What is TAURINE?

Answer 1

Taurine is classified as a nonprotein, conditionally essential amino acid. With the assistance of pyridoxine, humans may produce sulfur-containing taurine from the amino acid cysteine. Its dietary essentiality, nevertheless, is witnessed in newborn diets, as it is critical for normal retinal and brain development; and in adults whom are either cysteine or vitamin B6 deficient. Taurine is abundant in nearly all mammalian protein. Higher sources of this amino acid include egg, fish, meat, and milk products. [2] Vegetable proteins contain trace amounts of taurine. This may be of considerable relevance to vegetarians, as these persons may ingest insufficient amounts of the amino acid derivative. Because of taurine's abundance in the average adult diet, a specific food graph has been omitted from this section. Of note, there are no known nutrient interactions with dietary or supplementary taurine.

Uses
Among taurine's most important benefits is its ability to be used as a therapeutic agent for the heart. Taurine is often deemed as a safe and effective tool for the management of various forms of cardiovascular disease and arrhythmias
Taurine and hepatitis
In a double-blind, randomized study (3), acute hepatitis patients were given taurine in the amount of 4 grams 3 times a day after meals. The participants in the taurine study experienced significant decreases in bilirubin, and total bile acids.

How safe is taurine?
Human and animal studies (6) have demonstrated overwhelmingly that taurine is a safe - and beneficial - supplement. In my opinion, by far the lowest prices on the internet for high quality taurine can be found

Answer 2

Taurine or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid is an organic acid that is abundant in the tissues of many animals (metazoa), especially sea animals.[1] Taurine is also found in plants, fungi, and some bacterial species, but at lower levels. Taurine is a derivative of the sulphur-containing (sulfhydryl) amino acid, cysteine.

Answer 3

Never heard of it as a drink. So I will be reading up on this, but I know that a taurine is generally a large crock of sorts. Like a soup taurine. It is the fancy bowl with a lid that has a ladle for serving soups or stews, that kind of stuff. Designed to keep things hot as you serve them from the table or buffet.

Answer 4

It's an amino acid (and yes they put it in cat food because cats, unlike poeple, can't produce it for themselves). I'm not sure what benefit it has in 'energy drinks' other than making them smell like pee and taste icky.

And you're thinking of a soup TUREEN, Skittle. That's completely different.

Answer 5

I think it is an animal product found in cat food.

Answer 6

i have no idea, but it's found as one of the ingredients in my contact lens solution bottle.