Nicotinamide Mononucleotide, Niacina, Vitamin B3

Known as Vitamin B3, Niacin is a vitamin from the B-complex family and has its differential because it is directly linked to the body’s energy production. Some common foods are important sources of this substance, such as red meat and fish, milk, cereals, and vegetables.

  • Origin: Plant Based, Animal Product
  • Source: Meat, Chicken, Fish, Peanut, Green Vegetables, Tomato
  • Type: Vitamin
  • Age Range: Adults, Seniors
  • Toxicity: May be toxic in high doses
  • Outcomes: Cognitive Function and Brain Health, Cognitive Enhancer

What are Vitamin B3 benefits?

Vitamin B3, also known as Niacin, is an essential B vitamin for the human body, as it plays a key role in converting the food you eat into usable energy by helping your body’s cells perform important chemical reactions. Vitamin B3 is usually found as niacinamide in animal products (meat and poultry), and as nicotinic acid in plant foods such as nuts, seeds, and green vegetables. According to scientific studies, there is evidence that vitamin B3 can provide several benefits to the human body, such as: improving cholesterol and triglyceride levels, reducing blood pressure, helping to treat type 1 diabetes, increasing brain function, and improving skin health.

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Cognitive Function and Brain Health Vitamin B3 and Cognitive Function and Brain Health

Cognitive functions are brain skills divided into: memory, perception, language, executive functions, attention and praxis (ability to perform complex movements). These functions depend on healthy synapses and neurons, which require good overall brain functioning. Supplements can affect cognitive performance directly or indirectly. Direct effects can alter or participate in neurotransmissions and influence the brain's energy metabolism. The indirect effects include hormonal changes that affect the brain, and improvements in cognitive disorders such as anxiety, depression and insomnia.
  • Cognitive Enhancer

    Cognition encompasses many factors, such as thinking, language, perception, and memory. When talking about cognitive improvement, we define age-related decline in cognitive health as something common, however, knowing which habits negatively influence it and how to prevent any loss in these areas is important. In addition to age, factors such as injury, family history, or bad habits can influence the decline to some degree of the sectors involved. Several studies associate nutrition with the improvement of brain and cognitive function; the ingestion of nutraceuticals for this purpose optimizes this process and guarantees results with scientific proof.

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Beans, Lentils and Chickpeas, Cheese, Meat, Milk, Peanut

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Known as Vitamin B3, Niacin is a vitamin from the B-complex family and has its differential because it is directly linked to the body’s energy production. Some common foods are important sources of this substance, such as red meat and fish, milk, cereals, and vegetables.