Vitamin B3 May Aid The Brain After Stroke
March 2, 2010 by Personal Liberty News Desk
An initial study conducted at the Henry Ford Hospital suggests that a common B vitamin may help improve neurological function after a stroke.
Researchers at the facility have recently found that when lab rats with ischemic stroke are given vitamin B3, or niacin, their brains experience new blood vessel and nerve cell growth, which significantly improves cognitive function. Additional research is currently being conducted to investigate the effects of an extended-release form of niacin on human stroke patients.
"If this proves to also work well in our human trials, we’ll then have the benefit of a low-cost, easily-tolerable treatment for one of the most neurologically devastating conditions," said Michael Chopp, scientific director of the Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute.
Niacin is currently recognized as the most effective natural supplement for increasing high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), or "good" cholesterol. Separate studies have found that HDL-C is abnormally low in patients who have recently suffered a stroke.
The researchers also believe that the discovery may open another avenue of treatment for patients suffering from brain injury and impaired neurological function. 
Please show us clinical research instead of the reprehensible animal testing.
Animal testing IS necessary, and one of the most effective methods of drug research.
Go find a tree somewhere and hug it, why don’t you.
My neurologist has given me a prescription of B-3 combined with a few other B’s and my memory has improved considerably. I have taken this for about five years. I believe you are on to something good. Thanks for this article.
Nancy
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As always, if it helps, use it. It’s high time to ignore and bypass the FDA and its many useful idiots. The FDA is great at letting Big Pharma pocket tons of easy money, but it’s not worth a damn when it comes to keeping us healthy.
Administrators at the FDA finally ADMITTED that it CAN’T do its job. Add to that the FACT that the FDA tends to be anything BUT scientific [how can an agency be scientifc and an overpaid prostitute at the same time?].
If it helps, use it. To hell with the FDA.