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Niacin, or nicotinic acid has a healthy effect on the blood fats, which is important to the person with coronary artery disease. Niacin can lower the "bad" cholesterol in the blood, elevate the "good" cholesterol and decrease triglycerides.

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My own case

The first idea about our web, "Cholesterol Anonymous" was due to my own case of High cholesterol and posterior cure.

In 1980 I was 30 years old, height 1,7m. weighed 75 kilos. I enjoyed drinking alcohol, smoking and eating fatty foods.

After a general blood analysis, I discovered that I had more than 300 mg/dl in cholesterol.

From then on, my quality of life, slowly deteriorated. My weight even reached 95 kilos, I suffered from insomnia, I was hearing neurotic noises, I suffered with depression, Tiredness, Temperal loss of sight, etc..

After years with hemorrhoids, I had to undergo 2 operations in Hospital.

Finally at the beginning of 1999, I had an herpes that left me bed bound for several weeks and observed that the last blood analysis reached over 320 mg/ml in cholesterol.

My doctor recommended a special diet with a wide variety of foods, that bored my wife and proved unsucessful.

I wanted to get to the bottom of the problem and after vast research, I discovered that the secret was in the vitamin B3, also known as niacin and Nicotinic acid.

Subsequently, I searched for foods rich in B3, and found that the highest quantity was in ox liver. Accidentally, many books ignore it because it belongs to the group of viscera that all doctors prohibit without doubt.

Evaluating the good and the bat, I decided to try the ox liver, for a period of time.

I bought two kilos ox liver and in order to eliminate its strong flavour, I minced all of it and mixed it with onions, garlic, parsley, bread crumbs, flour and boiled potatoes. When the mixture was of good consistancy, I began to make 20 delicious burger, each of approx 150 grams. Once prepared they can be frozen or stored in the fridge, not forgettin to individually wrap them beforehand in tinfoil or plastic bags.

Every day I ate one of the burgers (containing about 100grams of ox liver,) equivalent to 16 (mg) from Niacin (B3). Some days I would eat one for lunch and others days one for dinner, maybe on its own or even with tomatoes or sauces.

From the 5th day, I began regulating my stomach, and the noises in my head dissapeared. Little by little, I started to regain my creativity and the desire to make things.

On the 10th day of eating the ox liver burgers, my weight reduced to 90 kilos and I began to re-furnish my house and painted all the interior. I even renovated my old abandoned web page of 2 years.

Slowly I began I feel born again, recovering the vitality that I had lost.

The "course" of burgers lasted 20 days and at the end of the month, I returned to the clinic for another blood analysis and indeed my cholesterol had fallen to 245 mg/dl. However I am still overcoming the minimum of 240 mg/dl, but it lowered 75 mg/dl in less than a month.

I now adore ox liver and I am not short of any in my freezer, in case I fancy some from time to time.

Last Updated: May 1, 2000