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> No mention of Taurine and how the older you get the more you need to consume and the longer you can sleep for. I was curious about this claim so I tried rese
by dataangel 5y ago
> No mention of Taurine and how the older you get the more you need to consume and the longer you can sleep for.
I was curious about this claim so I tried researching and couldn't find anything. Everybody just seems to look to the same study of Taurine that was done in fruit flies. I didn't see any human studies, let alone interventional studies. Even the idea that you need to consume it didn't pan out -- your body can synthesize it from a couple amino acids and B6. Do you have a source?
- Terry_Roll 5y agoYour body can synthesise a lot of things, which is why they are often considered non essential, glycine being one of them. Here's a study, not read this one before, but its not hard to find https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115565/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115565/ "The pineal hormone melatonin was also measured in the present and previous study (11), with significantly increased plasma concentrations being observed during sleep deprivation. Increased tryptophan and taurine could explain the increased melatonin levels, as taurine has been shown to increase pineal melatonin by stimulating the activity of its rate limiting biosynthetic enzyme, N-acetyltransferase (42). "
- suction 5y agoInteresting, but still quite a reach to make the claims you did above, no?
- Terry_Roll 5y agoIs it a reach or am I refusing to do someone else's work for them?
- suction 5y agoNever mind, just figured out what you're doing here - reading your comment history, you're basically Hackernews' resident quack doctor giving dangerous, unscientific advise. Good luck with that.