3 g/day for adults.

Niacin is play essential metabolic roles in living cells.

Niacin is involved in both DNA repair, and the production of steroid hormones in the adrenal gland.

Niacin is one of five vitamins associated with a pandemic deficiency disease: niacin deficiency (pellagra), vitamin C deficiency (scurvy), thiamin deficiency (beriberi), vitamin D deficiency (rickets), vitamin A deficiency (night blindness and other symptoms).

Niacin has been used to increase levels of HDL cholesterol in the blood and has been found to modestly decrease the risk of cardiovascular events in a number of controlled human trials.

Daily dose for Vitamin B3 – 50mg

Food that contains vitamin B3 : Brewer’s yeast, Chicken, white meat, Dried beans/peas, Peanuts, Salmon, Soybeans, Swordfish, Tuna, Turkey