The United States and fifty other countries have for decades fortified flour and cereals with niacin (vitamin B3) because of past research showing that B3 helped to prevent disease related to nutritional deficiency. But new research published in Nature Medicine in February 2024 found that about twenty-five per cent of the study’s participants were designated as developing cardiovascular disease caused by consuming higher levels of vitamin B3.
This research is so new that your family physician may not yet have had an opportunity to study the now conflicting positions in the medical community related to how much vitamin B3 would … Continue Reading →