Is niacin really the cause of heart disease? Debunk!

[Apple]

So why would nicotinic acid (or niacin) be good if it increases HDL Cholesterol ?
The most widely used drug to increase HDL levels is nicotinic acid or niacin. Niacin is thought to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by lowering LDL cholesterol concentrations and raising those of HDL cholesterol. “On the basis of the weight of available evidence showing net clinical harm, niacin must be considered to have an unacceptable toxicity profile for the majority of patients, and it should not be used routinely”

According to Haidut/Peat:
Having high HDL is actually not a good thing. Also, anything that increases your HDL will tend do decrease LDL, and low LDL is one of the most powerful predictors of cancer incidence even decades before it happens.
Well, I have had this discussion several times with actual doctors and most of them either dismiss this idea directly or just ask me "why do you want to get us unemployed. we make money by selling stuff that lowers LDL and increases HDL".

 

[InChristAlone]

So why would nicotinic acid (or niacin) be good if it increases HDL Cholesterol ?
The most widely used drug to increase HDL levels is nicotinic acid or niacin. Niacin is thought to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by lowering LDL cholesterol concentrations and raising those of HDL cholesterol. “On the basis of the weight of available evidence showing net clinical harm, niacin must be considered to have an unacceptable toxicity profile for the majority of patients, and it should not be used routinely”

According to Haidut/Peat:
Having high HDL is actually not a good thing. Also, anything that increases your HDL will tend do decrease LDL, and low LDL is one of the most powerful predictors of cancer incidence even decades before it happens.
Well, I have had this discussion several times with actual doctors and most of them either dismiss this idea directly or just ask me "why do you want to get us unemployed. we make money by selling stuff that lowers LDL and increases HDL".

Well heart disease is the number one killer, then cancer. So take your pick! I don't think you'd get cancer from niacin unless you don't fuel yourself properly.

 

[Apple]

Well heart disease is the number one killer, then cancer. So take your pick! I don't think you'd get cancer from niacin unless you don't fuel yourself properly.

I will quote Haidut:
And there have been hundreds of drugs developed and tested (including plain niacin) for raising HDL, especially in people with low HDL. None of them showed any benefit in people with low HDL, and if HDL was somehow protective for CVD it should have shown at least minute benefit. The trial with time-released niacin formulation called Niaspan even showed much higher risk of stroke even though Niaspan did raise HDL a lot, almost double the initial levels.

Did't Ray die from stroke?

 

[InChristAlone]

I will quote Haidut:
And there have been hundreds of drugs developed and tested (including plain niacin) for raising HDL, especially in people with low HDL. None of them showed any benefit in people with low HDL, and if HDL was somehow protective for CVD it should have shown at least minute benefit. The trial with time-released niacin formulation called Niaspan even showed much higher risk of stroke even though Niaspan did raise HDL a lot, almost double the initial levels.

Did't Ray die from stroke?

Yeah never take timed release niacin! It is said he died of a stroke yes. But we don't know if he was taking any B3, and he only ever took small doses of niacinamide.

 

[Badger]

How do you determine whether a study is ‘deep state propaganda’? Should we not trust any study that comes out of the Nature publication?

Through dogged investigative tgechniques, such researching background of lead author and where he took money from to do study. Looking at his connections his career. Down side is this all takes time.

 

[mosaic01]

So why would nicotinic acid (or niacin) be good if it increases HDL Cholesterol ?

Niacin helps protect against heart attacks, but it's not the primary solution. I doubt it works by increasing HDL, it probably works by improving circulation, supporting detoxification and the energy production in the organism as a whole. Broda Barnes has showed already that heart problems don't exist in euthyroid people, he solved the entire heart attack mystery long ago and no one wants to listen.