Every day, the researcher fed half of them a bolus of taurine or a control solution. The researchers started with close to 250 14-month-old female and male mice (about 45 years old in people terms).
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"That's when we started to ask if taurine deficiency is a driver of the aging process, and we set up a large experiment with mice," Yadav says. In people, taurine levels in 60-year-old individuals were only about one-third of those found in five-year-olds. Taurine declines with age, supplementation increases lifespan in miceįirst, Yadav's team looked at levels of taurine in the bloodstream of mice, monkeys, and people and found that the taurine abundance decreases substantially with age. "We realized that if taurine is regulating all these processes that decline with age, maybe taurine levels in the bloodstream affect overall health and lifespan," Yadav says. Around the same time, other researchers were finding that taurine levels correlated with immune function, obesity, and nervous system functions. Taurine first came into Yadav's view during his previous research into osteoporosis that uncovered taurine's role in building bone.
Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Taurine supplementation makes animals healthier and live longer.
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