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by kwakster
Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:37 am
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Topic: Niacin, the real story
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Re: Niacin, the real story

Introduction: Why Should You Read This Book ?

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.

—YOGI BERRA


In "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", Thomas Kuhn! says that advances in science do not occur in an evolutionary or straight-line manner. Instead, such steps take place in a series of violent revolutions sepa￾rated by long periods of relative peace.
During dramatic uprisings, “one conceptual world view replaces another.”
These intellectual revolts are not random events.
They are promoted by the discovery of significant anomalies: emergent facts that the ruling dominant theory and its supporters fail to adequately explain.
These “exceptions to the rule” are the termites of scientific theory.
As they multiply, they become more and more difficult to ignore.
The newly infected ruling theory weakens until it eventually collapses.
A paradigm shift occurs as another takes its place.
While the drug-based pharmaceutical industry continues to control con￾ventional medicine, its support structure is increasingly termite riddled.
Weaknesses are being illustrated by new highly critical books, with titles such as Deadly Medicine*, Overdo$ed America, and Death by Modern Medicine*.
Of course, the drug-based approach to health will not be abandoned any time soon unless society has a viable alternative, waiting, like an understudy, in the wings.
There it must be quietly attracting its own, more open-minded supporters.
The authors of this book are members of one such group: advocates of orthomolecular (nutrition-based) medicine.
They support an approach to human wellness that involves the use, not of drugs, but of substances that naturally occur in the human body.
Niacin is one of these, and as such seems destined to eventually play a significant role in the upcoming, inevitable medical paradigm shift.
It is impossible here to show all the advantages society will gain by switching to nutrition-based medicine.
However, this initial chapter provides a variety of examples drawn from several specific categories of wellness.
The remainder of the book seeks to examine, in much more detail, the case that can be made for the far more
widespread use of one such nutrient, niacin, for the prevention and treatment of health issues.
By eating diets that are deficient in essential nutrients, many individuals trigger their own chronic degenerative diseases later in life.
It has been known for millennia that the basis for health is good nutrition.

Orthomol￾ecular medicine, a description coined in 1968 by Linus Pauling,® goes further.
Pauling describes a medical modality that uses nutrients and normal (that is, “ortho”) constituents of the body in specific optimum quantities as the dominant treatment.
Such health-nutritional relationships have been comprehensively explored most recently by Hoffer and Saul in Orthomol￾ecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians’.
It has been further recognized that individuals are unique in their daily requirements for vitamins, minerals, or protein.
For each nutrient, at least 2.5 percent will need higher levels than the rest of the population.
There are about three dozen nutrients.
Doing the math, it becomes apparent that most people are deficient in something—even if they consume USRDA (United States Recommended Dietary Allowance) nutrient levels every day.
We are all different, and you are a bit different every day.
Illness, medications, age, variations in diet, fatigue, and stress are among the many factors that today can make you different from the you of yesterday.
It has been said that you are what you eat.

“Orthomolecular” means the right or the correct molecule.
The name was coined by Linus Pauling in 1968.
Conventional pharmaceuticals tend to be “toximolecular.”
Vitamins and insulin are examples of orthomolecular therapeutic substances.
Chemotherapy would be an example of a toximolecular therapy.


This very orthomolecular concept is true.
But, in a deeper way, you are what you absorb.
To illustrate, as Hof￾fer and Saul point out:

"In regard to nutrients, there may be a problem with absorption in the intestine.
Thus with pernicious anemia, specific areas in the gut that normally absorb vitamin B12, are lacking, or after the vitamin is absorbed it may not be combined effectively into its coenzyme, or it may be wasted or held too tenaciously by some organ system, thus depriving other parts of the body."


