NOW Supplements, Taurine Pure Powder, Nervous System Health*, Amino Acid, 8-Ounce

I have Myotonia Congenita, a disorder caused by a mutation to the chloride channel gene CLCN1. Because of it, my skeletal muscles contract too long after a period of rest. Repeated movements temporarily reduce symptoms. Its the same mutation that the fainting goats have. They dont faint - their muscles contract and they lose their balance. Taurine is said to help open chloride channels and close sodium channels. Myotonia Congenita is caused by the inability of chloride ions to pass through cell membranes at a normal rate to allow the muscles to relax normally (I think?? The academic papers I tried to read were ridiculously hard to understand). There has been one study related to taurine and Myotonia Congenita, with encouraging results. Due to the small number of studies on the condition, this is the most **verified** evidence to be found. However, anecdotal reports among the community found that energy drinks with taurine seemed to help alleviate symptoms. Others then tried specifically taurine and found that it often did help. In the past couple days of taking this supplement, I can say for a fact that it helps me. I can feel the effects within an hour of using it. Usually when I clench my fist, it takes a good 10+ seconds to fully open. With the supplement, it takes maybe a second or two. When getting up from a chair, it usually takes me up to 30 seconds to stand up fully and be able to walk. With taurine, it takes only up to 15 seconds, sometimes even less. I dont know if it will work forever, or if my body will develop a tolerance to it over time. All I can say right now is that Im grateful for its effects right now. My only other alternative is medication, and the medications for myotonia all come with some potential side effects that are very serious (for one of them one of the possible side effects is literally cardiac arrest. Ill pass).

So far this is great! Love the powder option!

The powder form of Taurine is perfect for adding to my vitamin/mineral mix which I add to raw cat food. This is just one ingredient to my supplement mix which is important to add when feeding a raw food diet. Thanks, good product.

This powder, along with powdered Potassium Gluconate from Now Brands and Magnesium Taurate pills have stopped my constant heart palpitations. For 38 years, I never had a heart palpitation problem. One day, I spent way too long in the sun doing hot and sweaty work, and forgot to eat lunch or even drink Gatorade. Then, at dinner, I ate a particularly salty piece of chicken. Boy I was sorry! Later that night, I couldnt go to sleep because it felt like my heart was trying to jump out of my chest. I nearly panicked and called 911 until I searched online and found I might have an electrolyte imbalance from sweating all day then eating too much sodium. I drank a bottle of Gatorade and the palpitations stopped almost immediately. However, the next day, I had more. Not constantly like the night before - when I thought I was dying - but one or two palpitations every few minutes. It was annoying and disturbing. A doctors visit turned up no major health problems, and his prognosis was well, this is something youll just have to live with for the rest of your life. I was NOT satisfied with that (when do doctors EVER get anything right, anyway?) so I looked around online and found that Potassium Gluconate and Taurine might help. I also added in 450 mg of Magnesium Taurate for good measure. Its difficult to pin-point which one is doing the most good, but when I ran out of this Taurine powder, the palpitations came back immediately. If youre experiencing heart palpitations, I highly recommend trying this. Im taking 1/2 teaspoon once a day, dissolved in a glass of water with 1/2 teaspoon Potassium Gluconate powder. The water tastes a little funny, but I got used to it. I sometimes add another 1/2 teaspoon each to Gatorade if Im planning on more hot sweaty work.

