It is time to defeat mental and physical exhaustion, delay fatigue, reduce cell damage, and enhance your mental performance and mood. How can this be done you ask? A very important amino acid called, Taurine.
Taurine is actually a common ingredient in most energy drinks and is also the second most copious amino acid in the body after glutamine. You can find taurine mostly in the brain, heart and bloodstream where it works as a potent antioxidant and aids to supports both mental and athletic performance.
It is a conditional amino acid, which means that taurine can be produced in small amounts by the body naturally, but it is largely derived from food sources like meat, fish or through supplementation.
Taurine is known to increase muscle mass, strength and power, reduce muscle damage caused by exercise, accelerate recovery between workouts, and can also have an insulin-like effect in the body, helping to load essential nutrients into muscle tissue.
Thought to be from taurine’s potent antioxidant activity, studied trials have found that taurine supplementation can result in significant increases in VO2max (which is the maximum capacity a person’s body and bloodstream can take to transport and utilize oxygen). With increased oxygen availability and reduced cellular damage from free radicals, taurine has been shown to enhance endurance and drastically delay the onset of fatigue.