What’s Taurine and Why Do We Care? (Part 3)
Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger
Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The final installment discussing this nonessential amino acid.
This episode features audio from:
- Where to Find Taurine and the Best Source
- Like Beet Juice, Taurine Supplementation May Only Be Safe in the Context of a Plant-Based Diet
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| 0:00.8 | Trying to stay healthy can seem like a full-time job sometimes, especially with all the conflicting |
| 0:07.1 | information that's out there. |
| 0:08.7 | But I'm here to make that job a little easier. |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. |
| 0:18.0 | Today we bring you the final installment on Torrine, and we start by comparing the cost, |
| 0:22.8 | convenience, and safety of various plant, animal, and supplemental sources of |
| 0:27.5 | of torane. |
| 0:29.2 | Foods that contain the highest levels of torrent come from the sea, particularly seaweed |
| 0:34.2 | and shellfish. |
| 0:35.4 | The most concentrated source, though, is dried nory, |
| 0:38.3 | the seaweed sheets used to make sushi. Land plants, however, have negligible amounts. |
| 0:44.3 | So a singular focus on increasing dietary torin risks driving poor nutritional choices, |
| 0:50.3 | because plant-rich diets are associated with human health and longevity. I mean, energy drinks have Torin too, but slamming monster Red Bull Rockstar cocaine is |
| 1:01.0 | probably not the best option. |
| 1:04.0 | The best choice would probably be to eat a healthy plant-based diet with supplemental |
| 1:09.0 | Torin. |
| 1:10.0 | It's such a simple molecule. It can be |
| 1:12.5 | inexpensively synthesized. You can just get pure tourine powder. Here's how it all breaks down. |
| 1:19.7 | We can start with concentration. Pure torine obviously has the most. Then dried nori. |
| 1:25.3 | Then an average of clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops, |
| 1:29.6 | then the average across nine energy drinks, then fin fish, including the highest yellow |
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