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The vitamin that flushes you scarlet, then quietly keeps your cells from falling apart.
means Vitamin B3, an essential nutrient your body uses to turn food into energy and repair DNA.
from Named in the 1940s as a tidy contraction of nicotinic acid plus vitamin, deliberately scrubbing out nicotine to avoid scaring grocery shoppers.
Deficiency diseaseSevere lack causes pellagra: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, death.
Famous flushHigh doses redden skin via dilated blood vessels.
Body builds itSynthesized from tryptophan, the amino acid in turkey.