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Fighting against Niacin
After studying Grant's comments about Niacin, I decided to eliminate all commercial bread products, including "artisan" sour dough. But bread does provide a relief from endless servings of rice. What to do?
I decided to start making bread at home, using Niacin-free flour. As Grant mentioned, governments in Canada and USA require flour to be "fortified" with Niacin. But not in most European countries. Their flour/bread is mostly free of Niacin. Found a baking supply shop nearby that sells bread flours from France, Italy and Germany. Surprisingly modest prices. European bread flour certainly also available from the usual on-line sources.
Then I used A.I. to develop a recipe that is totally free of eggs, milk, and vegetable oil. Result is a tasty, soft, white bread with rich flavor. And NO Niacin. (But uses commercial yeast, not sour dough starter.)
Anyone else working to eliminate Niacin?
Hi Larry, I had great results with a no knead recipe that I was doing for a while. I know I've discussed it here before but now I can't find my recipe.
You mix the flour, salt and water and yeast in a bowl, allow it to rise, set it in the fridge for a day or two to gain flavor, take it out and rise it again and bake. It is so good. I will go on trying to find the recipe.
This is possibly the recipe I began with
https://www.seriouseats.com/better-no-knead-bread-recipe
I see now there are some other tricks such as baking it covered. One of my tricks was to just constantly have a batch in the pipes so that I didn't even usually wash the bowl. Take the batch out, put a new one in.
How long have you been taking nicotinic acid? What changes have you noted besides the flush?
Curious about the insistence that nicotinic acid is different from all the other forms of B3. Others have noted that normally we make it endogenously from tryptophan and that we also make the other forms of B3 as well as nicotinic acid.
I also enjoyed the flush. While I shared your belief that it does a number of helpful things for detox, I am not impressed with any results of using it. Other than the flush I noticed no other differences short or long term when I stopped and started. I also suspect that doses so much larger than what we endogenously make for ourselves has other less obvious and problematic effects.
Quite a few who had problems taking nicotinic acid had complaints consistent with ill mannered unhelpful bile dumps. My concern is with likelihood that taking anything over a few milligrams daily is messing with other mineral balances, especially calcium. We saw a lot of problems that are slowly resolving around calcium. It is way more than just take a bit of cheese with your nicotinic acid.