Taurine may reverse these diabetes complications

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You will love taurine when you finish today’s newsletter.

What’s taurine?

Taurine is a sort of amino acid — which means that it’s a type of protein.

Let me explain where you get it in your diet.

Taurine is found in high quantities in seafood.

It is not found in plants much at all, so vegetarians probably do not get enough taurine.

In theory, our bodies can make taurine.

But there is evidence that consuming additional taurine is very useful if you have certain problems.

You can buy it cheaply as a powder and add it to your shakes, food or smoothies.

So here’s why you might want to look into supplementing with taurine.

Taurine has a list of health benefits, particularly for diabetics.

In this study, they work with one of the poisons that’s produced in the diabetic body in great quantities.

These poisons are called advanced glycation end (AGE) products.

AGE is made when sugar bangs around your cells for a long time, but your cells don’t want to eat the sugar.

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Diabetics have that problem — their cells are not taking up the sugar.

Their cells are burning fat instead of sugar, so the cells are not eating the sugar.

This loose sugar is bouncing around the body until it creates advanced glycation end products.

So diabetics have a lot of advanced glycation end products.

And generally so do older people in general, even people who are not diabetic.

This probably because everything just becomes less efficient as we age.

But taurine’s natural benefits may be able to help with that problem.

Taurine may reverse these diabetes complicationsIn this study, researchers were specifically targeting the kidneys.

They wanted to see what happens to the cells that line the kidneys.

Their focus was the cells that extract the bad stuff in the blood and expel it in the urine.

It’s well-known that these cells get a lot of the AGE-products.

As a result, the kidneys become sick and they build up scar tissue called fibrosis.

If you been paying attention to my newsletters, you know that the same thing happens in the penis.

Penile fibrosis, kidney fibrosis — it’s all fibrosis.

So researchers found that by giving the test subjects taurine, the fibrosis is prevented or even reversed.

The results obtained in this study suggest that taurine may serve as the potential anti-fibrotic activity

There’s absolutely every reason to think that taurine will help penile fibrosis as well.

It certainly is valuable to take extra taurine if you are diabetic, or prediabetic.

It’s also a great idea to take taurine if you have any kind of penile fibrosis or suspicions that you may have it.

Taurine helps in other instances too, so it’s worth trying.

If you like Red Bull, it contains 1 g of taurine per can.

That’s one way you can get some taurine.

Or, you can simply buy a bag of it for around $15, the bag will last you a year or two.

Even better, eat a lot of shrimp, and oysters, and scallops.

The cheapest seafood, shrimp, contains a load of taurine.

You can get 400 mg of taurine in a half a pound of shrimp.

Taurine has many benefits.

I often take 1000 to 3000mg of taurine on most days.

You don’t want too much taurine because it will raise prolactin.

But most of us are low in taurine and could use some more.

Taurine even has a very protective effect on the lens of the eye just as it protects us against fibrosis in other parts the body — including penile fibrosis.


Matt Cook is editor-in-chief of Daily Medical Discoveries. Matt has been a full time health researcher for 26 years. ABC News interviewed Matt on sexual health issues not long ago. Matt is widely quoted on over 1,000,000 websites. He has over 300,000 daily newsletter readers. Daily Medical Discoveries finds hidden, buried or ignored medical studies through the lens of 100 years of proven science. Matt heads up the editorial team of scientists and health researchers. Each discovery is based upon primary studies from peer reviewed science sources following the Daily Medical Discoveries 7 Step Process to ensure accuracy.
Effect of taurine on advanced glycation end products-induced hypertrophy in renal tubular epithelial cells
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041008X08003712