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Fifty scientists after a decade of research: taurine may be an anti-aging drug
CNN, the news station for English-speaking and highly educated people who know exactly where this world should go, puts the supplement geeks back in their place. "Is taurine the ellxir of life?", CNN headlines on its website. "Maybe, if you're a worm, mouse or monkey."
This, boys and girls, is quality journalism. No wonder more and more people are watching CNN day-in-day-out.
The research that CNN so cleverly puts in place appeared in a silly periodical called Science. Moreover, the study was not funded by Pfizer. Then, as a journalist of a medium for highly educated people like CNN, you know enough.
We, the industrious and deplorable compilers of this free web magazine, are not as intelligent as CNN's clever copywriters. So we read the study that Parminder Singh, a researcher from the National Institute of Immunology in New Delhi, India, and his colleagues published in the first week of June 2023.
Taurine
The researchers determined, among other things, how much taurine is present in people's blood, and saw that this concentration decreases as people get older. Taurine is found in animal products, especially fish and meat. Omnivores consume several tens to several hundred milligrams of taurine daily, but the human body also produces taurine by metabolizing cysteine.
Live longer
If the mice had been humans, they would have received one gram of taurine per 10 kilograms of body weight every day. Some individuals respond well to it, others will experience side effects. There is a group of people who suffer from insomnia due to supplementation with taurine.
Either way, taurine supplementation extended the overall lifespan of the mice by 10-12 percent.
Stronger & healthier
When the mice were 24 months old, the researchers studied the animals. They saw that in the animals that had been given taurine, fat reserves were smaller, bones and muscles were stronger, agility and body coordination were better, and fear and anxiety were less.
The researchers also looked at the effects at the molecular level. After supplementing with taurine in older lab animals, they saw a decrease in markers that indicate free radical activity, DNA damage, aging [such as senescence-associated beta-galactosidase] - and also registered less activity of inflammatory proteins such as TNF-alpha and interleukin-17-alpha.
Apparently supplementation with taurine not only extends the life span of the test animals, but also their health span. The researchers did similar experiments with rhesus monkeys. The results pointed in the same direction as those of the mouse experiments.
Conclusion
"To test whether taurine deficiency is a driver of aging in humans as well, long-term, well-controlled taurine supplementation trials that measure health span and life span as outcomes are required."
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