Taurine supplements for humans7/26/2023 In an accompanying article in Science, the University of Pennsylvania’s Joseph McGaunn and Joseph Baur point out that we don’t know for sure what the risks of long-term supplementation with taurine would be, but it is already widely taken as a supplement in baby formula and in energy drinks, with no known ill effects. I was skeptical going into this article, but I couldn’t find any obvious flaws. Monkeys live a lot longer than mice, so the scientists don’t yet know if taurine increases the monkeys’ life spans, but all the signs are promising. Several measures of inflammation decreased.Body fat was lower than it was in monkeys that didn’t get taurine.Bone density increased in the spine and legs.So the scientists also did a study (a smaller one) in monkeys, which are much closer to humans genetically. And many, many times we’ve seen results in mice that just don’t carry over into humans. Of course, there’s always a big caveat with results in mice: they’re mice, not humans. The number of senescent cells-those that don’t do much except emit damaging inflammatory signals–seemed to be reduced.
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