Columbia Study: Energy Drink Ingredient Taurine May Boost Health and Slow Aging — Research from Columbia Uni |
Taurine supplementation increases healthy life span. In the picture, the bull depicts taurine which is reversing the clock of aging increasing health span and life span. Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Centersuggests that a deficiency in the nutrient taurine may drive aging in animals, with supplementation showing the potential to slow aging and extend healthy lifespans.
“This study suggests that taurine could be an elixir of life within us that helps us live longer and healthier lives.” Taurine first came into Yadav’s view during his previous research into osteoporosis that uncovered taurine’s role in building bone. Around the same time, other researchers were finding that taurine levels correlated with immune function, obesity, and nervous system functions.
The researchers started with close to 250 14-month-old female and male mice . Every day, the researcher fed half of them a bolus of taurine or a control solution. At the end of the experiment, Yadav and his team found that taurine increased average lifespan by 12% in female mice and 10% in males. For the mice, that meant three to four extra months, equivalent to about seven or eight human years.
In the first, Yadav and his team looked at the relationship between taurine levels and approximately 50 health parameters in 12,000 European adults aged 60 and over. Overall, people with higher taurine levels were healthier, with fewer cases of type 2 diabetes, lower obesity levels, reduced hypertension, and lower levels of inflammation.
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