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Why is Niacin-Vitamin B3 important and what you should watch for?

Niacin is an important vitamin for maintaining a healthy cardiovascular system and metabolism- especially balancing blood cholesterol levels. In addition niacin helps with brain function, healthy skin formation and maintenance and even preventing or treating diabetes. (1)

However, according to recent studies, there are certain known niacin side effects that can occur when taking niacin-containing medications or supplements in high doses. The common niacin side effects are headaches, dizziness, low blood pressure and more. Continue reading for a complete list of possible side effects, benefits, sources and signs of deficiency.

If you’re eating foods rich in niacin, the chances that you’ll experience side effects are very slim. However it’s possible to experience niacin side effects when taking supplements, especially if you have high doses. The following niacin side effects seem to occur most often in people who are taking high dose supplements and who have pre-known medical conditions:

• Nausea or vomiting
• Skin reactions, rashes
• Headaches
• Dizziness
• Allergic reactions: Niacin supplements can cause allergies because some contain histamines, chemicals substances that can trigger allergic symptoms to be released
• Heart problems: High doses of niacin may increase the risk of irregular heartbeats
• Diabetes: Niacin and niacinamide might increase blood sugar. People with diabetes who take niacin or niacinamide should check their blood sugar carefully.
• Worsened gallbladder or liver disease symptoms
• Aggravated gout symptoms.
• Low blood pressure
• Stomach or intestinal ulcers
• Problems after surgery controlling blood sugar levels

 

Anxiety and the effects on your health

Holistic Remedies and Essential Oils

Simply Life and Kick Stress to the Curb

 

Taking just 10 minutes out of your day will  simplify your life and provide easier ways to make yourself happier! Here’s some of the best research that we’ve found on to reduce stress:

• Set a timer for 10 minutes. Choose any of the following tasks. Stop after 10 minutes. Then celebrate your simpler life.
• Donate any shoes you haven’t worn in a year.
• Write three thank you notes.
• Turn on soft music, lay down and close your eyes.
• Read this: How to Complain Less
• Remove any glasses, dishes, silverware, serving dishes or cooking utensils from the kitchen that you haven’t used in the last 6 months. Box it up and write “kitchen stuff: donate after 30 days” and then put it out of sight. If you miss something, go get it. If not, donate it.
• Open any email that you didn’t sign up for, or signed up for but don’t need/want/like anymore, scroll to the bottom of the email and click “unsubscribe”.
• Bring two small bags to your car. Fill one with trash and the other with anything that doesn’t belong in the car.
  Put the things you collected from your car where they belong.
• Read this: Get rid of the things that make you feel bad.
• Dump the contents of your junk drawer or desk drawers that you don’t open frequently into a paper bag. Close the bag. If you don’t need anything in the bag in 30 days … get rid of the bag and everything in it. If you do need something in the bag, remove it and put it where it belongs.
• Bring a box into your bathroom and fill it with anything that has expired or that you don’t use or that will be expired by the time you use it. Learn more about disposing of unused medications here.
• Donate all of your formal occasion dresses that you haven’t worn more than once. Yes, all of those dresses that you bought for something fancy and justified the purchase by saying, “I’ll be able to wear this again.”
  Read this: Reset to Zero.
• Clear as many counter tops as you can while still taking the time to put things where they belong. Have a donation box close by incase that is where they belong.
• Find capsule wardrobe inspiration on Pinterest.
• Remove all expired, stale, unwanted items from your pantry and refrigerator.
• RSVP with a “no thank you” to any requests that you’ve been sitting on for a week or longer. If you are still thinking about it, you aren’t excited to do it.
• Read this: Unthink Everything
• Unfriend your Facebook friends who aren’t your actual friends or delete your account.
• Turn off your phone and computer. Repeat.
• Store your books in the cloud.
• Read this: 12 Rules for Being Beautifully Human
• Write down how much money you are spending to store your stuff. Decide what you would rather do with that money every month.
• Empty the cabinet under your sink. Wash it and then only put things back that you use.
  Schedule all annual medical appointments like physicals, mammograms, dental visits or other routine medical things.
• Any of these suggestions can help you move forward on your simplicity journey but don’t wait until you think you’ve arrived to experience the benefits of simplicity. Skip the guilt-dwelling, soul-sucking process of focusing on everything you didn’t do, or how far you still have to go.

 

30 tips and rules to help you simplify your life. Simplify your routine, your relationships, and your lifestyle to reduce stress and amplify happiness each and every day. 30 rules to help begin to simplify things and make your life easier on yourself and others.

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Vitamin D

Do you feel feel blue a lot of the time? The link between Vitamin D deficiency and depression could be the key to helping you beat the blues… naturally.

Could low Vitamin D levels be contributing to your depression? What makes vitamin D unique is that it is a vitamin and also a hormone your body can make from the sun. Despite the ability to get vitamin D from food and the sun, an estimated 40%-75% of people are deficient.

How Much Vitamin D Do You Need?

Bone health was the single focus of the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations on how much vitamin D and calcium people should get.

The recommendations for adults up to age 69 rose to 600 IU/day, and to 800 IU/day for adults starting at age 70. Older adults need more vitamin D because as they age, their skin does not produce vitamin D efficiently, they spend less time outdoors, and they tend to not get enough vitamin D.

How Much Is Too Much?

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin. Fat-soluble vitamins can build up in the body and are not as easily excreted as water-soluble vitamins. The IOM committee set a level of 4,000 IU as the ‘tolerable upper limit’ or the maximum amount that is safe to consume daily.

Here’s a great chart that breaks it down by everything you needed to know on the impact of Vitamin D.

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https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/are-you-getting-enough-vitamin-d#3