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Niacin, Part 1: What It Is and Why You Need It | Mastering Nutrition #44

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The Biochemistry of How We Get Rid of Excess Niacen From Food

The pathways to any de synthesis are different depending on whether we're getting n from animal form, from plant form or from protein. If we can't convert nicatin mide into an a d fast enough, then we need to clear it through etoxification. Nicatinic acid has its own toxification pathway, and that is that it is conjugated to glycine and amino acid That generates nicotenuric acid, which is named because is the form ofnicatinic acid that winds up in the urine. And so these etoxification pathways are superrelevant to the toxicity that we can get from any of these forms of niasen. So ihave alex

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