I read articles that claim taurine is a remedy for heart problems. I was having some issues with my heart, so I tried this. I took one quarter of a teaspoon twice a day, and after four days my heart was back to normal. Many benefits are claimed for taurine, including relieving inflammation, pain relief, improving brain health and mental focus, improving athletic performance, improving eyesight, relieving muscle soreness. Taurine might lower blood pressure. Many bodybuilders take taurine. Taurine is naturally found in fish, meat, eggs, clams, and goat milk, but when food is cooked, some of the taurine is lost. Taurine supplements are synthetic and made in a lab. Almost all taurine supplements are sourced from China. If it says made in the USA on the label of a taurine supplement, it might mean taurine sourced from China was put into a container in the USA. The only difference between brands is probably how well they test the taurine for impurities. If you make homemade cat food for your cat, you need to add taurine to it. In cats, a taurine deficiency can lead to blindness and heart failure. Not getting enough taurine can also cause hair loss and tooth decay in cats. Most commercially made cat food contains taurine, but some dont have enough in it. This taurine powder has no extra ingredients, so it is ideal for cats. UPDATE This really worked. But after taking it for a week I suddenly had a bad allergic reaction to it, so I had to stop taking it.

This is perfect for cat health! My little 22 yr. old kitty gets this in/on his food. It melts in food like powdered sugar & disappears, or coats dry food. Its tasteless for him, no texture, or smell to clue him in that Im putting something in his food. Taurine is required for cats, included in cat foods, but not in enough quantity from all Ive been told. My vet says to give 1/8th tsp./daily on top of what is in cat foods. Its just peed off if theres more than the cat needs without harming the cat. Not enough leads to heart disease / blindness / & high blood pressure in cats. I wish Id known about it 10 yrs. earlier before my cat had any of these problems. Now hes blind, has high blood pressure, & a bad heart, but the taurine I give him now has helped him keep on purring happily these last couple of years. Hell be 23 soon & I am positive it wouldnt happen without the taurine. All cat owners should add this to their cats food (1/8th tsp./day). It will help younger cats not to be blind in their old age. This 8 oz. bottle lasts my kitty about 6 or 7 months, so its very cheap as well as effective!

Raw Cat Food Diet Recipe Made WITH Real Bones 2 kg [4.4 pounds] raw muscle meat with bones (chicken thighs and drumsticks or, better, a whole carcass of rabbit or chicken amounting to 2 kg; if you dont use a whole carcass, opt for dark meat like thighs and drumsticks from chicken or turkey and remove/dont use 20 to 25 percent of the bone; if using whole rabbit, which has a higher bone-to-meat ratio than chicken, dilute the extra bone by adding another 20 to 25 percent of plain muscle meat and skin and fat from rabbit, chicken, or turkey) 400 grams [14 oz] raw heart (best not to use use beef heart; if no heart is available, substitute with 4000 mg Taurine) 200 grams [7 oz] raw liver (dont use beef liver; if you cant find appropriate liver, you can substitute 40,000 IU of Vitamin A and 1600 IU of Vitamin D--but try to use real liver rather than substitutes) NOTE: If you cannot find the heart or liver and decide to substitute with the Taurine/Vitamin A and D, then remember to REPLACE the missing amount of organ meat with the equivalent amount of muscle meat. In other words, if you cannot find heart, you add another 400 grams of the meat/bones. If you cant find the liver, add another 200 grams of meat/bone. 16 oz [2 cups] water 4 raw egg yolks (use eggs from free-range, antibiotic-free chickens if you can)*** 4 capsules raw glandular supplement, such as, for example, multigland supplement by Immoplex. 4000 mg salmon oil (see note at bottom of recipe*) 800 IU Vitamin E (dry E works well) 200 mg Vitamin B-50 complex (i.e., four capsules of B-50) 1.5 tsp. Lite salt (with iodine) (optional: 4 tsp. psyllium husk powder (8 tsp. if using whole psyllium husks; see note at bottom of recipe**) NOTE: If you will not be using the food immediately and freezing for more than a week or two, toss in 4000 mg of additional Taurine to make up for what may get lost during storage. It is also not a bad idea to sprinkle extra Taurine from a capsule on the food as youre serving it two or three times a week, just to be certain your cat is getting plenty of this critical amino acid. 1. Remove about half of the skin from the muscle meat. Chunk up (i.e., cut) as much of the muscle meat (minus most of the skin if using chicken or turkey, but leave skin on if using rabbit) as you can stand into bite-sized (nickel-sized, approximately) pieces. Save the chunked meat for later. Do not grind it. 2. Grind the raw liver, any skin, raw meaty bones, and raw heart. Once ground, stir this meat/bone mixture well and return to refrigerator. 3. Fill a bowl with 2 cups of water and whisk everything (non-meat) except the psyllium. If you had to replace liver with Vitamin A/D or replace heart with Taurine, add the substitutes now. Add psyllium at the end -- if youre using it -- and mix well. Finally, put the three mixtures together--the supplement slurry that you have just mixed, the ground up meat/bone/organs, and the chunks of meat that you cut up by hand. Portion into containers and freeze. Dont overfill the containers. The food expands when frozen and you dont want lids popping off. Thaw as you go. The food shouldnt be left thawed in the refrigerator more than 48 hours before serving. To serve, portion into a zipper baggie and warm under hot water in the sink. NEVER microwave the food. Cats like their food at something approximating mouse body temperature. *Every two or three days, I suggest sprinkling a few drops of fresh salmon oil from a newly-opened capsule on to the cats food. The Essential Fatty Acids in salmon oil are extremely fragile, and since we do not know exactly how much gets lost during freezing, I think its wise to use a bit of fresh salmon oil directly on the food a few times a week. Most cats love the flavor. **Not all cats require additional fiber (psyllium) in their diet. If your cat has been eating low-quality commercial food for several years, especially dry food, she may have lost bowel elasticity and may benefit from the extra fiber. As a general rule, I recommend using psyllium when an adult cat first gets raw food. I rarely add much psyllium to my adult cats diet. Bear in mind that some cats seem to get constipated without additional fiber, whereas other cats seem to get constipated if they get too much fiber. Each cat is unique, and youll have to judge what works best for your cat. ***If you dont want to waste the egg whites and dont feel like making an angel food cake, poach them, grind them, and throw them in with the food. A nice phosphorus-free source of protein.

