Taurine supplement

It is a semi-essential amino-acid. It plays an important role and is found in heart muscle, white blood cells, central nervous system and skeletal muscle. It plays an important role in metabolism, and is essential for new borns, since they can not make it.

It is high in eggs, dairy products, meats and fish proteins, Taurine is a building block of all other amino acids. It functions in the brain and heart to help stabilize cell membranes. It comprises over 50% of the total free amino free pool of the heart.

It is essential in the mammalian development and low levels of it are associated with the developmental problems such as growth retardation and retinal degeneration. L-taurine is used to treat conditions such as seizure disorders, cardiovascular diseases, epilepsy, alcoholism, crystic fibrosis and alzheimers.

BENEFITS:

  • It is a component of bile, which is needed for digestion of fats and controls of serum cholesterol levels.

  • It lowers blood pressure.

  • Taurine helps control the movement of potassium, magnesium and sodium, helping to maintain the cell membranes.

  • It helps to guard against diabetes.

  • It is an antioxidant and helps to reinforce the immune system.

  • Dosage of 2 grams three times daily have helped people with congestive heart failure to improve cardiac and respiratory function.

  • It helps to strengthen the heart muscle, stabilize heart rhythm and also prevents blood clots.

It plays an important role in nitric oxide production, where lowered Taurine levels leads to the reduction of nitric oxide production. Nitric oxide is a gas that is present for an instant each time a muscle contracts and blood vessels dilates.

This is important in that this widens the blood channels leading to greater blood flow, which results in greater oxygen and nutrient delivery. We need the increase in blood flow for oxygen and nutrient delivery and without adequate nitric oxide, this is not possible and when deficient in Taurine there is less nitric oxide production.