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In the study mice were given 1000 mg taurine per kg body weight per day. In comparison a typical taurine supplement for humans is 1000 mg total . IOW they gave the mice a dose of taurine that, proportionally, i'd be unwilling to take.
1000 mg ... you mean a gram :-) ?
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Yes, I know this. However you're making the blanket statement that it's harmless, and I simply have to push back on that. If it affected me this negatively, it's surely causing harm to others.
I mean my wife is allergic to lactose, but I wouldn't say lactose is anything but generally harmless.
Obviously you've never lain (I cannot call it sleep) with a lactose-intolerant SO after an evening of milk-laden feasting (loves Indian desserts which, with Indian meal included, ratchets up the noxious undercover methane emissions by about 10,000%). The dog even moved out of the bedroom!8-((
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Standard intake of taurine in most people is <200mg a day. That would be an astounding amount of taurine. Also, it's a little weird because humans can synthesize taurine, it's a major component of bile, so I'm unclear what mechanism could cause supplementation to have significant effects.
I know of a condition that seems to involve inadequate bile production. So hypothetically, it could help in that case.
I order stuff off the Internet from time to time including taurine, is there an easy/cheap way to test things that come through the post from Amazon or another company are Taurine and don’t contain things they shouldn’t? The supplement industry strikes me as dubious! Is there a better way to think about this?
Order from a trusted pharmacy, rather than from 3rd parties like Amazon. With the way binning works at Amazon, you can't trust that you will get a legitimate product even if you ordered the same thing you made sure was legitimate last time.
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You probably can live longer if you stick with coffee (black), berries (minus the food you put the berries on top of), dark chocolate (unsweetened), and wine (in strict moderation).
Alcohol is a carcinogen, so if you’re optimizing for “living longer” you should take exactly 0 mL a day. If you’re optimizing for living happier, on the other hand…
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By the way: A 16 oz can of Monster contains 2 grams of taurine. My first thought when I reading your post (before I finished): How many grams of taurine per kilogram of body weight were used in the trial? I found: Taurine supplementation increases the life span of mice To determine whether the observed drop in taurine concentration contributes to aging, we orally administered control solution or taurine at 1000 mg pe…
Standard intake of taurine in most people is <200mg a day. That would be an astounding amount of taurine. Also, it's a little weird because humans can synthesize taurine, it's a major component of bile, so I'm unclear what mechanism could cause supplementation to have significant effects.
I don’t understand the logic either but I’ve decided the human body has a billion things yet unknown to science so I take macro effects at face value even if I can’t learn an underlying mechanism for them.
As a side note, a lot of weightlifters believe taurine reduces muscle cramps.
In the study mice were given 1000 mg taurine per kg body weight per day. In comparison a typical taurine supplement for humans is 1000 mg total . IOW they gave the mice a dose of taurine that, proportionally, i'd be unwilling to take.