Niacinamide, a form of vitamin B3 also known as nicotinamide, is a precursor to two potent antioxidants that can help reverse signs of skin aging.
This is the third in a four-part series on skin products. If you missed the first two, check out What Is the Most Important Anti-Aging Cream Ingredient? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-is-the-most-important-anti-aging-cream-ingredient) and Topical Retinoids to Reverse Skin Aging (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/topical-retinoids-to-reverse-skin-aging).
You can make your own DIY niacinamide cream or serum on the cheap by buying niacinamide in bulk and mixing it into your favorite lotion or water to make a 5% solution.<
The Benefits of Topical Vitamin C for Reversing Skin Aging (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-topical-vitamin-c-for-reversing-skin-aging) is next.
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How Not to Age hits shelves tomorrow! Find it wherever you get your books.
Looking forward to the book.
nice, please Taurine next
Can one use both retinol and niacinamide? Is the effect addtitive?
Dr Greger is the best!! <3
I am in love with this channel. 💚
Thanks doc! This that NMN substance folks are on about and the FDA wanted to put on the drug list?
I started using niacin amide a decade ago off and on, retinoids too…yes they do help…but I should've been more consistent w sunscreen use. It wasn't until the pandemic that I learned the importance of using a sunscreen everyday and not just for the beach.
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It should be noted that a plethora of users of Niacinamide experience moderate to severe irritation and appearance of small bumps. Use caution.
There's been a recent study circulating about a correlation between nicotinamide supplementation and metastasis of cancers to the brain… It's too opaque for me to understand anything except the abstract, and not really even that. Does this only relate to oral supplements, and if so, to OTC supplement doses or only in extremely large doses as are sometimes given to ameliorate the effects of chemotherapy, or is it ALL nicotinamide including topical? Very confusing for us lay people, would love some of your expert clarification. BTW, you're the first internet medical source I've found who even acknowledged the VA study, which has had me scared of retinoids for years. I appreciate your clarifying that it only studied tretinoin.
Is Botox for preventing eye wrinkles safe?
let's stick to what's important. cosmetics are a waste of money brought about about by the illusion created by advertising much like salt, fat and sugar.
Okay so what product do we buy, and what concentration do we mix it into, and how often and how much of it should we apply?
I have never found anything recommended on this channel to make any perceptible difference to anything in my life. Actually it’s not just this channel, but I can’t remember any food or topical regimen ever making me think that it has more than a placebo effect. It almost seems all entirely genetic. I don’t understand all the people who swear by this or that nutrition or skincare regimen.
Exercise is one thing that has a clear cause effect relationship between training and fitness metrics. Attention to nutrition, not so much, unless you eat really poorly to begin with maybe.
I incorporated all these things recommended by this channel all to zero noticeable effect: oats, nuts, amla powder, chia, Brazil nuts, pumpkin seeds, soy, turmeric, fenugreek seeds, variety of legumes, etc. Zero difference!
Most of those things are tasty, so I don’t mind, but none of it “works”.
Thank you for making this series on visible aging
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I preordered back in the summer ! Can't wait forit to get here !
Interesting! Thank you for sharing <3
Is there research about the levels of sunscreen that should be applied between the south of the equator to the northern climates