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The Hidden Cause of Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a poison on every single system of the human body, so it makes sense that the only way you can cure it is by healing the entire body.
Date: 1/13/2015 2:40:19 AM ( 9 y ) ... viewed 11107 times 
So many people are on some sort of medication for depression these days and I started thinking about it--what's with the explosion of depression in this country? Mental health issues didn't seem to be so ubiquitous a hundred years ago. And I think I came up with an answer (it's not a shock that it all comes down to money).
Niacin is added to food (bread, grains, etc) because as a population we don't readily get niacin from our modern American diet. However, there's two forms of niacin--nicotinic acid and niacimide--and niacimide is the form that's added to food because it's cheaper.
Niacin is critical for the formation of serotonin, the feel good neurotransmitter. It goes like this--the amino acid tryptophan is used to make niacin and serotonin and niacin production gets priority over serotonin. When the body senses that there isn't enough niacin it will take the raw materials it would use to make serotonin to keep making niacin.
Here's the rub: niacimide doesn't shut off the niacin pathway like the more expensive nicotinic acid, so the body constantly thinks that there isn't enough niacin and it redirects its supply of tryptophan from serotonin production to keep making niacin.
The less expensive niacimide keeps the population from develping the more obvious diseases associated with niacin deficiency like pellagra, but at a cost to mental health--leading to a whole host of problems ranging from depression to schizophrenia to alcohol dependency.
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