Too much niacin can also stress the liver so it is wise to be cautious.
The amount of niacin that would be needed to be ingested in order to stress the liver is actually a difficult amount to get used to. Ted is taking 6,000 mg/day, and his liver is fine, I bet. Also, a very important thing to remember about taking individual B vitamins is that the body is designed to metabolize all the B complex together, and taking individual B vitamins can cause a deficiency of some of the others. To be safe, whenever you take a significant amount of a specific B vitamin (like niacin, or B12), or take it for an extended time, it is good to be ingesting a total B complex food, like nutritional yeast, or taking a B complex supplement that contains ALL the B vitamins (not just the ones the doctors think are important). A good, food-source, comprehensive B complex supplement would be the kind where you need to take several capsules/tablets per meal/day, rather than the One-A-Day type, which only has a few synthetically-made B vitamins. Besides the fact that it wouldnt hurt you to be getting extra B vitamins, it would also provide your body with the ones needed to help metabolize the niacin or whatever. The doctor I first read about (forgot his name) who uses mega-doses of niacin to very successfully treat schizophrenia used 30,000 mg/day (injection, not orally). He was the one who also mentioned the need to add generous amounts of the whole B complex, from food sources, not synthetically made. Terry Chamberlin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
