The Best Daily Dose of Taurine
NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast
Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM
4.8 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The remarkable trial showing that Torian supplementation improved the lifespan and health span of animals |
| 0:11.7 | used doses that may far exceed the recommended safe consumption limits in humans. |
| 0:18.4 | At the press conference, the corresponding author said that they would not |
| 0:22.2 | recommend people start taking Torian supplements to try to preserve health or slow aging. |
| 0:27.7 | Not only do we have no human studies showing that kind of benefit, we don't even know |
| 0:31.8 | what the potential risks are since we don't have large long-term human safety trials. |
| 0:37.1 | My last video I talked about those who might be particularly sensitive to |
| 0:40.1 | Taurian and what happens at least in the short term if we exceed recommended intakes, |
| 0:45.0 | if, after careful consideration you still want to give it a try, what source, dose, and frequency |
| 0:52.5 | might be best. |
| 0:54.1 | In terms of frequency, the bump in our bloodstream |
| 0:56.2 | only lasts about six hours, so we'd presumably want to split doses to maintain higher levels, |
| 1:00.6 | for example three times a day, like at every meal. What dose? Well, just for context, |
| 1:07.2 | most people get between 40 and 400 milligrams a day through their diet. So that's like a normal, typical daily dose. |
| 1:13.6 | If our goal is to restore youthful levels, we want to bump our levels up from around the 50-micromole range to maybe the 100 or 200 range. |
| 1:23.6 | Here's a study where participants got 400 milligrams a day, up at the higher end of a normal |
| 1:28.9 | dietary dose, for a week and got levels into that upper range. |
| 1:34.0 | Here, a 2 gram daily dose also pushed levels into that target range, but unfortunately |
| 1:39.3 | studies are all over the place. |
| 1:41.9 | Here's a good illustration of why using a blood target level doesn't work. |
| 1:46.6 | These 10 people were given one grammatorium three times a day for a month. |
| 1:50.2 | First of all, see how they started all over the place, from 18 to more than 600? |
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