We need all the nutrients all the time, in the same way that an aircraft needs all its wheels and wings.
Roger Williams has described a basic concept called the “orchestra principal.”
Just as it is impossible to claim that one instrument in an orchestra is more important than another, so to maintain health, all the nutrients required by the body must be available to ensure well-being.
Though impossible to outline the enormous number of illnesses that can develop as a result of nutritional imbalance, we can illustrate the principle.
It seems likely that calcium and selenium deficiencies promote many cancers,!! excess aluminum and inadequate magnesium and calcium are linked to Alzheimer’s disease, and a lack of sulfur is associated with osteoarthritis. Certainly there are many other wellknown nutrition-illness connections as well.
As will be seen from the remainder of this book, niacin plays an espe￾cially significant role in orthomolecular medicine.
Inevitably, its use will increase as the medical paradigm shift occurs.
Orthomolecular treatments are typically far less expensive than drug-based conventional protocols.
Embracing orthomolecular treatments will make prevention and treatment available to the poor.
If this statement might seem overly ambitious, we might consider this: a single orange may cost one dollar.
It would provide about 50 milligrams (mg) of vitamin C.
A bottle of 100 tablets of vitamin C, 500 mg each, costs about five dollars.
In terms of vitamin content, the orange gives you 50 mg per dollar.
The supplement gives you 10,000 mg per dollar.
There are of course other nutritional factors and advantages to eating oranges, such as sugars, taste, bioflavinoids, and fiber.
However, one cannot easily deny, at least in terms of vitamin C, that the supplement is 200 times cheaper, costing about half a cent for the amount of vitamin C in a one-dollar orange.
Even if your oranges could cost only one-tenth as much, an impossible ten cents each, the supplement is still twenty times cheaper.
The same is true for niacin.
Niacin supplements cost approximately five dollars for 100 tablets of 250 mg each.
That works out to be about 5,000 mg niacin per dollar.
Healthy foods naturally containing significant amounts of niacin cost far more.
Once again, the many nutritional advantages of eating kidneys, liver, whole-grain bread, nuts, and green leafy vegetables are considerable and undeniable. In terms of niacin con￾tent, however, there is no competition. Several dollars’ worth of these foods provides only tens of milligrams of niacin.
Niacin-fortified foods such as breakfast cereals, white bread, and pasta are slightly cheaper niacin sources, but not much.
Interestingly, the fact that milled grains have any niacin at all is due to niacin being added to them in the man￾ufacturing process.
Adding niacin to foods is a form of low-dose supplementation.
The USRDA, which is far too low, is less than 18 mg.
Yet bodily need for niacin varies with activity, body size, and illness.
!+ About half of all Americans will not get even the RDA amount of niacin from their diets.
Niacin’s special importance is indicated in that the US RDA for niacin, which again we say is a very low figure, is actually twenty or more times higher than the RDA for other B vitamins.
Twenty teaspoons will not clean up after a hurricane much faster than one will.
We think that a lack of sufficient niacin is a real and continuing public health problem.
by kwakster
Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:00 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Niacin, the real story
Replies: 15
Views: 498

Re: Niacin, the real story

Preface

Many people have no idea how many illnesses are caused by too little niacin, and practically no one realizes just how many illnesses can be cured with megadoses of niacin.
It is the authors’ intent to change that.
Our objective is to provide a reader-friendly, problem-solving book.
This book is not nearly so much about the niacin molecule as it is about what can be done with a lot of niacin molecules.
Therefore, this book concentrates on niacin’s clinical benefits in a number of health conditions.
These conditions, successfully treated by pioneering niacin researcher Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., are based on his more than fifty years of medical practice.
Dr. Hoffer, whose capacity for work continually astounded me, began this book at the age of ninety-one. Unfortunately, he died before it was completed.
Medical geographer and professor Harry Foster, our coauthor and long-time collaborator, also suffered untimely death dur￾ing the early stages of writing this work.
So, if you wonder why this book is not thicker and more comprehensive, there you have your main reasons.
This is most certainly not a textbook.
However, standing on the shoulders of these two giants of nutritional science, I have endeavored to add to and complete the existing manuscript without altering Abram’s and Harry’s voices: Harry, the medical theorist and scholar, and Abram, the experienced and courageous physician and researcher.
(You often will find Dr. Hoffer’s voice in this book, in first person, with the initials AH following in parentheses.) The other voice is mine (AWS), that of the teacher, raconteur, and parent.
I am honored beyond measure to have worked for years with Dr. Hoffer and Dr. Foster.
I think Abram Hoffer and Harry Foster were, and will ever be, regarded as two of the great medical innovators of the modern era.
Dr. Hoffer was the world authority on niacin.
This constitutes his final work, of which he said, simply: “This book is designed primarily for cli￾nicians and the public who want to learn more and more about niacin and its wonderful properties.”
I hope this handbook may prove to be a significant part of his legacy, and of real help to all readers.

—Andrew W. Saul
November 2011
by kwakster
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:53 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Niacin, the real story
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Re: Niacin, the real story

Niacin raises good cholesterol (HDL) more than any known pharmaceutical, while simultaneously lowering total cholesterol, triglycerides, and the most pathogenic form of cholesterol-associated lipoprotein (VLDL). This wide array of generally clinically desirable chemical adjustments is undeniable bas...
by kwakster
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:30 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Niacin, the real story
Replies: 15
Views: 498

Niacin, the real story

Just finished reading this book, and already have niacin (in powdered form) on order. Due to growing medication shortages the search for alternatives is growing, and besides many other health benefits niacin can completely replace statins, and this while being both safe & cheap. At least some of...
by kwakster
Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:30 am
Forum: Mule Team Discussion
Topic: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!
Replies: 241
Views: 23571

Re: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!

Forever SC-16WB white ceramic knife from a test review i did back in 2014. The edge was finished in steps up to 1 micron diamond compound on dedicated Paper Wheels. Cliff Stamp comment: "Thanks, that is a decent sharpness for even steel". https://youtu.be/q4YGGHltloU?feature=shared Link to...
by kwakster
Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:55 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: About grounding/earthing
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Views: 3146

Re: About grounding/earthing

Update: My wife wasn't too pleased with the bed linen getting a greenish hue within the week due to the all copper earthing material, so i had to think up a little different setup. For several weeks now we both use just a piece of non-copper multi-strand electrical wire. One end stripped for just a ...
by kwakster
Wed Nov 08, 2023 1:05 am
Forum: Mule Team Discussion
Topic: Would you want a Damascus Mule?
Replies: 41
Views: 9193

Re: Would you want a Damascus Mule?

