This has been my experience, but I can’t find any information to support it. Alcohol and hot beverages are mentioned as increasing niacin flush, but not fat. Does this even make sense, biochemically speaking?
While this should be a factual question, my review of the literature, while certainly not exhaustive, suggests that there isn’t currently a GQ answer, and so I post in here, in IMHO. Of course if you have a factual answer, that’s very welcome!
Don’t know but my Dr. says aspirin or ibuprofen can reduce the amount of niacin flushes you get. You take niacin before you eat and aspirin / ibuprofen after the meal. I only got a few flushes when I was on niacin.
Thanks. Yes, I’m on a daily low dose aspirin, both for its hypothetical CV benefits and to reduce the niacin flush. I haven’t tried taking it after, though. I usually take it with it. I’ve found other advice to take the aspirin half an hour before the niacin, but that didn’t make any difference. Since most of my flushes happen more than an hour after taking the niacin - unlike what the papers say - maybe taking the aspirin later will help. (I take 500mg of Slo-Niacin three times a day, and flush maybe 4 or 5 times a week; I’ve been on it a year, so this effect has not extinguished for me and likely won’t. Given my cholesterol numbers, I’m willing to put up with the flushes anyway. But they’re really not pleasant.)