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Newsletter – Version Two

I am going to push out a super quick newsletter every day-ish until I run out of steam and cannot continue. It could be here for a while.

I will keep each newsletter to one topic so it is quick to read, and with subject matter that is interesting and useful.

Let’s see what happens with sign-ups.

This is the newsletter::

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11 responses to “Newsletter – Version Two”

  1. Deb Weyrich-Cody

    Bit of an oops there David. Niacin is one of the B Vitamins (B3) while D3 is actually called “the sunshine vitamin” because it’s produced by our skin when it’s exposed to sunlight (and why using sunscreen/sunblocks constantly is not a good thing).
    Here’s a fairly good article pointing out the differences between and how our bodies use Niacin vs Niacinamide… https://martinswellness.com/blog/post/niacin-vs-niacinamide

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    1. David Bennett

      The article in Nature is suggesting that the rampant fortifying of foods with niacin can lead to too much niacin in the body, which in turn can cause cardiac muscle. inflation.

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      1. Deb Weyrich-Cody

        Hmm…. Will have to take a look at the info of which you speak
        But, with Niacin being one of the B Vitamins, not sure how that could be. More here: https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/supplement/vitamin-b3-niacin

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        1. David Bennett

          That was the finding – that in an effort to counteract low levels of vitamin B, manufacturers have been adding it in all processed foods and unwittingly causing damage.
          I am not surprised that an excess of a vitamin can cause damage because I recall reading years ago abut the danger in eating polar bear liver. Polar bears store large quantities of vitamin A in their livers and that excess vitamin A in humans can cause liver cirrhosis, damage to the central nervous system, and osteoporosis in bones.

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          1. Deb Weyrich-Cody

            Yes, while it is possible to have issues with an excessive intake of Vitamin D as it is fat based and, as you stated, stored in the liver – however, as the B Vitamins are water soluble, they are not stored in the body and any excess amounts are flushed out in the urine (thus the bright yellow of what we call ‘Vitamin B pee’ being the result after taking a B Complex and losing any excess shortly afterward.
            More on Niacin (Vit B3) here *and please note the mention of excessive amounts being associated with prescription against high cholesterol…
            https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/niacin-vitamin-b3/

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          2. Deb Weyrich-Cody

            And, as my Grandmother liked to say: “All things (should be taken) in moderation”

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          3. Deb Weyrich-Cody

            Likely because you haven’t vetted it, but I haven’t yet seen my latest comment regarding B Vitamins being water-soluble – therefore any excess is promptly flushed through the kidneys – and the normal prophylactic doses in vitamin supplementation being incapable of causing issues. But in it I included a link from Harvard University which mentions medical prescriptions of niacin being given for high cholesterol which are capable of such harm; but I quote the wisdom passed down from successive generations when as my Grandmother often said “We are what we eat” and that our bodies have developed over millennia to use the nutrients contained in healthy food and where a diet containing “all things in moderation” is safe and would not.

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            1. David Bennett

              That’s the thing isn’t it. If we had a mutually caring society then producers would make wholesome food. But we don’t, and producers are always looking to produce what is appetising and profitable at the expense of what is wholesome. And when times are hard, people will bulk up on the cheapest food. And yet, it doesn’t account for the epidemic of obesity surely because buying huge amounts of poor quality food will be expensive. My guess is that poor food contains addictive additives, and once someone is hooked…

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      2. Deb Weyrich-Cody

        Is this the article from’Nature’ of which you spoke David? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02793-8

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        1. David Bennett

          Yes, that’s the one.

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          1. Deb Weyrich-Cody

            Well, I have a lot of questions about this ‘study’ – would like to know exactly what was the source of this niacin which produced these metabolites as a by-product which were then found and measured (and how was it administered – as actual food, as a dietary supplement, as an injection, etc) that these people were given – as in, and that’s just for a start ?
            Because – in my opinion – there’s a massive amount of terminological gobble-d-gook in these few lines of script that really don’t say all that much other than their sample size!

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