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New research hasn’t found any connection between taurine levels in the blood and our age.
You might want to hold off on stockpiling taurine supplements as part of your anti-aging cocktail. Research published today failed to find evidence that our levels of taurine shrink as we get older, contrary to some earlier studies.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health led the research, published in Science, finding that taurine levels didn’t change much over time and widely varied between individual animals.
The results suggest that taurine isn’t a good marker for age and throw into doubt the idea that it can prolong healthy aging.
“Circulating taurine doesn’t decline with age in healthy individuals of these three mammalian species across the adult lifespan,” said lead study researcher Maria Emilia Fernandez, a postdoctoral fellow in the Translational Gerontology Branch of the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, in a press conference Tuesday announcing the findings.
Taurine is a semi-essential and important micronutrient.
Source: gizmodo.com
