![]() ![]() It has neuroprotective benefits that also calm both the brain and your nervous system. ![]() Taurine accounts for about 19% of the total free amino acid pool in your brain. Let's look at a few examples of how taurine can be beneficial to your healthīrain health - every region of the brain uptakes taurine. Taurine is the most abundant amino acid found in your body especially in your liver, kidney (both key detoxification organs), muscles, and brain. If you are estrogen dominant and vegan please consider speaking to your health care provider about adding taurine into the mix as you are at greatest need for it because it's not in your diet and your body can’t synthesis it while being estrogen dominant state. Seafood, chicken, pork, meat, and eggs are good sources. Vegetarian or Vegan diets lack taurine, this is because ALL dietary sources are found in animal products. Making dietary sources or supplements more important at this stage of life. When we are in the estrogen dominant state, this blocks the taurine production pathway and favors one of the other routes. Taurine is synthesized from cysteine, but cysteine can do many things like produce glutathione, be incorporated into proteins, go down the oxidation pathway, or form taurine. ![]() The same problem can occur if you are taking Menopause Hormone Therapy without progesterone. So whether it high estrogen or low progesterone we can agree the ratio between these 2 hormones has changed and you are left with an estrogen dominant type effect. In peri-menopause your ovulation becomes irregular and if you don’t ovulate you don’t get your normal production of progesterone and this leaves you with unopposed estrogen. The first 2 points are for the same reason.
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