Excess niacin causes blood vessel inflammation and cardiovascular disease

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[Melody68]

At one time I did use niacin. I liked the flush that it gave me. It raised my HDL by 30% or more and lowered my triglycerides. According to the article it lowers LDL cholesterol which we all know is false. I no longer use niacin because it did cause issues with my labs.

"According to the article it lowers LDL cholesterol which we all know is false." Vince, perhaps this is a typo or an error in what you meant to say? Niacin dramatically lowered my LDL, better than a statin that I took prior to finding niacin.

The reasoning that I would choose niacin again today is still the same as when I did so in/around 1998. I had high Lp(a) and high LDL. My choices to lower the LDL were either statin or niacin. Experimenting with statins, I discovered that they raised Lp(a) even higher (an effect recognized today, but not back then). That left niacin, which lowered both Lp(a) and LDL; it has worked well to date for me. I'm aware of the recent negative publicity on niacin, but I'm sure there are also negative studies on the other option, statins.