Are We Getting Enough Taurine?

[TheFugitive]

Health Benefits of Taurine

Taurine is an incredibly common amino acid that is present in almost every tissue in a mammal’s body. Despite some initial health concerns due to its presence in things like energy drinks over the past few years, it is actually incredibly healthy to consume on a regular basis. This essential amino acid is often not produced in the right amount inside humans. The ingestion of taurine is an essential part of staying healthy for those who are taurine deficient. Below are some of the amazing health benefits of taurine that have been overlooked in the past.

1. Reduces Inflammation
Taurine has been found to be very effective in reducing inflammation caused by various infections, from cancer to damaged cells and irritants. However, it hasn’t been proven to be a remedy to ailments whose main symptom is inflammation, like arthritis. Yet people who have arthritis who have taken Taurine have found improvements in their movement and less pain in their joints. So it may work for some people with the disease and not others.

2. Is a Useful Antioxidant
Taurine has also been found to be a useful antioxidant, which is one of the healthiest things for the human body to consume on a regular basis. These remove harmful oxidants that cause tissue damage from the body and prevent unnecessary cell death that oxidants cause. It has also been found to help the body produce other antioxidants around the body, which helps the body be healthier in general.

3. Protects the Heart
Taurine has also been found to be incredibly helpful for the heart, protecting it from heart disease. Homocysteine levels are lowered in people who have more taurine in their system. According to a study, which may connect directly to people who have lower amounts of heart disease and taurine itself. It has been found to keep blood vessels from hardening over a lifetime, which leads to strokes, heart attacks, and other circulatory issues over time. Taurine has also been found to be helpful in preventing an abnormal heartbeat.

4. It Prevents Hypertension
Taurine helps with endorphin production in the brain and therefore has been helpful in people dealing with hypertension. This is because endorphins tend to lower stress levels and lower blood pressure. There’s also a direct correlation between low taurine levels and high blood pressure. Other studies with taurine and hypertension have found that it also has good effects on the kidneys and heart in rats with hypertension.

5. Helps Protect the Liver
Consuming taurine on a regular basis can reduce liver damage to people who are vulnerable to liver diseases. With high amounts of Taurine in the body, liver cirrhosis is reduced tremendously, along with painful muscle cramps. Supplementation of this also prevented fatty liver diseases in animals by reducing oxidative stress and inflammation. Protein production in the liver also increases, which helps with the breakdown of fats in the liver itself.

6. Protects the Eyes
Taurine has found to protect and repair damage to the retinas that are caused over time by both oxidants and the wear and tear of light damage. Also, those who have low taurine levels are often those who will also have cataracts later in life. In animal studies, those with low taurine levels also have serious vision loss. In other words, more taurine in your system ultimately leads to better vision overall.

7. Helps Fight Obesity
Due to it’s ability to breakdown and absorption of fat and synthesis of bile, Taurine is ideal for helping reduce excess weight when levels are increased. This is the case in both people with high fat and cholesterol diets who increased their taurine intakes, as well as those who weren’t overweight, helping them to break down and digest fats more quickly and efficiently. That said, eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly combined with Taurine is the ideal way to fight obesity.

8. Increases Exercise Performance
The more Taurine in someone’s system, the better their muscles have been found to perform and then recover. It has been found to increase the exercise performance in people who have low endurance and heart, respiratory or circulatory issues in their body. This allows them actually to do physical activity that will improve their overall health. Even for people who are perfectly healthy, taurine can help to improve their overall physical performance when working out or playing athletics.

9. Helps Treat Cystic Fibrosis
While other drugs are needed to help deal with this debilitating disease, Taurine is incredibly important for helping fight it. As it’s presence helps increase fat absorption in their bodies. This allows them more energy to live and fight back against this disease. Vitamin E deficiencies that occur due to cystic fibrosis can also be replaced when taking Taurine on a regular basis.

10. Helps Treat Alzheimer’s
The cause of Alzheimer’s disease is due to the over-excitation of neurons due to a problem with the glutamate neurotransmitter. Taurine helps fix this neurotransmitter at least temporarily and make it work properly on a more regular basis in people suffering from this awful disease. It also calms the nervous system when this occurs and lowers the over toxicity in the glutamate. While many more studies have to be done in the future, signs are very promising for Taurine’s influence on benefiting those who have Alzheimer’s disease.

