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.
“I commend you for looking for red flags, but there are NONE there for niacin.”
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Sorry N1P, even water can cause an overdose. I was pounding niacin and developed nodules on my thyroid. I have backed off, but still use sporadically.
ymmv
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.
There was a time, after my initial experimentation with niacin a coupla years ago, that I did crave the flush. That was when it had diminished to the point of only feeling it on my ears and the back of my neck. I thought that felt pleasant. Now, I’m sort of starting over. And I’m not crazy about all of it, especially the itching, but some of the flush I still find pleasant. Trying to get back to where I was, just feeling it above the neck.