Niacin

General Information:

• Responsible for vasodilation and can be pellagra-preventative. It is used by the body to synthesize sex hormones and maintain the health of the nervous and digestive systems the skin.
  
• Present in body and is synthesized from the amino acid tryptophan.
  
• Destroyed in the body by excessive sugar, sulfa drugs, the antibiotic chloramphenicol and alcohol.
  
• Requirements are 20 mg per day for adults.
  

ŠJamie Longstreet 1996-2004