{"id":22253,"date":"2017-07-25T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=22253"},"modified":"2017-07-25T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:08:12","slug":"lifestyle-taurine-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-taurine-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle: taurine, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Going online for self-tutoring about energy drinks, the tutor follows the leads as they come: more about taurine.<\/h1>\n<p>In <a href=\"?p=?22218\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> I began about taurine and reported that two sources suggest 3000mg per day, in most cases, is thought to be safe&#8211;I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s for an adult.<\/p>\n<p>Why is taurine in energy drinks, anyway? What possible benefit might it convey?<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, taurine (within safe dosage, of course) can offer the following benefits:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Taurine can decrease anxiety.<\/li>\n<li>Taurine can promote fat burning.<\/li>\n<li>Taurine can increase insulin sensitivity.<\/li>\n<li>Taurine can elevate testosterone.<\/li>\n<li>Taurine is an antioxidant.<\/li>\n<li>Taurine can increase exercise performance, and may also help recovery.<\/li>\n<li>Taurine can help lower blood pressure.<\/li>\n<li>Taurine, with magnesium, can promote better sleep.<\/li>\n<li>Taurine, with caffeine, can enhance mental performance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I suspect that several of the benefits above are not typically what people imagine when they reach for energy drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/main.poliquingroup.com\/articlesmultimedia\/articles\/article\/782\/ten_benefits_of_taurine.aspx\">main.poliquingroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going online for self-tutoring about energy drinks, the tutor follows the leads as they come: more about taurine. In yesterday&#8217;s post I began about taurine and reported that two sources suggest 3000mg per day, in most cases, is thought to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-taurine-part-1\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle: taurine, part 1<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2414],"tags":[2417],"class_list":["post-22253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-drinks","tag-what-are-the-benefits-of-taurine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22253"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22304,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions\/22304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}