Source: health.facty.com

[VaughnTrue]

maybe

[compan]

You missed the part about quantifying how much "enough" is

[VaughnTrue]

Health Benefits of Taurine

Taurine is an incredibly common amino acid that is present in almost every tissue in a mammal’s body. Despite some initial health concerns due to its presence in things like energy drinks over the past few years, it is actually incredibly healthy to consume on a regular basis. This essential amino acid is often not produced in the right amount inside humans. The ingestion of taurine is an essential part of staying healthy for those who are taurine deficient. Below are some of the amazing health benefits of taurine that have been overlooked in the past.

wait a minute...

when did taurine become an essential amino acid?

pretty sure the total list of EAA's includes:

Histidine
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
Methionine
Pheynylalanine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Valine

[Big_Spaz]

In!





-Spaz

[compan]

wait a minute...

when did taurine become an essential amino acid?

pretty sure the total list of EAA's includes:

Histidine
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
Methionine
Pheynylalanine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Valine

It's a copy paste article from the internet, it's clearly true.

[dougefresh93]

wait a minute...

when did taurine become an essential amino acid?

pretty sure the total list of EAA's includes:

Histidine
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
Methionine
Pheynylalanine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Valine

[VaughnTrue]

[Rob1882]

Have to imagine unlikely seeing as how we all eat many foods including it, and many more processed foods have additional taurine added. It seems unlikely too be something people don't get a lot of just overall.

And many supplements have large amounts of it included even energy drinks include it

[TheFugitive]

Have to imagine unlikely seeing as how we all eat many foods including it, and many more processed foods have additional taurine added. It seems unlikely too be something people don't get a lot of just overall.

And many supplements have large amounts of it included even energy drinks include it

Keep sipping on that canned energy Have you tried Raze yet?

[TheFugitive]

Taurine is required in order for muscles to function, and increasing taurine levels in the body helps muscles contract harder and faster. That alone can increase strength,
but combine that with taurine's ability to increase endurance, and you're looking at the potential for some serious strength gains.

Source: interent

[OT2000]

Whoever wrote that article and referenced it as an essential amino acid may need to do some more research. It’s not even an amino acid actually.

With that said, it’s cheap and I use several grams daily even into the double digits at times.

[TheFugitive]

wait a minute...

when did taurine become an essential amino acid?

pretty sure the total list of EAA's includes:

Histidine
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
Methionine
Pheynylalanine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Valine

Type of amino acid conditionally essential amino acid

Taurine is a type of amino acid found throughout the body. It is particularly concentrated in the brain, eyes, heart and muscles.

Unlike most other amino acids, it is not used to build proteins in the body. It is classified as a "conditionally essential" amino acid

[VaughnTrue]

Type of amino acid conditionally essential amino acid

Taurine is a type of amino acid found throughout the body. It is particularly concentrated in the brain, eyes, heart and muscles.

Unlike most other amino acids, it is not used to build proteins in the body. It is classified as a "conditionally essential" amino acid

Learn something new everyday, right?

Taurine is unusual among biological molecules in being a sulfonic acid, while the vast majority of biologically occurring acids contain the more weakly acidic carboxyl group. While taurine is sometimes called an amino acid, and indeed is an acid containing an amino group, it is not an amino acid in the usual biochemical meaning of the term, which refers to those compounds containing both an amino and a carboxyl group attached to the first (alpha-) carbon atom.

oh.

[TheFugitive]

Learn something new everyday, right?



oh.

The more we know the more dangerous we become

[lucia316]

Keep sipping on that canned energy Have you tried Raze yet?

Just sipping on my Peach Mango Bang and dreaming of this...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqa_8M_BXLt/

As to Taurine being essential or not, it's not. It's not even conditional. Conditional aminos are only "essential" in times of extreme stress (subjective, I know) and illness.

Conditional aminos are listed as: arginine, cysteine, glutamine, glycine, ornithine, proline, serine and tyrosine.

An example of conditional nature is that cancer patients often cannot product arginine (non-essential as your body can produce it). In this case it's conditionally essential because your body is not longer able to make it.

