Niacin

[tara]

Lyme: 12 years of experience

For the psychiatric presentations of Lyme disease I use large doses of Niacin. Niacinamide and no-flush Niacin do not work. 3-6 gms in 3-4 divided doses often show amazing results. It appears that NIACIN HAS TREMENDOUS ANTIBIOTIC POTENTIAL AGAINST ALL TYPES OF BORRELIA (12). I suspect that our mentor and genius in orthomolecular psychiatry, Abraham Hoffer, MD discovered a treatment for Bb long before Lyme-disease was known.

Vitamin B-3: Niacin and Its Amide
by A. Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
Organic Confusional States, non-Alzheimers forms of dementia, electroconvulsive therapy-induced memory disturbances.

The best-known vitamin deficiency disease is pellagra. More accurately it is a tryptophan deficiency disease since tryptophan alone can cure the early stages. Pellagra was endemic in the southern U.S.A. until the beginning of the last world war. It can be described by the four D's: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia and death. The dementia is a late stage phenomenon. In the early stages it resembles much more the schizophrenias, and can only with difficulty be distinguished from it. The only certain method used by early pellagrologists was to give their patients in the mental hospitals small amounts of nicotinic acid. If they recovered they diagnosed them pellagra, if they did not they diagnosed them schizophrenia. This was good for some of their patients but was not good for psychiatry since it prevented any continuing interest in working with the vitamin for their patients who did not recover fast, but who might have done so had they given them a lot more for a much longer period of time, the way we started doing this in Saskatchewan. I consider it one of the schizophrenic syndromes.
In 1954 I observed how nicotinic acid relieved a severe case of post ECT amnesia in one month. Since then I have routinely given it in conjunction with ECT to markedly decrease the memory disturbance that may occur during and after this treatment. I would never give any patient ECT without the concomitant use of nicotinic acid. It is very helpful, especially in cardiovascular-induced forms of dementia as it reverses sludging of the red blood cell and permits proper oxygenation of the cells of the body. For further information see Niacin Therapy in Psychiatry. [8]

In September 1992, Mr. C., 76 years-old, requested help with his memory. He was terribly absentminded. If he decided to do something, by the time he arrived where he wanted to do it he had forgotten what it was he wanted to do. His short-term memory was very poor and his long-term memory was beginning to be affected. I started him on a comprehensive vitamin program including niacinamide 1.5 G daily. Within a month he began to improve. I added niacin to his program. By February 1993 he was normal. April 26, 1993, he told me he had been so well he had concluded he no longer needed any niacin and decreased the dose from 3.0 G to 1.5 G daily. He remained on the rest of the program. Soon he noted that his short term memory was failing him again. I advised him to stay on the full dose the rest of his life.

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html

Advanced niacin deficiency, or pellagra, actually causes psychosis, as well as the skin and gastrointestinal problems. You may need more niacin than the average person, probably a lot more. At really large doses, niacin has a profound calming, sedating effect. Yet it is not a drug, but a nutrient. The safety margin is huge. Dr. Hoffer has prescribed as much as 20,000 milligrams a day. Therefore 3,000 milligrams is actually not a particularly high dose.

http://www.weeksmd.com/articles/psyc...AM_HOFFER.html

ORTHOMOLECULAR VITAMIN INFORMATION CENTRE Inc.?Suite 3A – 2727 Quadra Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8T 4E5?Telephone 250-386-8756 Fax 250-386-5828
Abram Hoffer PhD, RNCP, President, and Frances Fuller, RNCP (Cand.), CEO

A group of scientists from Merck, Cheng et al, wrote, "Nicotinic acid has been used to treat dyslipidemia for about 50 years. Used in high doses, it reduces plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, triglycerides, and lipoproteins(a) and increases high density lipoprotein cholesterol and apolipoprotein A-1. Nicotinic acid has been shown to have cardiovascular benefit when used alone or in combination with statins in several clinical trials..." and "A selective DP antagonist [one of their products] would significantly suppress symptoms of nicotinic acid induced flushing raising the possibility that this approach could be used to increase the tolerability of nicotinic acid thereby allowing more patients to access the demonstrated cardiac benefits of this underutilized drug". In brief, nicotinic acid increases longevity.

