Is there a blood-serum level known to be “optimal” for (real)Niacin?
Do we know what we should be walking around with everyday in our blood to be considered “Niacin healthy”?
Should we check for it?
Aside
Seems like information here ||and elsewhere|| is that you should take enough to “feel the flush” and if you don’t feel the flush, up your dose until you do feel the flush.
And that “the flush” is to be achieved every day.
Not to cast negativity intentionally but, that was the same reasoning I had when I was boozing every day...”feel the flush”.
So, this discussion causes red flags for me and my obsessive tendencies.
The last tare sheet I saw did not include niacin, which tells you a lot. You can check for it without being poked. You take 500mg and if the flush reaches your toes, you're deficient.
I commend you for looking for red flags, but there are NONE there for niacin. It's one of those hidden cures where the pharmas use it basted in petroleum products, patent it, and call it their own (statins). I've coached maybe 100 people personally (including some here and my 15 year old 80 lb dog) that have benefited greatly from high dose niacin. Again, the bottom line is massive reductions in inflammation. The benefits of that alone are enough to raise pharam's red flags. Less inflammation = less health issues. That's an indisputable fact.
As for feeling the flush, you will always feel the flush and it's never exactly comfortable. It's akin to eating a lot of capsicums in a way. It's always gonna burn. I, personally, have never "craved" a flush. I just embrace it.