Energy drinks are widely consumed the United States, with sales exceeding 350 million

gallons.

There's only like 335 million people in the U.S.

So we each average more than a gallon a year?

Is there just the caffeine that people are after?

A major ingredient in popular energy drinks is Toreen.

What is that?

Taurine is one of the most abundant free amino acids in our body, free as in not incorporated into proteins. We make it in our own bodies, that's why it's considered non-essential, as in we don't have

to get any in our diet.

However, premature infants are vulnerable to torring deficiency because they initially

lack some of the enzymes needed to synthesize tureen, but breast milk provides all the

torsion they need,

and it's often added to infant formula as well.

We aren't the only animals who make it.

The name Torine derives from the Latin Taurus, meaning bowl or ox, because Toreen was first

isolated from the bile of an ox in 1827, decades before it was discovered in people.

It's funny in my search of the medical literature, I kept coming across articles on

Torrine surgery.

What does that mean?

That's what they call surgery for bullfighting injuries.

Anyway, Torin was first isolated in the 1800s, but not much was known about this molecule

until the 1990s after we found low levels and preterm formula-fed infants.

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