Many years ago the vice president of a major American company in charge of states west of the Mississippi asked his large administrative staff for volunteers to take niacin, a vitamin that decreases heart attacks and extends life; I myself have been taking it for over fifty years. He told me that after one year the initiative and industry he had seen when they first assembled after the war and were all brought together - which had gradually deteriorated - was suddenly back again. He was amazed and pleased at the renewed energy and administrative skills his staff regained. Niacin helps keep cognitive skills alive, and has been found by the Center for Disease Control, U.S. , to decrease the incidence of Alzheimer's.

http://www.orthomolecularvitamincentre.com/services.php
http://www.orthomolecularvitamincentre.com/index.php

[tara]

Lyme: 12 years of experience

For the psychiatric presentations of Lyme disease I use large doses of Niacin. Niacinamide and no-flush Niacin do not work. 3-6 gms in 3-4 divided doses often show amazing results. It appears that NIACIN HAS TREMENDOUS ANTIBIOTIC POTENTIAL AGAINST ALL TYPES OF BORRELIA (12). I suspect that our mentor and genius in orthomolecular psychiatry, Abraham Hoffer, MD discovered a treatment for Bb long before Lyme-disease was known.

Vitamin B-3: Niacin and Its Amide
by A. Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
Organic Confusional States, non-Alzheimers forms of dementia, electroconvulsive therapy-induced memory disturbances.

The best-known vitamin deficiency disease is pellagra. More accurately it is a tryptophan deficiency disease since tryptophan alone can cure the early stages. Pellagra was endemic in the southern U.S.A. until the beginning of the last world war. It can be described by the four D's: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia and death. The dementia is a late stage phenomenon. In the early stages it resembles much more the schizophrenias, and can only with difficulty be distinguished from it. The only certain method used by early pellagrologists was to give their patients in the mental hospitals small amounts of nicotinic acid. If they recovered they diagnosed them pellagra, if they did not they diagnosed them schizophrenia. This was good for some of their patients but was not good for psychiatry since it prevented any continuing interest in working with the vitamin for their patients who did not recover fast, but who might have done so had they given them a lot more for a much longer period of time, the way we started doing this in Saskatchewan. I consider it one of the schizophrenic syndromes.
In 1954 I observed how nicotinic acid relieved a severe case of post ECT amnesia in one month. Since then I have routinely given it in conjunction with ECT to markedly decrease the memory disturbance that may occur during and after this treatment. I would never give any patient ECT without the concomitant use of nicotinic acid. It is very helpful, especially in cardiovascular-induced forms of dementia as it reverses sludging of the red blood cell and permits proper oxygenation of the cells of the body. For further information see Niacin Therapy in Psychiatry. [8]

In September 1992, Mr. C., 76 years-old, requested help with his memory. He was terribly absentminded. If he decided to do something, by the time he arrived where he wanted to do it he had forgotten what it was he wanted to do. His short-term memory was very poor and his long-term memory was beginning to be affected. I started him on a comprehensive vitamin program including niacinamide 1.5 G daily. Within a month he began to improve. I added niacin to his program. By February 1993 he was normal. April 26, 1993, he told me he had been so well he had concluded he no longer needed any niacin and decreased the dose from 3.0 G to 1.5 G daily. He remained on the rest of the program. Soon he noted that his short term memory was failing him again. I advised him to stay on the full dose the rest of his life.

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html

Advanced niacin deficiency, or pellagra, actually causes psychosis, as well as the skin and gastrointestinal problems. You may need more niacin than the average person, probably a lot more. At really large doses, niacin has a profound calming, sedating effect. Yet it is not a drug, but a nutrient. The safety margin is huge. Dr. Hoffer has prescribed as much as 20,000 milligrams a day. Therefore 3,000 milligrams is actually not a particularly high dose.

http://www.weeksmd.com/articles/psyc...AM_HOFFER.html

ORTHOMOLECULAR VITAMIN INFORMATION CENTRE Inc.?Suite 3A – 2727 Quadra Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8T 4E5?Telephone 250-386-8756 Fax 250-386-5828
Abram Hoffer PhD, RNCP, President, and Frances Fuller, RNCP (Cand.), CEO

A group of scientists from Merck, Cheng et al, wrote, "Nicotinic acid has been used to treat dyslipidemia for about 50 years. Used in high doses, it reduces plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, triglycerides, and lipoproteins(a) and increases high density lipoprotein cholesterol and apolipoprotein A-1. Nicotinic acid has been shown to have cardiovascular benefit when used alone or in combination with statins in several clinical trials..." and "A selective DP antagonist [one of their products] would significantly suppress symptoms of nicotinic acid induced flushing raising the possibility that this approach could be used to increase the tolerability of nicotinic acid thereby allowing more patients to access the demonstrated cardiac benefits of this underutilized drug". In brief, nicotinic acid increases longevity.

