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Vitamin B3 for Depression: Case Report and Review of the Literature

While on parental leave during November 2009, my clinical shift was spearheaded by one of my colleagues who recommended fairly significant doses of inositol hexaniacinate to treat a patient's depression. In January 2010, the patient returned for a visit on my clinical shift and much to my surprise her long standing depression had resolved. As a result, I conducted a search for articles describing the use of vitamin B3 for depression. Six articles were found to meet the inclusion criteria and were included in this review.

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Vitamin B3 for Depression: Case Report and Review of the Literature
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Understanding the Serum Vitamin B12 Level and its Implications for Treating Neuropsychiatric Conditions: An Orthomolecular Perspective

Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) ranks among the most useful, safe and effective orthomolecules when treating a diverse array of neuropsychiatric conditions. However, most clinicians do not consider vitamnin B12 important unless the serum level is below laboratory reference ranges. Ten research reports, summarized here, indicate metabolic consequences from low-normal (but not deficient) serum B12 levels, and/or clinical improvements following therapy that markedly increased serum B12 levels.

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Understanding the Serum Vitamin B12 Level and its Implications for Treating Neuropsychiatric Conditions: An Orthomolecular Perspective
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Clinically based evidence of drug-herb interactions: a systematic review

IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD: Healthcare practitioners are deeply concerned about drug-herb interactions and how concurrent administration may affect both the safety and effectiveness of prescribed drugs. Interactions between botanical medicines and synthetic drugs can be clinically relevant and it is important to understand what kinds of interactions are possible. Better knowledge in this area will help avoid negative interactions and may also help enable synergistic interactions.

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Clinically based evidence of drug-herb interactions: a systematic review
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Randomized double blind, placebo-controlled pilot study assessing the ability of inositol hexaniacinate (hexanicotinate) to reduce symptoms of non-ulcer dyspepsia possibly due to insufficient hydrochloric acid production.

BACKGROUND: No specic etiology can be identified in patients with a form of dyspepsia known as functional or nonulcer dyspepsia (NUD). One of the “unidentified” causes of NUD might be insufficient gastric hydrochloric acid (HCl) secretion. OBJECTIVE: To test the ability of inositol hexaniacinate (IHN) to reduce symptoms of NUD among subjects with insufficient gastric hydrochloric acid (HCl), as determined by Gastro-Test® pH measurements above 3. DESIGN: Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

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Randomized double blind, placebo-controlled pilot study assessing the ability of inositol hexaniacinate (hexanicotinate) to reduce symptoms of non-ulcer dyspepsia possibly due to insufficient hydrochloric acid production.
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The role of natural health products (NHPs) in dietetic practice: results from a survey of Canadian dietitians.

BACKGROUND: Registered dietitians (RDs) play a key role in disseminating information about nutrition and intervening in nutrition-related disorders in the Canadian context. Natural health products (NHPs) are increasingly associated with nutrition in patient and health professional discussions. For this study, NHPs were divided into three categories: nutritional supplements (NS); functional foods/nutraceuticals (FF/N); and herbal preparations (HP).

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The role of natural health products (NHPs) in dietetic practice: results from a survey of Canadian dietitians.
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Governance of natural health products regulation: an iterative process.

OBJECTIVES: Natural health products (NHPs) are rapidly increasing in popularity, public consumption and of regulatory concern internationally. Canada has implemented regulations for these products in response to concerns over quality, safety and efficacy. We conducted a narrative review of the NHP regulations in order to understand the contextual factors underlying the regulations' implementation.

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Governance of natural health products regulation: an iterative process.
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Favouring Responsible Publishing: A Protocol for Creating a Database of Researchers and Surveying their Knowledge, Attitudes and Opinions towards Open Access Publishing and a New Field-Specific Journal

Background:

As a new publication, the Journal of Natural Health Product Research (JNHPR) sought to develop a two-step protocol that (1) creates an international database of natural health product (NHP) researchers and (2) surveys their perceptions, needs, and preferences for a legitimate, broad-based, open access scientific journal in their field. This protocol could be useful to other researchers and publishers and can be adapted to establish similarly legitimate journals within their academic discipline.

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Favouring Responsible Publishing: A Protocol for Creating a Database of Researchers and Surveying their Knowledge, Attitudes and Opinions towards Open Access Publishing and a New Field-Specific Journal
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No improvement in disclosure of natural health product use to primary care medical doctors in the last 15 years: A survey of naturopathic patients

Background:

The use of natural health products (NHPs) is common in North America. In 2003, we found that 42% of NHP users had not disclosed this information to their primary care medical doctors (MDs). We repeated our survey in 2018/2019 to explore if the rate of NHP use disclosure had improved.

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From November 2018–February 2019, a 21-item survey about NHP use and disclosure was administered to adult patients who visited the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic in Toronto, Canada.

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No improvement in disclosure of natural health product use to primary care medical doctors in the last 15 years: A survey of naturopathic patients
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