Benefits of Taurine: Enhances Physical Performance, Mental Health and More
Elevate Christian Network :: Health and Wellness
Taurine is essential for a healthy heart, brain, bones, vision, hearing, and more. It’s thought to increase physical stamina and improve athletic performance. | Image: (bebrainfit.com)
You may be familiar with taurine as a supplement used by athletes or bodybuilders to enhance physical performance, or as an ingredient in energy drinks. In fact, it may be one of the most valuable nutrients for your overall health, mental well-being, and longevity.
Let’s take a closer look at what taurine is and what it can do for your performance, mood, and overall health. Taurine is a sulfur amino acid and one of the most abundant compounds in the brain, retina, heart and muscles. It plays an important role in many aspects of good health.
Taurine and Brain Health
It’s found in high concentrations in the brain where it aids the movement of potassium, sodium, calcium, and magnesium in and out of brain cells. Taurine almost qualifies as a neurotransmitter, chemicals used by brain cells to communicate with each other.
It meets all of the criteria of a neurotransmitter except one — no taurine-specific receptors have been identified. The best sources of taurine are seafood (especially shellfish) and poultry (especially dark meat). You’ll also get some from meat and a little from dairy.
Sufficient Amounts of Taurine in the Body
It’s found in human breast milk since it’s critical for newborns’ brain and eye development. Besides eating taurine directly, your body can synthesize it when the right building blocks are available. In spite of taurine being abundant in the body, not everyone has enough of it for their needs.
Common symptoms of taurine deficiency include anxiety, depression, impaired vision, high blood pressure, kidney problems, and trouble recovering from exercise. Since it’s found almost exclusively in animal products, vegetarians are at risk for taurine deficiency. Read the full story…. bebrainfit.com
Nutritional Supplements: Health Benefits of Taurine
Video Transcript
my name is Christine Marquette and I’m a registered and licensed dietitian with Marquette nutrition and fitness and I’m going to talk to you about what are taurine benefits taurine is actually an amino acid it is very ubiquitous in the body there’s a lot of free flowing tarring in the brain it can be found in many foods particularly animal foods all sorts of meats fish poultry eggs any high protein food is likely going to have some tari in it primarily it’s used for neuro neuro motor development it’s also used by the brain exactly how it functions in the brain is still being learned we don’t know exactly all of its functions in the brain but we do know it is needed for neuro development it also plays a role in regulating actual electrolytes in your body system so it has many different benefits many different effects in the body there has been some study with taurine as far as it potentially helping reduce symptoms associated with alcohol withdrawal so it may actually help treat people who have alcoholism that is one area of research that is being done there has been a little bit of research also with hepatitis in addition to hepatitis caused by various viruses or bacteria liver dysfunction caused by alcohol such as cirrhosis there’s been some research in the use of tarring to treat that as well that’s limited there aren’t a lot of studies that have been done in that area but the ones that have been done have shown some benefit in that the use of tarring can actually help improve the function of the liver there has also been a few studies on tar range for some other health conditions again those are a lot of preliminary studies so there’s nothing that’s really solid that shows that they have a benefit in some of these other areas such as preventing certain types of cancer but we do know that tarring in general does function in the brain it is needed for neuro motor development neuromuscular development it is an essential asked me no acid in infants it not an essential amino acid in adults as we become adults we actually have the ability to make taurine from two other amino acids in our body but infants do not so for them it is essential and it is very important to their motor skills into their brain development so powering actually does have several benefits it can be purchased supplementally or it can be eaten consumed in various foods and its other potential benefits are currently being studied.
- The health benefits of taurine include helping with neuromotor development, electrolyte regulation and liver dysfunction. Eat meat, fish, poultry and eggs to get taurine for brain function with advice from a licensed dietitian in this video on healthy nutrition.
More resources:
Heart-Healthy Benefits of Taurine Supplements – Medical News Bulletin Taurine, derived from the amino acid cysteine, is a compound found at high concentrations in the heart, suggesting it is important for heart muscle function. To test this notion, a recent study evaluated the effectiveness and benefit of taurine …
Is Taurine a Good Workout Supplement? – BarBend (blog) As the ingredient that gives “Red Bull” its name, there are a lot of myths surrounding taurine, the main ones being that it’s a caffeine-like energy supplement (it’s not) and that it’s made from bull sperm (it isn’t). While most supplements are now …
Amino Acid Boosts The Effectiveness Of Brain Cancer Therapy – Asian Scientist Magazine AsianScientist – Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have developed a novel photosensitizer that uses the amino acid taurine to make brain cancer treatments more effective.
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