![]() ![]() This raises a lot of questions about taurine and its uses. “Our next goal is to perform a controlled trial in humans.” “These studies suggest that taurine abundance is a regulator of health in old age and its supplementation may have beneficial effects as well,” says study co-author Vijay Yadav, Ph.D., an assistant professor of genetics and development at Columbia University. It’s important to note that the research was largely done on animals-not humans. The nutrient prevented weight gain, reduced fasting blood glucose and markers of liver damage, increased bone density in the spine and legs, and improved the health of their immune systems. There were similar results in middle-aged monkeys that were given taurine supplements every day for six months. Other experiments on mice found that, at age two-which is about 60 human years-animals that took taurine for a year were healthier in nearly every way than those who didn’t take the supplement. (That translated to three to four extra months in mice and about seven or eight years in humans.) The researchers discovered that the female mice given taurine had a 12% higher lifespan and the male mice had a lifespan that increased 10%. The researchers then took 250 14-month old mice (which are about 45 years old in people years) and fed them either a bolus of taurine or a control solution daily. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]()
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