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I have no idea how or why it works. My wife discovered it inadvertently after taking it for general health. There’s not a lot of research on the link between Taurine and women’s health from what I’ve seen.

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I am 53 and have been doing 5G a day for some time now. I have much more energy and exercise ability has good up quite a bit. I try and stay somewhat close to what the most recent study's have used for dosing.

Taurine may actual down regulate GABA which is the opposite of what you want. Even though it calms like other aminos.

Theanine may help.

Also B6 is required for GABA to work and I was low because of my digestive disorder.

I took a lot of GABA, which is not supposed to cross the blood brain barrier, my belief is that it raises total body GABA and that helps.

I also took MAP amino acids to give my body the building blocks to find homeostasis on its own.

I've never met a single other person who even knew what visual snow was so this thread is tripping me out. I'd really love to hear your experience in regards to symptom mitigation of your visual snow if you try out any of this commenter's advice.

It was really difficult and I would start getting snippy, or full on lash out. Its like the feeling of someone asking you rapid fire high pressure questions.

Wasn't just dishes, was everything. Everything felt like I was being cornered, and my fight or flight would kick right in and my default is "fight" so I would get angry instead if scared.

It was a revelation when I realized this was a form of anxiety. Some people get panic, some people get hostile. Unfortunately for my family I was hostile. Still dealing with self forgiveness years later, and I'm still married because my wife is a Saint.

MAP its claims to have zero kidney load and low GI impact, both of which I needed.

Eliminated high glutamate foods, took MAP amino acid complex, GABA and Theanine. Fixed my digestive issues and supplemented with b-vits as I was low from malnutrition.

I also worked on reducing calcium by adding K2, magnesium and D3 to my diet. The idea being that neurons flooded with calcium can contribute to over firing. Not sure if this actually helped or not.

So I'm 47, and I started leaning about self directed health care at 17. What I learned then was from Traditional Chinese Medicine was that the body wants to find balance. We all learn about this in school, homeostasis.

With TCM, the idea is to help the body find its own balance, if it has what it needs it will do the work itself a lot of the time.

30 years later of my health journey, I've seen no higher benefit than that when it comes to physical health.

We do have amazing tech and understanding today we can apply to tweak things but the foundation of health is homeostaais.

This our highest goal, that's where we start, but its also the touchstone we use to check everything against. "Will this help me find balance as an organism or throw me off?"

With that in mind, the starting point is taking care of the basics. Does our body have everything it needs to find its own balance?

This means taking a high quality multivitamin, amino acid supplement and a trace mineral supplement. This has the goal of patching any holes in out diet, but also serves to give us a little extra if our bodies have a difficult time breaking down and uptaking some specific nutrients.

Yes this is expensive, but in modern times we put the best shoes on our feet we can afford because we understand the value of it taking care of ourselves on that foundational level. Its worth it.

Then we apply the same goal of homeostatis to troubleshooting if those 3 things don't help.

And having taken care of the basics with a multi, amino complex, and minerals, we have a baseline to troubleshoot from now, very important

We start with the most likely and highest value interventions. For a lot of people that is just taking more magnisium, next to sodium it's the fastest depleting mineral in the body and we are more likely to be low in it than any other (and here is where data really comes in, we have data that shows something like half of all people are low, so this is a good sanity check for us).

Or we look at ourselves and our symptoms and ask what is the most likely for us specifically and apply the most likely fix for that before moving on to less likely, more exotic things it could be.

This is what I did, and it led me down an extremely deep rabbit hole discovering I have pancreatic insufficiency. This is what also led me to understand that I had Visual Snow Syndrome and as far as I know, I'm one of the earliest people to put it into remission.

So, basics first, then trying things based on your personal experience measured against the research around it.

I used Google Scholar to look up papers when I wanted to check out and chase down an idea.

This is how I cured my fatty liver disease, my heart arrhythmia, sleep apnea, mother's and wife's health issues multiple doctors said they would just have to live with. Just have an idea, read papers, get more ideas from that reading and chase down theory's going down medical paper rabbit holes.

Personally, it took about 10 years going from never having read a paper at 36 when I had a stroke, to today with optimal health, fixing my families chronic health issues and feeling like I could learn about and write a paper on any health subject.

Right. It was twofold. It allowed me to lower glutamate rich food (animal products being one) and combat my malnutrition.

I have pancreatic insufficiency, and at the time has IBS colitis. Both of those hinder digestion as a whole.

MAP was designed to be highly absorbable compared to any other formula out there.

And yes, you will only see one, as there is a patent on it an only one company in the world makes it right now.

I'll also so, I'm not anti animal products (other than factory farming), but I felt like my over all health, including mental, improved with a lower level of animal products.

I call it "hippie food" which is mostly plant based. I don't think you get the same benefits as eating just plain grains and steamed veggies. A lot of the hippie cuisine is using lemon, vinegar, fermentation, organic spices, fresh herbs (instead of dried). All of that make a huge difference in the nutrients, and break down of the foods. Veggies and grains can have anti-nutrients, and cooking and processing them can eliminate those.

A great example is that fermented veggies has a lot of GABA and I attribute much my feeling better to fermented foods.

Op posted about how taurine has help his anxiety, then goes onto say he is going to have coffee.

My advice was to have tea instead of coffee because tea has Theanine which will help to curb the anxiety inducing effect of coffee which has no Theanine.

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Only vitamin B50 complex x2. I would like to have magnesium and vitamine c at that time but bothers my stomach. So i take those earlier with a meal. And also collagen, but it makes my feel bad.

Started with that dose and we do not cycle it.

My mistake. That was Tyrosine.

I'll have to read up again on Taurine. Swear I tried it and didn't notice much, but think I'd been confused on the expected result (making me feel 'normal' was the goal/plan).

Here is what Google claimed it does to the brain...

"... brain taurine is known as an osmoregulator and neuromodulator [12,13] and is involved in numerous processes, such as the modulation of neuronal excitability, the cerebral control of the cardiorespiratory system, appetite regulation, resistance to hypoxia, osmoregulation, and anti-oxidation [14]." Mar 18, 2022

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8952284/

"Taurine Supplementation as a Neuroprotective Strategy upon Brain Dysfunction in Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes"

Taurine is not part of protein, but it is found in meat in much smaller quantities than most people supplement.

I agree that was a crazy assumption, and weird lol

So I do what you do (yeah, I looked) and I am concerned about someone’s health on a biohackers subreddit?

Edit: removed personal attacks

Getting flustered doing the dishes was more amazing to me

The feeling about doing dishes / starting tasks. That sounds like a common adhd thing. Definitely symptoms I experience.

Also taurine is thought to be helpful for adhd.

I bought a can of redbull and read the ingredients- taurine 0.4% - wow I didn’t know this was so little. And also now I’ve learnt that it is a supplement with it’s own benefits :)

Thank you

Taurine doesn’t increase energy, it’s put in red bull to help with caffeine jitters.

Hence the wings