Taurine in Energy Drinks: Heart Healthy?
Here’s an article for all the energy drink haters and nay sayers.
As well as one for the energy fans to use as justification for drinking your beloved beverage.
Taurine, which is found in most popular energy drinks such as Red Bull has been showing very promising health benefits when it comes to heart health. First, It’s important to know that Taurine is naturally found in and produced by our bodies. The largest concentrations are found in bile, our brain, and our muscles.
Studies have shown that taurine can help lower cholesterol, increase the effectiveness of heart muscle contractions, and improve blood flow and oxygen supply to heart cells.
Taurine is found naturally in mainly meat based products and can be taken as a supplement such as in energy drinks, up to about 3000mg per day. Any more then this just gets excreted by the kidneys. So the next time your sitting around with your friends drinking a big can of Monster, raise your cans in the air, toast, and say “here’s to our hearts!”
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Taurine Rules! RIP
Who sits around and drinks a big can of Monster with their friends?
I’ve read somewhere that the taurine in energy drinks is just a marketing gimmik. It is synthetic taurine which our bodies cannot use. Onlt taurine produced by the human body can be used by the human body.
Supposedly cow milk also has taurine in it, but because it is cow taurine it is just discharged by our bodies again.
I just saw an online ad for cat food with added Taurine for heart health- I stared at it for a long minute before I realised where I had seen “taurine” before! LOL
Well, If it’s good enough for cats it must be good for us too…lol
i hate monster, it doesnt do anything to me. its boring. Venom is awesome though