“With age, taurine levels in our body start to decline for reasons we don’t fully understand,” he says. Vijay Yadav, an assistant professor at Columbia University, in New York, who led the study, told the Telegraph that the findings suggest that taurine could be a way of reversing some of the biological processes of ageing. The supplement prevented weight gain, increased bone density and improved their immune systems. Similar benefits were found when taurine was given to middle-aged rhesus macaques for six months. Intriguingly, not only did the animals live longer, but they seemed to be healthier. Last week, an international team of researchers published a study in the prestigious journal Science where they showed that giving taurine to middle-aged mice increased their lifespan by 10 to 12 per cent – the equivalent of an extra decade in humans. Scientists have been studying taurine for 200 years, but its real potential has only been uncovered relatively recently. From Jeff Bezos to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the world’s billionaires, and their quest for immortality, have been driving a renewed interest in longevity supplements over the past two years.īut for all their wacky investments – from stem cells to blood transfusions from teenagers – could the real elixir of life turn out to be an amino acid that is commonly found in Red Bull and other energy drinks?
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