Our body and health need vitamin B3 to convert food or carbohydrates into fuel or glucose to be energy. Vitamin B usually refer to B complex vitamin, this family of Vitamin B are needed for healthy skin, healthy eyes and liver, also good for nervous system to function properly.
Actually you can get Vitamin B3 through food diet and it's rare to anyone got B3 deficiency but alcohol can be cause of vitamin B3 deficiency.
People get vitamin B3 deficiency usually have symptoms like fatigue, vomiting, indigestion, canker sores and depression, severe deficiency can cause pellagra.
What is pellagra?
pellagra is characterized such as cracked, dementia, diarrhea, scaly skin.
High doses of Vitamin B3 bad for health?
The expert say that high doses of Vitamin B3 or niacin can be toxic and bad for our health.
Vitamin B3 is available in beef, beef liver, beef kidney, fish, salmon, tuna, sunflower seed and peanuts. Now in the market or store there also have bread and cereals fortified with Vitamin B3. Red meat, eggs and dairy products also contain Vitamin B3