Posted on 09/29/2023 11:40:21 AM PDT by ransomnote
I’m sorry to hear about the rash. You’re not the only one to have experienced that problem, although yours is worse than others I’ve heard about.
Early last year I started having a rash above the inside right ankle. A touch of cortisone will calm it down for a week or two, but it comes back. I don’t know for sure that this is from the niacin, but two other people I have introduced to niacin have also noted a rash. One had a rash on her chest and back. She stopped niacin for a week, the rash went away, and then she restarted with niacin and the rash still there but tolerable. Another had a rash on her back which went away when she applied some sort of antibiotic cream.
I’ve posed a question about this in the private niacin forum on Telegram. I’ll let you know if others have found a solution.
Thanks for responding - I looked up side effects for the N-Acetyl L-Glutamine amino acid component, and skin rash was a listed side effect. It doesn’t seem like an allergic reaction as I was taking it for over two weeks.
I started back up on a half dose with no rash yet.
I started back up on a half dose with no rash yet.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of glutamine/rash connection. Others who have had the rash, however, including myself, came down with it before glutamine was part of the protocol. Now, for other reasons, glutamine is on the way out.
In his endless quest for the truth, Dmitry has made another switch in the protocol, now adding iron in the form of ferric citrate specificially. He has concluded that niacin + iron eliminates the need for glutamine and folic acid. With iron the amount of glutamine normally circulating in the body is sufficient, and with iron the gut bacteria will naturally produce sufficient folic acid.
In my opinion, you might as well use up the GPR109A you have, supplementing it with ferric citrate (Swanson's is the best and remarkably cheap). When you've used it up you can switch to PureBulk niacin (less than $10/bottle) along with the iron.
Business-wise, Dmitry has shot himself in the foot, because he was getting modest royalties from the GPR109A product. He has a history of doing that, by continually modifying the protocol to get it right.
I believe that the niacin has been providing me benefits from the get-go, three years ago. Although I've bought and thrown away a lot of different supplements as I've followed his experiments, it's been worth it.
appreciate your perspective and advice
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