It's been decades since I studied chemistry, but that claims that nicotinic acid, or one form of niacin, vitamin B3, would basically be gotten from nicotine by an oxidation reaction. Seems slightly more complicated than that, but if there are any chemists here, what do you think?
Nicotinic acid is that form of B3 that used to be used before we got statins for reducing LDL cholesterol. Most B3 for sale as pills, and in everything that says it has been fortified with vitamins, is nicotinamide, a slightly different form of B3 that has no effect on cholesterol levels because nicotinic acid can produce an unpleasant flushing effect in larger amounts as it causes vasodilation of small blood vessels in skin. Nicotinic acid can lower LDL and triglycerides and raise HDL.
Nicotinamide is good enough for treating and preventing pellagra.
Hm.
https://www.sott.net/article/270514-Nicotine-vs-nicotinic-acid-niacin
It's been decades since I studied chemistry, but that claims that nicotinic acid, or one form of niacin, vitamin B3, would basically be gotten from nicotine by an oxidation reaction. Seems slightly more complicated than that, but if there are any chemists here, what do you think?
Nicotinic acid is that form of B3 that used to be used before we got statins for reducing LDL cholesterol. Most B3 for sale as pills, and in everything that says it has been fortified with vitamins, is nicotinamide, a slightly different form of B3 that has no effect on cholesterol levels because nicotinic acid can produce an unpleasant flushing effect in larger amounts as it causes vasodilation of small blood vessels in skin. Nicotinic acid can lower LDL and triglycerides and raise HDL.
Nicotinamide is good enough for treating and preventing pellagra.