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Taurine and aging
A high-profile study in animals; no human intervention data on aging.
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- The question
- Does taurine supplementation slow aging?
- Study design
- Studies in mice, worms and monkeys plus human cohort associations (2023). [1]
- What they found
- Blood taurine fell with age in several species. Supplementing middle-aged mice extended median lifespan by about 10 to 12% and improved several health measures. [1]
- Limitations
- Later work questioned whether taurine reliably declines with age in humans. No human trials of aging outcomes.
- What this does not mean
- Promising animal data is not evidence of benefit in people.
- Sources
- Singh P et al. Science. 2023;380(6649):eabn9257. doi.org/10.1126/science.abn9257
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