Niacin can significantly reduce arthritis pain. Watch to find out how to take niacin correctly!
Hey dr aj here if you have arthritis exercise is one of the best ways to improve your pain but that’s really difficult with stiff and painful joints luckily there’s an easier way to do this using a simple vitamin in this video i’ll tell you how to use niacin to cut down your arthritis pain to take for it to be effective and
One more thing you need to know before taking niacin so niacin is a b vitamin that is an essential nutrient we need it to function it’s involved in over 500 different chemical processes in the body not having enough niacin for these processes can cause disease while restoring them can reverse disease severe deficiency
Can cause a lot of problems including serious issues with your mental health and can be fatal but most people aren’t use some more to have some very positive effects the trick is to dose it correctly or else it won’t work which i’ll get to in a minute physicians to start treating arthritis with niacin
In 1937. he had a patient with such bad arthritis in his elbow that he couldn’t even lift his arm to get a blood pressure reading without significant pain this doctor put him on high dose niacinamide and lifting the arm became no problem to test out if this was really working he switched the real niacin for a placebo
And the pain came right back this doctor went on to use high-dose niacin to treat arthritis in hundreds of patients with great success in general he found that niacin and decreased fatigue ability and reduced or eliminated arthritic joint pain but the key is in the dosage it takes a high dose spread out over
The day to have the best pain relieving results he recommends 250 milligrams every 90 minutes for a day niacin is very safe much safer than over-the-counter medication people do not die from niacin in fact it actually extends life because it also lowers your ldl cholesterol the bad one and raises hdl cholesterol which is
The good one so remember this isn’t medical advice so it’s best to consult with your doctor before starting niacin therapy especially if you have liver disease and keep in mind it can take a few months or longer of taking niacin to get the full benefit but you should start to notice some improvement after even
Just a few days now be warned if you take niacin you will experience a flush the larger the dose the more of a flush you will have it’s okay to start with a smaller dose and work your way up with a flush you will feel warmth starting in your forehead and it will travel down your face go down to your toes the first time
I took niacin and turned my whole body red it will pass after 30 minutes or so but most people kind of freak out if they aren’t expecting it it helps to take it with food and you will flush less and less with each dose and after a few weeks most people have little to no flesh response to avoid the flesh you
Can take a non-fleshing form of niacin called niacinamide it is also effective in reducing arthritis pain but some people feel the flushing form is more effective as well as a book on niacin if you’re interested in learning more i’m not making this stuff up it’s well researched in this book and is where i got a
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How To Eliminate Arthritis Pain With Vitamin B3 (Niacin) By Stronglife Physiotherapy