How To Eliminate Arthritis Pain With Vitamin B3 (Niacin)

Niacin can significantly reduce arthritis pain. Watch to find out how to take niacin correctly!

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Hey Dr AJ here. If you have arthritis, exercise is one of the best ways to improve your pain but that is difficult with stiff and painful joints. Luckily there is an easier way to do this using a simple vitamin. In this video I’ll tell you how to use Niacin to cut your Arthritis pain down significantly. Make sure you watch until the end to learn what dose you need to take for it to be effective and one more thing you need to know before taking niacin.

Niacin is a B vitamin that is an essential nutrient. We need it to function. It’s involved in over 500 different chemical processes in the body. Not having enough niacin for these processes can cause disease while restoring them can reverse disease. Severe deficiency can cause a lot of problems including serious problems with your mental health and can be fatal. But most people aren’t dying of niacin deficiency, they simply could use some more to have some very positive effects.

One of these effects is reducing and even eliminating the pain of arthritis. The trick is to dose it correctly or else it won’t work, which I’ll get to in a minute.

Dr William Kauffman was one of the earliest physicians to start treating arthritis with niacin in 1937. He had a patient with such bad arthritis in his elbow that he couldn’t even lift his arm to get a blood pressure reading without significant pain. This doctor put him on high dose niacinamide and lifting the arm became no problem. To test this out he switched the real niacin for a placebo and the pain came right back. This doctor went on to use high dose niacin to treat arthritis in hundreds of patients with great success. In general he found that niacin improved joint mobility and muscle strength and decreased fatigue-ability and reduced or eliminated arthritic joint pain. But the key is in the dosage.

It takes a high dose spread out over the day to have the best pain relieving results. He recommends 250 mg every 90 minutes for a total of 10 doses. That’s 2500 mg a day. Niacin is very safe, much safer than over the counter medication. People do not die from niacin, in fact it actually extends life because it also lowers your LDL cholesterol (the bad one) and raises HDL cholesterol (the good one). Remember, this isn’t medical advice, so it’s best to consult with your doctor before starting niacin therapy, especially if you have liver disease. Keep in mind, it can take a few months or longer of taking niacin to get the full benefit but you should start to notice some improvement after even just a few days.

Now be warned. If you take niacin you will experience a flush. The larger the dose the more of a flush you will have. It’s ok to start with a smaller dose and work your way up. With a flush you will feel warmth starting in your forehead and it will travel down your face, neck and upper body. Sometimes it will even go down to your toes. The fist time I took niacin it tuned my whole body red. It will pass after 30 minutes or sometimes a little longer. Most people kind of freak out if they aren’t expecting it. It helps to take it with food and you will flush less and less with each dose. After a few weeks most people have little to no flush response.

To avoid the flush you can take a non-flushing form of niacin called niacinamide. It is also effective in reducing arthritis pain. But some people feel the flushing form is more effective. I’ll put a link to the two forms of niacin below in the comments as well as a book on niacin if you are interested in learning more. I’m not making this stuff up, it’s well researched in this book and is where I got a lot of the information for this video.

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[mitchelljohnston]

I have been using it to treat alcoholism for years. It is also part of the same book. It changed my life, for the better.

[pankajchand]

This person has mixed up Niacin and Niacinamide. Niacinamide help arthritis, Niacin does not. Niacin causes flushing, Niacinamide does not.

[richardfinnigan]

After a lifetime of underlying inflammation and joint-muscle pain, the last 1.5 yrs. while taking 500mg of niacin (not niacinamide) daily I have been exercising mostly pain-free though I did not realize it was the driving force behind my feeling so much better physiologically. Unfortunately, it also was driving my glucose to prediabetic levels for which I already have a familial predisposition ☹️. I feel like this potential adverse effect cannot be overlooked and should be monitored esp. if you are older (I am 54). I stopped the niacin due to this and all the familiar pains rushed back into place after only 5-7 days, so I know without a doubt niacin was providing the relief.

[MMimi-mgqt]

Very interesting theory i will put to the test. I know about the changes in a diet that cured my cousin from rheumatoid arthritis. Ita takes 100% discipline for months not to eat sugar, white flower products, milk and milk products, coffee, no frying... and includes some supplements like glucosamine, green tea, calcium, magnesium, zink, vit C

[MikeBee]

I take 3000 mg everyday to help with anxiety, also has helped a lot with cholesterol, I divide that dose to 3 times, and this is the Nicotinic Acid form, not the Niacinamide. Thanks for sharing.

[grmalinda]

Knees, B3 . Boron . MSM . I need all three.

[kathreenpoulos]

Thanks for getting too the point I will try B3.

[amaniamir]

I tried your exercise for BPPV and it worked for me.

[kimparke]

Wow, vitamin b3 is amazing for many people

[pramujisinggihriyanto]

Many thanks. This is information I really need

[nougatbb]

I think the no-flush form of Niacin is inositol hexanicotinate.

[jackeyniraula]

Had a bad left shoulder probably that came with age or maybe a workout, couldn't lift or curl without pain. Had been going to a chiro, and would feel better only for a few days. I ditched the old Chiro and started going to the new one, and about the same time I started taking niacin 500 mg, now not sure which one is working but definitely, my pain has been slowly diminishing on my left shoulder and I no longer have that nerve tension on my upper back whenever I tilt my head to the left side. I researched bone pain and niacin keyword and this video came up, makes sense why my pain has become less severe. Was taking it for lowering cholesterol and heart health benefits but didn't realize it has other benefits as well. Thanks

[Outdoorswithmikey]

Hey Doc you're confusing Niacin's side effects with Niacinamide's effects. Niacin has the flush not niacinamide. Niacinamide also doesn't reduce lipids in our blood. That's niacin.

[thelaughingprophet]

Both Niacin and Niacinomide work well for my RA pain. Immediate relief using either.

[ravenodinson]

You mentioned Niacin and Niacinamide interchangeabley. So which one is best for what you need?

[chrisgustafson]

Niacin can also help lower lousy cholesterol

[lesjamaluto]

What about the flushing thank you..for your reply..

[KotsioSkRocks]

without statins my total cholesterol was 300.LDL 219 HDL 66 Triglycerides 72. I took 1.5 grams of niacin for 2 months. Total cholesterol 258 LDL 172HDL 73 and triglycerides 63. But I read a research and I am relieved.Cardiologist Donald M. Lloyd-Jones of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the US who wrote the editorial was based on a study involving about 25, 700 people aged 50-80 who were followed for four years. All patients were taking cholesterol-lowering statins, while some were also taking niacin and others a placebo.

From the data analysis, not only was there no additional benefit of niacin in terms of reducing heart attacks and strokes, but there was a 9% increased mortality among people taking vitamin B3 in pharmaceutical doses.I would like your comments

[windsorrocks]

If you're new to niacin's "flush", you can wiggle the gel cap open and take only a fraction of a dose, mixed with water on a spoon. 500mg is the most common dose available and it may be too much for many people.

[justinaex]

I was very interested while watching your video. I was intrigued like i was watching a movie. Lol. I wanted to ask if you can recommend a niacin product