Niacinamide Enhances Natural Killer Cells to Beat Carcinomas

This B vitamin enhances the activity of your natural killer (NK) cells and boosts their ability to home in on your lymph nodes to hunt down and destroy malignant cells in certain carcinomas.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• According to recent research, nicotinamide, also known as niacinamide (a form of niacin or vitamin B3), enhances natural killer (NK) cells’ ability to defeat blood cancers

• Pretreating NK cells with an unspecified amount of niacinamide upregulated a lymphocyte homing molecule called CD26L, which improved the antitumor functions of the NK …