The biological role of vitamin PP.
No oxidation-reduction process is possible without the vitamin PP. In addition, vitamin PP has a beneficial effect on fat metabolism, promotes normal tissue growth, reduces the level of "bad" and unnecessary cholesterol in the blood, takes part in the conversion of fats and sugar into energy. A sufficient amount of vitamin PP in the human body protects it from hypertension, diabetes, thrombosis, and cardiovascular diseases. Also, the vitamin PP promotes normal functioning of the nervous system. If you take extra vitamin PP, you can prevent or relieve migraines. In addition, a sufficient amount of vitamin PP has a beneficial effect on the health of the digestive tract and stomach: it promotes the formation of gastric juice, fights against existing and developing inflammations, stimulates the pancreas and liver, speeds up the movement of food in the intestine.
In addition, vitamin PP is essential for the formation of red blood cells and the synthesis of hemoglobin. This vitamin takes part in the formation of a hormonal background, this is one of the main differences of this vitamin from others. Vitamin PP plays a role in the formation of progesterone, estrogen, insulin, testosterone, thyroxine, cortisone - hormones necessary for the functioning of many systems and organs.
Vitamin PP, nicotinic acid, niacin, vitamin B3 - it can be said the names of one substance. Often it is called nicotinic acid or niacin, and nicotinamide is a derivative of nicotinic acid. As recognized by medical professionals, niacin is the most effective medicine in regulating cholesterol in the blood.
Thanks to niacin, energy is produced, in addition, it helps to maintain the normal operation of the heart and blood circulation. Also, niacin takes part in the metabolism, including amino acids.
There are cases when, thanks to niacin, people who survived a heart attack remained alive. Niacin is able to neutralize a heart attack, and prolong the life of the patient, even if he stopped taking the vitamin. Also, this vitamin reduces the level of triglycerides, which for type 2 diabetes and hypertension usually increase.
Nicotinamide is able to prevent the development of diabetes, and this is due to the fact that it protects the pancreas, which produces insulin from damage.
Doctors have long understood that with type 1 diabetes, nicotinamide reduces the need for insulin injections. And as a preventive drug nicotinamide reduces the development of the disease by more than 50%.
When joint disease - osteoarthritis, which was caused by: overweight, heredity, lack of nutrients in tissues, age (in the body all stocks are depleted) nicotinamide significantly reduces pain, thus increasing the mobility of joints.
Nicotinamide, as well as niacin, soothes emotional and neuropsychic disorders, relieves depression, anxiety, inhibits the development of schizophrenia, and improves concentration.
Daily requirement of an organism in a vitamin.
For an adult, the daily intake is 20 mg of vitamin PP. For a six-month-old child, 6 mg per day is sufficient, but the daily dose should increase with age, and when the child reaches adolescence, the daily norm should be 21 mg. Moreover, the girls of the vitamin PP require less than the young men.
With nervous or physical exertion, the daily rate increases to 25 mg. The daily norm of vitamin PP should be increased to 25 mg or more in pregnancy and lactation.
What are the ingredients of the vitamin PP?
First of all, this vitamin is found in products of vegetable origin: carrots, broccoli, potatoes, legumes, yeast and peanuts. In addition, vitamin PP is found in dates, tomatoes, corn flour, cereal products and wheat sprouts.
Vitamin PP is also found in products of animal origin: pork, beef liver, fish. Also in such products: eggs, milk, cheese, kidneys, chicken white meat.
A number of herbs also contain vitamin PP, it is: sage, sorrel, alfalfa, burdock root, rose hips, gerbil, chamomile, nettle. Also red clover, cat's cat, fennel seed, peppermint, fenugreek hay, horsetail, hops, cayenne pepper. And more oats, dandelion, ocharock, mullein, raspberry leaves, parsley, ginseng.
If the body has an essential amino acid tryptophan, then this will contribute to the formation of nicotinic acid. This acid will suffice if the animal is included in sufficient quantities of animal proteins.
All these products have different values, because they contain vitamin PP in various forms. For example, in corn, cereals, the vitamin is contained in such a form that the body practically does not absorb it. And in legumes, on the contrary, in easily digestible form.
Lack of vitamin PP.
Deficiency of this vitamin will lead to a decrease in appetite, nausea, heartburn, dizziness, soreness of the gums, esophagus and mouth, bad smell from the mouth, diarrhea, digestive problems. Deficiency will adversely affect the nervous system: muscle weakness, fatigue, insomnia. Irritability, apathy, headaches, depression, dementia, delirium, loss of orientation, hallucinations.
On the skin, the lack of vitamin PP will affect the following: dryness, pallor, cracking and corrosive ulcers, peeling and redness of the skin, dermatitis.
In addition, shortages can cause tachycardia, weakening of immunity, pain in the limbs, a decrease in blood sugar levels.
During the preparation of vitamin PP, a maximum of 20% is lost, the rest is ingested with food. But the way it is digested depends on which foods you have chosen, especially what kind of protein products you have chosen.
Vitamin PP: contraindications for use.
Contraindications: exacerbation of certain diseases of the digestive tract: peptic ulcer of the stomach, severe liver damage, peptic ulcer of the duodenum. With the complex form of atherosclerosis and hypertension, excess uric acid, gout, vitamin PP is contraindicated.