Aging “is one of the great biological unknowns ... Irving Medical Center and colleagues found that extra taurine extended mice’s median life spans by 10 to 12 percent.

Older mice whose levels of taurine are "topped ... It's still unclear how taurine might help slow aging, but it seems to have a positive effect on many hallmarks of aging at the cellular level ...

Serum taurine declines with age in people (left), mice (middle), and rhesus monkeys (right). [Courtesy of Singh et al., Science, 2023.] Would boosting taurine levels in older animals slow aging? The ...

And middle-aged mice that regularly took taurine supplements ... The researchers also found supporting evidence for the anti-aging potential of taurine in people by analyzing two data sets.

In a paper published June 8 in Science, researchers report on encouraging results that show taurine can slow aging in a number of animal species, including worms, mice, and monkeys. In people ...

The same study also found that taurine supplements can slow down the aging process in worms, mice, and monkeys and can even extend the healthy lifespans of middle-aged mice by up to 12%.

But worms, mice and monkeys are not people, and science is years away from proving taurine’s anti-aging value in humans — if it even exists, experts warn. “This doesn’t seem like a story ...

Taurine, a nutrient found naturally in fish and meat and added as a supplement to many popular energy drinks, appears to help promote healthy aging — at least in mice and monkeys. Low taurine ...

Older mice whose levels of taurine are "topped back up" to youthful ... "Taurine somehow seems to hit the engine room of aging," said Henning Wackerhage, a co-author and professor of exercise ...