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Sometimes it does. Many decades ago I (Hoffer) began giving niacin to all my diabetic patients to keep their cholesterol levels normal and to decrease the serious vascular side effects of diabetes that lead to blindness and loss of legs. I did not see that many, but none of my diabetic patients on niacin suffered from those side effects. Their eyes remained normal as did their circulatory system. [Owen's note - Hoffer also routinely prescribed vitamin C.]
Many physicians had the idea that because niacin increased blood glucose levels in some patients that this was contraindication. However, that increase was usually minor and the patients did not suffer from those slight elevations. I found that one-third of my diabetic patients had to increase their insulin levels a little, one-third had to decrease it, and the rest did not need to make any change.
In 1983 I (AH) suggested that niacin lowers cholesterol because it releases histamine and glycosaminoglycans. Niacinamide does not do this. A histamineglycosaminoglycan-histaminase system had also been found to be involved in lipid absorption and redistribution in an earlier study by Mahadoo, Jaques, and Wright in 1981.19 Boyle had found that niacin increased basophil leukocyte count; these cells store heparin as well as histamine.
Hoffer, Abram ; Saul, Andrew W. ; Foster, Harold D. (2012-02-01). Niacin: The Real Story (Kindle Locations 1976-1979). Basic Health Publications, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
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