The Hope of Treating PKD: Vitamin B3

2015-10-13 10:45

As PKD is a genetic disease, it is very hard for medical scientists to find out a cure for PKD nowadays though lots of research has been done. In recent days, some research indicates that vitamin B3 may give us hope for treating PKD.

It is known that PKD is very tough and dangerous for people, and about 12.5 million people get affected with PKD according to statistics. PKD can be inherited by children, and kidney cysts will grow and enlarge by the time. In general, before patients with PKD are at age of 20, there are almost very few symptoms occurring. But kidney can become large by growth of cysts, leading to pain and affecting kidney when they are over 40 years old.

The good news is that it is found that vitamin B3 can be helpful for preventing formation and growth of cysts by stopping a protein called sirt 1’s actitiveness. In the mouse experiments, vitamin B3 slowed down creation of cysts and restored kidney in mice with PKD.

We hope that vitamin B3 treatment for PKD can be applied to people with PKD very quickly in the future. Many experiments indicate that vitamin B3 is useful for preventing and delaying cyst formation and can be used for the whole life with side effects and toxins.

This new research gives us hope for PKD, and we believe deeply that our human wisdom is great and infinite, we will find cure for PKD definitely in the future. If you have any question or need more information, welcome to leave a message or contact our online doctors anytime. Reply will be given very soon for you.

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