“the protocol I analyze later requires a specific form of niacin” What’s the form? Also, do you know what sort of dosage is used here?
If niacin is helpful for long covid, I wonder if taking it decreases the chances of getting long covid to begin with. Given how well tolerated it is, it might be worth taking just in case.
The original protocol is here (which specifies the niacin form, a suggested dose, and some support vitamins), and my analysis of it is here. There’s a comment here on a study that maybe found niacin useful for acute covid, although I haven’t investigated and have low confidence by default.
I think there’s merit to taking nutrition seriously and stocking up on many things, but am in general wary of treating taking vitamins as a free action. Even a daily pill consumes attention, and it can be very hard to notice negative long-term effects or changes in optimal dose unless you’re tracking very closely (which is a bigger attention cost). There’s a very early stage start-up I’m excited about because they might make that tracking and analysis easier, but they’re very far from shipping.
Thanks. I feel like for me the amount of attention for a marginal daily pill is negligibly small (I’m already taking a couple supplements, and I leave the bottles all on the kitchen table, so this would just mean taking one more pill with the others), but I suppose this depends on the person, and also the calculus is a bit different for people who aren’t taking any supplements now.
“the protocol I analyze later requires a specific form of niacin”
What’s the form? Also, do you know what sort of dosage is used here?
If niacin is helpful for long covid, I wonder if taking it decreases the chances of getting long covid to begin with. Given how well tolerated it is, it might be worth taking just in case.
The original protocol is here (which specifies the niacin form, a suggested dose, and some support vitamins), and my analysis of it is here. There’s a comment here on a study that maybe found niacin useful for acute covid, although I haven’t investigated and have low confidence by default.
I think there’s merit to taking nutrition seriously and stocking up on many things, but am in general wary of treating taking vitamins as a free action. Even a daily pill consumes attention, and it can be very hard to notice negative long-term effects or changes in optimal dose unless you’re tracking very closely (which is a bigger attention cost). There’s a very early stage start-up I’m excited about because they might make that tracking and analysis easier, but they’re very far from shipping.
Thanks. I feel like for me the amount of attention for a marginal daily pill is negligibly small (I’m already taking a couple supplements, and I leave the bottles all on the kitchen table, so this would just mean taking one more pill with the others), but I suppose this depends on the person, and also the calculus is a bit different for people who aren’t taking any supplements now.