{"id":206,"date":"2009-05-08T09:19:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-02-16T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:31:32","slug":"niacin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/niacin\/","title":{"rendered":"Niacin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Vitamin B3 and Nicotinic Acid.\u00a0 Niacin is <a href=\"http:\/\/lpi.oregonstate.edu\/infocenter\/vitamins\/niacin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">part of the coenzymes NAD and NADP<\/a> (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate), which are primarily involved in oxidation-reduction reactions throughout the body.\u00a0 In addition to maintaining basic health\/wellness, niacin is used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/high-blood-cholesterol\/in-depth\/niacin\/art-20046208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the treatment of high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.<\/a>\u00a0 Due to the potential for side effects and hepatotoxicity, however, high dose niacin should only be taken under medical supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Other forms of niacin include niacinamide, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/xanthinol-nicotinate\/\" target=\"_blank\">xanthinol nicotinate<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/picamilon\/\" target=\"_blank\">picamilon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Vitamin B3 and Nicotinic Acid.\u00a0 Niacin is part of the coenzymes NAD and NADP (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate), which are primarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[226,514,687,688,699,703,973],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}