I'm beginning to belive that the most important mechanism for the effect of Taurine is that it creates a slightly alkaline substrate in mitocondria, which is perfect for it's enzymes to work well.
So, it simply makes the cells energy production work better.
Or even is necessary for it to work at all!
This is from a PubMed abstract:
"The very high concentration of taurine in oxidative tissue has recently led to discussions on the role of taurine in the mitochondria, e.g. with taurine acting as a pH buffer in the mitochondrial matrix. A very important consequence of the slightly alkaline pH is the fact that the NADH/NAD(+) redox pair can be brought in redox equilibrium with the GSH redox pair GSH/GSSG.An additional consequence of having GSH as redox buffer is the fact that from the pH dependence of its redox potential, it becomes possible to explain that the mitochondrial membrane potential has been observed to be independent of the matrix pH."<<
>>The first 7:30 min is about AKG.
I'm beginning to belive that the most important mechanism for the effect of Taurine is that it creates a slightly alkaline substrate in mitocondria, which is perfect for it's enzymes to work well.
So, it simply makes the cells energy production work better.
Or even is necessary for it to work at all!
This is from a PubMed abstract:
"The very high concentration of taurine in oxidative tissue has recently led to discussions on the role of taurine in the mitochondria, e.g. with taurine acting as a pH buffer in the mitochondrial matrix. A very important consequence of the slightly alkaline pH is the fact that the NADH/NAD(+) redox pair can be brought in redox equilibrium with the GSH redox pair GSH/GSSG.An additional consequence of having GSH as redox buffer is the fact that from the pH dependence of its redox potential, it becomes possible to explain that the mitochondrial membrane potential has been observed to be independent of the matrix pH."<<