Posted by Larry Hoover on April 25, 2005, at 10:41:36
In reply to Re: NIACINAMIDE for Anxiety, SP/PD, posted by sdb on April 20, 2005, at 11:07:33
> There was somebody in this forum, who said that he could replace klonopin after twenty years with niacinamide. Some months later in the forum it seems that he had changed to Nardil.
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> look at this:
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030505/msgs/226283.html
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> Some say niacin should be more effective as niacinamideMore effective for what, exactly?
If you're referring back to the original subject you posted about, anxiety and its related disorders of Social Phobia and Personality Disorder?.....there is only one answer that is correct, and that is niacinamide.
Only the amide binds to the benzodiazepine receptor. Think about the arrogance or hubris or whatever it is that brought us to calling a natural receptor complex after a drug that coincidentally affected that receptor. Did we think God or Mother Nature put it there for our drug to use?
Niacinamide and magnesium both (and quite separately) increase the activity of the benzodiazepine receptor. Niacinamide also mildly agonizes the receptor (acts as an activator).
Niacin does other things entirely.
Lar
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