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It also contains taurine, unlike coffee, which "crosses the blood–brain barrier and has been implicated in a wide array of physiological phenomena including inh
by tlb 8y ago
It also contains taurine, unlike coffee, which "crosses the blood–brain barrier and has been implicated in a wide array of physiological phenomena including inhibitory neurotransmission, long-term potentiation in the striatum/hippocampus, membrane stabilization, feedback inhibition of neutrophil/macrophage respiratory burst, adipose tissue regulation and possible prevention of obesity, calcium homeostasis, recovery from osmotic shock, protection against glutamate excitotoxicity and prevention of epileptic seizures." [0]
"Long-term potentiation in the hippocampus" in conjunction with traumatic stress is plausibly causally related to PTSD.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine
- yholio 8y agoTaurine sounds like the perfect cool sounding ingredient that can be safely added with absolutely no effects: "The amounts of guarana, taurine, and ginseng found in popular energy drinks are far below the amounts expected to deliver either therapeutic benefits or adverse events".
- tlb 8y ago"Absolutely no effects" shouldn't be your default assumption. Lots of compounds have been shown to have subtle long-term effects that weren't obvious at first. You have to do epidemiological studies to find problems with compounds that have a negative effect only in certain circumstances, because it probably won't be noticed in clinical trials. The foundational example is thalidomide, which is a harmless sedative except in pregnant women. Clinical trials aren't normally done on pregnant women, and they also aren't done on soldiers in active combat. There may well be no problem, but this is the sort of epidemiological evidence that justifies further study.