Im taking 1 gram of this four times a day along with L-Arginine at the same dosage (at the same time, too) for heart palpitations. Im only taking 4 grams a day because I had read somewhere that anything more than that would be considered to be high dosages. I started experiencing a lot of heart palpitations while going through menopause and my doctor had said that my heart sounds perfectly normal to him. Ive had holter monitors in the past which show nothing, but these palpitations drive me crazy. After about two weeks, I started noticing a difference in my palpitations. I rarely experience them now, and when I do, they are much shorter than what they used to be. I was having 22 incidences per hour on some days... now, I rarely have any. Mostly have them in the mornings when I wake up when I havent had any of the supplements through the night. Be aware that this combination of supplements can drop your blood pressure, so you need to keep an eye on that and of course contact your physician before adding any supplements such as this to your diet, especially if you are taking blood pressure medications as I am.

This product literally turned my life around. My roommate started adding it to her cats food (in tiny cat-sized quantities) and the cat, a 14-year-old, went from hiding under a blanket and sleeping 23 hours a day to playing and acting like a kitten again. I looked into its effects on diabetics, and the jury is still out in the scientific community. I started adding a small amount to my tea each day, and within two days I felt 100% better. I suffer from chronic depression, diabetes, and early-onset arthritis. Since adding this to my diet, I havent felt my depression, I have energy for the first time in years, and Im able to function properly. I still have arthritis and diabetes, but Im able to move around more and that helps with both of those. I dont know if the depression is just cyclic, but I havent had any energy since I was a teenager. It should be noted that at the same time I started taking this, I also started getting more UVb, to increase my Vitamin D levels. Still, Ive done that before, and it helped a little, but not like Im experiencing right now. I think the Taurine is making a huge difference. I was skeptical at first, less about the efficacy of taurine supplements than about whether this was actually taurine, as many nutritional supplements contain exactly none of the ingredients on their ingredients list (studies were done, fraud was found, but there are no laws regulating nutritional supplements), but I feel different enough that I think its safe to assume that this one is pretty accurate.

I purchase taurine for homemade cat food. This is a good price. I will buy again.