Pure Encapsulations Taurine 1,000 mg - Supports Heart Health & Detox - Essential Amino Acid - Liver & Gallbladder Health* - Vegan & Gluten Free - 120 Capsules

I recommend this vitamin, excellent .

Taurine is sold in health food stores with some sort of weight loss claims. I don't know whether it works for that, but I know something even more valuable. My husband has atrial fibrillation and he didn't like taking beta blockers for it - they made him very tired. A vegan physician in Portland told him to stop taking the beta blocker and take this brand of taurine instead. He told us a drug company did some studies using taurine for a-fib and they found it worked. Since taurine is a natural product, it couldn't be patented. So the company tried making small modifications to it, but with every change they made, the modified taurine either no longer worked or it had harmful side effects. Since the drug company couldn't get rich selling the natural product, they abandoned their research and moved on. My husband found it worked great to suppress his a-fib. He takes 2000 mg per day. Once we ran out of this product and just bought some taurine at Whole Foods, and another bottle (different brand) at our local health food store. In 3 days, his a-fib came back! We realized we had to get back to this brand, and we found it on Amazon. My husband is fine now. We will stay with Pure Encapsulations because it seems to be the highest quality. By the way, the doctor told us that taurine works for about 80% of people with a-fib. If a-fib comes back, he said to increase the dose to 3000 mg per day. The best part is, there are no side effects! And no, I have absolutely no commercial link with this product, but my husband is a very happy customer. By the way, the shipping cost is kind of steep, but it goes down a bit if you order more than one bottle.

I heard what I suppose is hype on Youtube about the health benefits of taurine, so I decided to try it. And what are the benefits? Well, there were a lot of things. Enough that I don't remember any. But my own experience is that I have a problem with chronically chapped lips and it doesn't help to use petroleum jelly or anything else except for a few minutes. Sometimes my hands even chap. This had totally cleared up since I've been taking taurine. How much? I've been taking 6 g, but 3 g may be enough. I'm experimenting.

I just had an aortic heart valve replacement and aortic graft from an aneurysm. Since surgery, I've felt every heart beat of every day. I met with Dr. Wolfson (holistic cardiologist) and he recommended I take taurine. I take a therapeutic dose of 6g a day, 2g 3x a day. It's the best heart supplement I own. It makes my heart beats softer and less intense. I never miss a dose. Some days I count down the hours until I can have my next dose!This is part of my heart supplement stack. Other things I take are potassium (with meals), L Lysine which converts into aminos to help build out the heart, NutraChamps fish oil, and beef heart.My holistic doctor also recommended I take natural blood thinners: ginger and turmeric. Then, systemic enzymes at night to "clean and sweep" my blood.Hope this helps!

Seems to be giving me a headache. But does help me sleep.Update 4/19Turned out this wasn't the cause of the headache. So far, it helps sleep, seems to help muscle retention/growth, keeps me calm at work without falling asleep.Update 7/28/2018Yes, the taurine does give me a headache, but only at first. The bigger issues is it increased my sleep apnea events and it increased my blood pressure. It also made me very weak. And it made me so out of it, I couldn't even put 2n2 together and realize this was causing my increase in apnea events. It also made me gain weight which isn't a surprise since it raises GABA which relaxes and slows down everything. If you look at the literature, you'll find a study done on mice (which most are), and that while it made male mice BP go down, it made female mice BP go up. So, not really a surprise thereThe good was it did help sleep; just too much. And it made my skin much better, which is due to its fluid equalizing activity. I had certain issues with skin for months just disappear while on this. Unfortunately, this is probably also why BP went up. I tried the 1,000 and the 500 and both affected me the same way. On the other hand, it made my daughter's anxiety much better.So final conclusion, if you don't have high BP or apnea, and you do have anxiety and sleep issues, then its a great supplement to take with dinner. Since none of that is why i bought it to start with, it didn't work for me for what I wanted.Update 1/26/2019Found that it was this plus something else that made my apnea events so bad. Also, since the last review was put on fluid pills, so now that plus this makes my BP perfect. (Prob could avoid the fluid pills if I went low carb) I sleep now, still wake up several times a night, but with this I'm able to go back to sleep each time instead of getting up at 2:00 a.m.

I use Tauring because my doctor recommended it for digestion function and brain health

As with all Pure Encapsulations products this meets my needs.

I like that each capsule is 1000 milligrams. I take 2-3 daily after reading about Taurine's health benefits for people over 50.