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types of niacin for lowering cholesterol

anyone out there know of any studies done on switching from straight niacin to inositol hexanacotinate(no flush) and a possible period of time needed to adjust? I was taking 500mg 3x a day of niacin and got down from 260 to 198 cholesterol level. I had read where the no flush was even better at lowering and so started a Twinlab no flush of 640mg niacin/160mg inositol tabs 3x a day and after a week my cholesterol reading was back up to 260.?? Thanks in advance for any info.
Bob Lembo

Follow Ups:

• Re: types of niacin for lowering cholesterol (Archive.) Walt Stoll 09:43:20 6/21/02 (0)
• Re: types of niacin for lowering cholesterol R. 02:54:31 6/21/02 (0)

In Reply to: types of niacin for lowering cholesterol posted by bob lembo on June 20, 2002 at 14:05:59:

Take a look at http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm and think about if you really need to be concerned with your cholesterol level.

In Reply to: types of niacin for lowering cholesterol posted by bob lembo on June 20, 2002 at 14:05:59:

Hi, Bob.

Listen to R. and look at the cholesterol archives. High cholesterol is NOT a niacin deficiency!

It has been MY understanding that the flush was necessary for the effect.

Walt