I would like to see a mule in modern Russian made wootz/bulat: http://damascus.free.fr/f_damas/f_quest/f_wsteel/lounyov.htm Contact info is in there too. Claims: - Their softest wootz has an average hardness of 62-63 HRC - A blade made of it easily scratches glass, cuts nails without notches and can...
by kwakster
Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:44 am
Forum: Mule Team Discussion
Topic: Elastic Ceramic. Wow!
Replies: 458
Views: 92024

Re: Elastic Ceramic. Wow!

Looking forward to sharpening/polishing one or more of these on my Paper Wheels with fine diamond compounds.
BTW: coarse grits are counterproductive on ceramics, and polishing is a must for any edge longevity.
Big advantage however is that there will never be a burr, so once sharp it's sharp.
by kwakster
Sun Oct 22, 2023 4:36 am
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Topic: J&R Dodge Juste Judicato - double shear steel carving knife
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Views: 533

Re: J&R Dodge Juste Judicato - double shear steel carving knife

The knife really is a delight to work with and it gets used at least several times a week for cutting various types of meat, as well as softer breads and large apple pies. It's kept sticky sharp freehand on a DMT red. Part of the ingredients for an old school beef stew: https://i.ibb.co/NS7skqs/GEDC...
by kwakster
Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:41 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 3438
Views: 811494

Re: What are you listening to?

The Klaus Schwab song:

https://youtu.be/3KZN6aznOwI
by kwakster
Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:04 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Bird & Trout shank
Replies: 2
Views: 274

Bird & Trout shank

Sometimes i remodel worn out or discarded meat carving knives into very narrow shank-like knives, which i then give away to certain Chefs & butchers. This old Swibo i did a few years back, and it has quickly become the favorite bird & trout knife of a local Chef. The rigid blade is hand conv...
by kwakster
Thu Oct 12, 2023 6:59 am
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Topic: Amazing Remastered Historical Footage
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Views: 5106

Re: Amazing Remastered Historical Footage

YouTube channel of Rick88888888, a Dutch guy who restores old footage as his hobby.
Lots of wonderful old clips from the Netherlands, England, the US, and other countries.

https://www.youtube.com/@Rick88888888
by kwakster
Thu Oct 12, 2023 6:37 am
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Topic: About grounding/earthing
Replies: 15
Views: 3146

Re: About grounding/earthing

An old friend of mine and former competitive kickboxer (in the old days he used to spar sometimes with Rob Kaman) who suffered from chronic inflammation in his shoulders as well as restless legs became curious after hearing about my experiences with my simple grounding set-up. He hadn't been able to...
by kwakster
Wed Oct 11, 2023 3:30 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: About grounding/earthing
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Views: 3146

Re: About grounding/earthing

This whole earthing thing sounded so ridiculous to me that i just had to try it out myself, and to my surprise the short term effects are very noticeable. I think this is typically something that everyone needs to investigate for themselves, or not. Internet info can be very entertaining and maybe e...
by kwakster
Tue Oct 10, 2023 9:18 am
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Topic: About grounding/earthing
Replies: 15
Views: 3146

Re: About grounding/earthing

A few more Pubmed links: Illnesses in technologically advanced societies due to lack of grounding (earthing): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105023/ Prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection by earthing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381424/ Earthing: Health Impl...
by kwakster
Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:40 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: About grounding/earthing
Replies: 15
Views: 3146

About grounding/earthing

When i first read about it i really thought it was all just nonsense. Then i tried it (the cheapskate way: by sleeping on a small piece of copper weave cloth attached to a bit of copper wire which is itself attached to a sanded bare section of our thoroughly grounded central heating system) From day...
by kwakster
Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:13 am
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Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 3438
Views: 811494

Re: What are you listening to?

Jason Aldean - Try that in a small town

by kwakster
Wed Jul 12, 2023 2:49 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 3438
Views: 811494

Re: What are you listening to?

Bach's Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould (1981 recording)

by kwakster
Thu Jun 08, 2023 8:38 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: 2 Swedish Air Force survival knives
Replies: 22
Views: 1666

Re: 2 Swedish Air Force survival knives

At this point i'm quite certain that the steel in these 2 knives is an entirely different type when compared to the standard Sheffield made crucible cast steel. One reason is that Pontus Holmberg classifies it as a stainless steel, where the Sheffield made crucible cast steel was a carbon steel. See...
by kwakster
Wed Jun 07, 2023 5:45 am
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Topic: 2 Swedish Air Force survival knives
Replies: 22
Views: 1666

Re: 2 Swedish Air Force survival knives

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