Many years ago the vice president of a major American company in charge of states west of the Mississippi asked his large administrative staff for volunteers to take niacin, a vitamin that decreases heart attacks and extends life; I myself have been taking it for over fifty years. He told me that after one year the initiative and industry he had seen when they first assembled after the war and were all brought together - which had gradually deteriorated - was suddenly back again. He was amazed and pleased at the renewed energy and administrative skills his staff regained. Niacin helps keep cognitive skills alive, and has been found by the Center for Disease Control, U.S. , to decrease the incidence of Alzheimer's.

http://www.orthomolecularvitamincentre.com/services.php
http://www.orthomolecularvitamincentre.com/index.php

[ladycolorado]

wow i am reading so many good posts in here. niacin, huh? i should get some of it to try. this is a really good post, although i was not diagnosed with any psychiatric problems, in extreme situations i have problems controlling my temper. like when i was crossing stret with hubbie on crosswalk said walk mean guys tried to plow through me had to dodge the car. oh, and they gave me the bird too. i got really mad started shouting. and the greyhound dude wasting four days of an iv med, asked security guy to open hard outer casing, he slashed bag, wasted four doses. yes i got very mad, as i was away i nm did not ride bus home that day, was bad. the worst was one day with my new roomates. we all ussually laugh get along well, but they were having dumb lamo argument. i was getting tired of the noise, so i made my own. i went into kitchen, procedded to break my own plates. needless to say things were peaceful instantly. i would never hurt anyone, and i hate this because i know it is the disease talking. i am also considering purchasing the kava tea was posted, as long as my doc says these things okay, (LC).

[ladycolorado]

wow i am reading so many good posts in here. niacin, huh? i should get some of it to try. this is a really good post, although i was not diagnosed with any psychiatric problems, in extreme situations i have problems controlling my temper. like when i was crossing stret with hubbie on crosswalk said walk mean guys tried to plow through me had to dodge the car. oh, and they gave me the bird too. i got really mad started shouting. and the greyhound dude wasting four days of an iv med, asked security guy to open hard outer casing, he slashed bag, wasted four doses. yes i got very mad, as i was away i nm did not ride bus home that day, was bad. the worst was one day with my new roomates. we all ussually laugh get along well, but they were having dumb lamo argument. i was getting tired of the noise, so i made my own. i went into kitchen, procedded to break my own plates. needless to say things were peaceful instantly. i would never hurt anyone, and i hate this because i know it is the disease talking. i am also considering purchasing the kava tea was posted, as long as my doc says these things okay, (LC).

[Gator]

Thanks Tara,

Great information on Niacin. I knew it was good for the blood, but the additional information is WONDERFUL !

Thanks. This is an example of why I am fighting to keep Alternative and Complementary Health Care open to us, if Codex and FDA win, then all supplements will be place under prescription drugs as well as treatments like Acupuncture, Massage therapy, etc. Please sign the petition. you can find the web sites under alternative and complementary Medicine. Comments are open until May 30, 2007.
Thanks,
Gator
Bubba's quote:" If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it"

Gosh, I miss Bubba!

[Gator]

Thanks Tara,

Great information on Niacin. I knew it was good for the blood, but the additional information is WONDERFUL !

Thanks. This is an example of why I am fighting to keep Alternative and Complementary Health Care open to us, if Codex and FDA win, then all supplements will be place under prescription drugs as well as treatments like Acupuncture, Massage therapy, etc. Please sign the petition. you can find the web sites under alternative and complementary Medicine. Comments are open until May 30, 2007.
Thanks,
Gator
Bubba's quote:" If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it"

Gosh, I miss Bubba!