Glutamine as most note can be conditionally essential in certain situations/illnesses where your body cannot produce enough.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2080048

The problem with the discussion is that taurine isn't an amino acid, but a sulfonic acid with an amino group. It isn't chemically an amino acid which has both a carboxyl group and an amino group attached to the primary/first carbon atom. (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/amino-acid)

Chemically they are different. So as OT2000 pointed out, the author of that article doesn't know what they are talking about.

Edit: Vaughn beat me.

[rhadam]

It's on the short list of things i find highly beneficial for men to supplement. I average over 6g a day.

[TheFugitive]

Which company releases a "Conditional Amino Acid" product first?

I just put together a killer formula in a matter of minutes

[compan]

The more we know the more dangerous we become

Especially because you tend to ignore it after

[TheFugitive]

Especially because you tend to ignore it after

I've been to hell and back in this industry, and I know what warm snow feels like

Lets put it this way, I've learned to mute certain things out

[dougefresh93]

I've been to hell and back in this industry, and I know what warm snow feels like

Lets put it this way, I've learned to mute certain things out

but do you know what yellow snow tastes like?

[TheFugitive]

but do you know what yellow snow tastes like?

Only when I've been desperate

[VaughnTrue]

I've been to hell and back in this industry, and I know what warm snow feels like

Lets put it this way, I've learned to mute certain things out

oh man, 2009 was not a fun year for me. them feels.

[TheFugitive]

Just sipping on my Peach Mango Bang and dreaming of this...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqa_8M_BXLt/

As to Taurine being essential or not, it's not. It's not even conditional. Conditional aminos are only "essential" in times of extreme stress (subjective, I know) and illness.

Conditional aminos are listed as: arginine, cysteine, glutamine, glycine, ornithine, proline, serine and tyrosine.

An example of conditional nature is that cancer patients often cannot product arginine (non-essential as your body can produce it). In this case it's conditionally essential because your body is not longer able to make it.

Glutamine as most note can be conditionally essential in certain situations/illnesses where your body cannot produce enough.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2080048

The problem with the discussion is that taurine isn't an amino acid, but a sulfonic acid with an amino group. It isn't chemically an amino acid which has both a carboxyl group and an amino group attached to the primary/first carbon atom. (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/amino-acid)

Chemically they are different. So as OT2000 pointed out, the author of that article doesn't know what they are talking about.

Edit: Vaughn beat me.

Thanks for the Google knowledge

[VaughnTrue]

Just sipping on my Peach Mango Bang and dreaming of this...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqa_8M_BXLt/

As to Taurine being essential or not, it's not. It's not even conditional. Conditional aminos are only "essential" in times of extreme stress (subjective, I know) and illness.

Conditional aminos are listed as: arginine, cysteine, glutamine, glycine, ornithine, proline, serine and tyrosine.

An example of conditional nature is that cancer patients often cannot product arginine (non-essential as your body can produce it). In this case it's conditionally essential because your body is not longer able to make it.

Glutamine as most note can be conditionally essential in certain situations/illnesses where your body cannot produce enough.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2080048

The problem with the discussion is that taurine isn't an amino acid, but a sulfonic acid with an amino group. It isn't chemically an amino acid which has both a carboxyl group and an amino group attached to the primary/first carbon atom. (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/amino-acid)

Chemically they are different. So as OT2000 pointed out, the author of that article doesn't know what they are talking about.

Edit: Vaughn beat me.

[lucia316]

Thanks for the Google knowledge

Well it's not wholly google. The study was, but then, if it were easy to Google, maybe you'd do it

Forget you Vaughn. Negged.

[TheFugitive]

Lets talk creatine and taurine preworkout, could be a beneficial stack

[LoudyRowdy]

Forum is always active when Fug posts.... without Fug this place is a ghost town

Bbcom should consider hiring Fug just because he keeps this forum going

[powercage]

Whoever wrote that article and referenced it as an essential amino acid may need to do some more research. It’s not even an amino acid actually.

With that said, it’s cheap and I use several grams daily even into the double digits at times.

Not on www.MauiAthletics.com ergo not credible.

[powercage]

Lets talk creatine and taurine preworkout, could be a beneficial stack

weird


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