Like Beet Juice, Taurine Supplementation May Only Be Safe in the Context of a Plant-Based Diet
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Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM
4.8 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In my last videos, I mentioned how the best choice might be to eat a healthy plant-based |
| 0:11.4 | diet with supplemental torin, but it's possible that taking torrent, whether from |
| 0:17.0 | bulk powder, supplements, energy drinks, or even shellfish may only be safe in the |
| 0:21.9 | context of a healthy plant-based diet. |
| 0:25.1 | In the remarkable study that launched this video series, Torin supplementation of lab animals |
| 0:29.6 | increased their lifespan and their health span. |
| 0:32.6 | However, the impact of Torin dietary supplementation on the gut microbiome was not addressed. |
| 0:38.3 | Oral administration of torring results in an increase of torring conjugated bile acids. |
| 0:45.3 | For example, quadrupling, the percentage of torracholic acid, that's not good because |
| 0:51.3 | higher levels of toracolic acid in humans is associated with a shorter |
| 0:55.2 | lifespan. |
| 0:56.2 | For each standard deviation increase in a measure of turacolate, which is just buffered |
| 1:00.8 | toracolic acid, the odds of achieving longevity in humans appear to decrease by almost |
| 1:06.3 | 40 percent, 30 percent lower chance of making it to age 80. |
| 1:11.6 | What happens is the metabolism of these touring conjugated bileases by our gut microbes |
| 1:17.6 | generates the rotten egg gas, hydrogen sulfide, which doesn't just give you smelly farts, |
| 1:24.6 | but it's a DNA-damaging compound. |
| 1:28.1 | So hydrogen sulfide could be a significant bacterial metabolite that initiates colon cancer. |
| 1:34.5 | And that's just half of it. |
| 1:35.9 | Torcholic acid gets split into torrent and colic acid. |
| 1:39.1 | The torring goes on to produce hydrogen sulfide, which pro-inflammatory and can trigger DNA mutations, and the |
| 1:44.9 | colic acid gets turned into a toxic, so-called secondary bile acid called deoxycolic acid, known |
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