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Dmitry Kats, PhD: From Niatonin to Niacur

Mastering Nutrition

CHAPTER

The Flushing Response to Niacin

The Institute of Medicine's report on niacin, where they made the RDA's, introduces signs and symptoms of toxicity as basically flushing. And if things get worse, you can have worse than glucose tolerance, elevated homocysteine, liver damage, blurred vision, lazy eye. In rodents, you can kill them. I don't know if I don't think they've ever traced a death in humans niacin but there's an LD50 for it in rodents.

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