Scientists may have found the key to a longer life

Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life, right?

Now, new international research may have provided a breakthrough in anti-aging.

Feeding taurine gave experimental mice longer lives and better health.

Older and fresher

As humans and animals age, they produce less taurine.

The researchers wanted to know what role this substance, which we find in meat and energy drinks, plays in the aging process.

So a group of middle-aged rats were given daily doses of taurine over a number of years.

The results were as follows:

The mice lived more than ten percent longer than the mice that did not receive taurine. It was also noticeably fresher.

She was slimmer, had better energy absorption and stronger bone density. They have better memory and a younger-looking immune system, said researcher Vijay Yadav, who led the study. BBC.

– amazing

Nils Henrik Hallberg, a professor of biomedicine at the University of Bergen, is very excited about the new study.

– The study is wonderful, especially since it is very long. It’s not a lot to have studies that treat animals for more than three years, he tells TV2.

Hallberg explains that time matters when researching life expectancy. This study has been going on for eleven years.

Results include prof.

– It is in many ways a very simple study. But it’s very interesting. It shows that there is a connection between taurine and healthy aging, says Hallberg.

Tested on several animals

The researchers also tried the experiment on the ground. They also had a longer lifespan.

Then they gave a 15-year-old monkey the taurine diet.

Among other things, the monkey gained better weight, a better blood sugar level, and a better immune system.

– I thought that was too good to be true. Co-researcher Henning Wackerhage tells the BBC that Turin somehow hits the control room of aging.

It will be tested on humans

The study was published in Galilee Sciences newly.

The researchers emphasize that they cannot say whether the same effects that apply to animals will apply to humans.

But they will find out.

The researchers now hope to be able to conduct a large clinical study in humans.

They claim that if the results are similar to those in mice, it may correspond to an additional eight years of life.

Recommend against the Red Bull system

Taurine is already part of many people’s diet, as we find it in meat and eggs, among other things.

But most people don’t eat as much as the experimental animals received.

The average adult would have to eat about six grams of taurine each day to “replicate” the rat experiment, according to a calculation made by BBC.

This is equivalent to the amount of taurine found in six cans of Red Bull.

But experts don’t advise against using energy drinks or taking matters into your own hands in other ways.

– If you drink six Red Bulls every day, you’re also taking in large amounts of sugar and caffeine, says UIB’s Hallberg.

– Let’s wait for the results of a clinical study, researcher Yadav tells the BBC.

Hallberg is not sure if the results will be the same in humans. But he is excited to pursue further research.

– This is a small step forward, but really cool, he says.

This is supported by Evandro Fei Fang, associate professor at the University of Oslo and the National Center on Aging and Health.

He believes the findings bring us one step closer to combating the negative effects of aging.

Aging is a complex process and is affected by hundreds of unknown causes. He says the more we know about why we age and get sick, the better our chances of fighting it.