Why should our bodies make niacinamide? Niacinamide and niacin are both “B vitamins”; our bodies aren’t designed to make vitamins, that’s why they’re in foods and all the “health food stores”, so we can buy them in foods and take them as supplements as part of our efforts to stay as healthy as we can for as long as we can! So, what’s this about our own bodies making niacinamide, one of the B vitamins?
When vitamins were first discovered years ago, niacinamide and niacin were two vitamins very clearly identified as being not made in human bodies but also identified as essential to human health and longevity. However, there have been changes published since then: for example, Professor Gregory Oxenkrug at Tufts University1 Medical Center in Boston, “Taxachusetts” (that’s a local native’s alternative name for “Massachusetts”) wrote us about Chapter 8 in a book titled Tryptophan Metabolism: Implications for Biological Processes Health and Disease, in which he told us that the amino acid tryptophan, if digested and absorbed well (which is more likely before age 50 and less likely after that age2), can be metabolized with the help of pyridoxal-5-phosphate (the “active” form of “vitamin B6” into niacinamide adenine dinucleotide (“NAD”), which also helps “power” any cell in the body that needs more energy into making more ATP (adenosine triphosphate, human bodies’ so-called “energy molecules”).
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