Discuss taurine and it's uses.

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nolys

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I'm asking the fucking questions!
I noticed a lot of posts lately around taurine and it's benefits.
I knew it had benefits for the likes of bad pumps but that was about it, I've picked up very little about it but it seems to be a hot topic atm so I would say it warrants a thread.
I'll get discussion going

What benefits do taurine provide that have recently came to light?
What is best dosing protocol.
Does it have uses outside bodybuilding?
Are there any harms from taking taurine?

Discuss
 
As an antioxidant, cell membrane stabiliser, and (with NAC) booster of glutathione and glutathione enzymes - which is not really new news. The newness is just that they've been experimenting more widely.

Anyway there's a pretty wide-range of benefits for AAS users as you might expect - from preventing free-radical damage to the testes, to the same on endothelial cells in the cardiovascular network, and in reducing inflammatory damage to hair follicles.

Whether a diet already laden with nutritious foods and antioxidants like NAC shows additional benefits from taurine has not been investigated. The studies are essentially just proof of model.

Best dosing schedule is probably multiple times a day. Half-life is about 2.5 hours so 3x per day, or taken with shakes, would be a good idea.

As for uses outside bodybuilding, yes tons. Mostly focused on the brain (as it passes the BBB easily). Alzheimers/dementia is the latest focus. It's also believed to have an anxiolytic effect (reduces anxiety), and it stimulates GABAa (inhibitory) neuroreceptors.

No harms really, it's seems to be pretty benign. The LD50 of a single dose in rodents is greater than 5g/kg.
 
Yes that's right. It seems to prevent the harm caused by excess aromatase activity (and oestrogen) in the testes, which is believed to be the cause of testicular atrophy.

Whether it helps other arms of the HPTA recovery process is (as yet) unknown. But as most harms appear to derive from the effects of inflammatory/oxidative processes, there's a chance they might be researched in future.
 
Possibly. It should certainly be seen as a good way of preventing the kind of atrophy you might want to use HCG to reverse in the first place.
 
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