ARE THE WILLIAMS-WATERMAN VITAMIN B3 AND RANDOIN-LECOQ NUTRITIONAL VITAMIN THE SAME?

Treating Dementia with Vitamin B3 and NADH

Dementia affects approximately 5 million people in the United States, and about 475,000 elderly Canadians. Dementia is a debilitating and often progressive illness. The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, followed by vascular types. There is a need to investigate novel treatments because the current crop of medications have limited value. Niacin might be a worthwhile treatment ...

Vitamin B3, the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides and aging.

Organism aging is a process of time and maturation culminating in senescence and death. The molecular details that define and determine aging have been intensely investigated. It has become appreciated that the process is partly an accumulation of random yet inevitable changes, but it can be strongly affected by genes that alter lifespan. In this review, we consider how NAD(+) metabolism plays ...

Vitamin C, cholesterol, and the nutritional recommendations.

Vitamin D Deficiency and Leisure Time Activities in the Elderly: Are All Pastimes the Same?

BACKGROUND Optimal vitamin D status is important for overall health and well-being, particularly in the elderly. Although vitamin D synthesis in the skin declines with age, exposure to sunlight still seems to help older-aged adults to achieve adequate serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels. Elderly people would therefore benefit from outdoor leisure activities, but the effects of different ty...

NAD+ and vitamin B3: from metabolism to therapies.

The role of NAD(+) metabolism in health and disease is of increased interest as the use of niacin (nicotinic acid) has emerged as a major therapy for treatment of hyperlipidemias and with the recognition that nicotinamide can protect tissues and NAD(+) metabolism in a variety of disease states, including ischemia/reperfusion. In addition, a growing body of evidence supports the view that NAD(+)...