Taurine 1000mg Double Strength | 100 or 250 Capsules | NOW Foods

Taurine 1000mg Double Strength by NOW Foods

Are you looking for a simple way to add taurine to your daily routine without opening a can of energy drink? These capsules from NOW Foods each contain 1000mg of free-form taurine. That is twice as much as their standard version, hence the name Double Strength. This means you take fewer capsules for the same amount. Convenient if you already know taurine and know what you are looking for. You can choose from a bottle of 100 or 250 capsules.

What taurine actually is

Taurine is often called an amino acid, but technically it is an aminosulfonic acid (a relative of amino acids with a sulfur group instead of an acid group). The difference lies in what your body does with it. You use regular amino acids to build proteins. Not taurine. It is freely dissolved in your cells, especially in your heart, muscles, brain, and eyes. Your body makes it itself from cysteine and methionine, two sulfur-containing amino acids. In addition, you get it from food such as fish, shellfish, meat, and dairy. Good to know: the name comes from the Latin taurus, bull, because it was first extracted from ox gall in the nineteenth century. The taurine in these capsules is simply made synthetically and is therefore vegan.

Taurine in your body

Taurine is freely dissolved in your cells. In your liver, your body couples taurine with bile acids. There are no approved EU health claims for taurine.

Where you get your taurine from

The biggest sources of taurine on your plate are shellfish, dark chicken meat, and fish. A serving of mussels or squid easily provides a few hundred milligrams. Dairy and red meat contain less, and plant-based products contain almost nothing. Yet your body also produces some itself. That own production goes through your liver and is dependent on enough cysteine, methionine, and vitamin B6.

1000mg per capsule, why that dose

An average Western diet provides about 40 to 400mg of taurine per day. With 1000mg per capsule, you get 2 grams with two capsules. NOW Foods advises a maximum of two capsules per day. What many people do not know: taurine from a can of energy drink contains about 1000mg per 250ml, but then with sugar and caffeine added. These taurine capsules give you the same amount without those additives. The capsule is made of plant-based cellulose and only contains some stearic acid (a plant-based fatty acid that makes filling the capsules easier).

In short, you get exactly what is on the label here: 1000mg of taurine per capsule, without yeast, gluten, soy, or milk. With one capsule per day, the bottle of 100 capsules means over three months' supply and the bottle of 250 capsules over eight months.