Niacin is a B vitamin that’s made and used by your body to turn food into energy. It helps keep your nervous system, digestive system and skin healthy.
Niacin (vitamin B-3) is often part of a daily multivitamin, but most people get enough niacin from the food they eat. Foods rich in niacin include yeast, milk, meat, tortillas and cereal grains.
Signs of Deficiency
A severe niacin deficiency leads to pellagra, a condition that causes a dark, sometimes scaly rash to develop on skin areas exposed to sunlight; bright redness of the tongue; and constipation/diarrhea. Other signs of severe niacin deficiency include: Depression, Headache, Fatigue, Memory loss and Hallucinations.
Some of Benefits of Vitamin B-3
- Niacin may help to improve your blood fat levels by: increasing your HDL (good) cholesterol, reducing your LDL (bad) LDL cholesterol and reducing your triglyceride levels.
- One role of niacin is to release prostaglandins, or chemicals that help your blood vessels widen improving blood flow and reducing blood pressure.
- Boost Brain Function: Your brain needs niacin — as a part of the coenzymes NAD and NADP — to get energy and function properly. In fact, brain fog and even psychiatric symptoms are associated with niacin deficiency.
- Improves skin health: Niacin helps protect skin cells from sun damage.
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