In this comprehensive review, taurine is discussed in terms of its essentiality, sources, health benefits in newborns and elderly, and consequences of its deficiency, as well as safety and toxicity of taurine supplementation. The objective of this study is to evaluate the available taurine-related literature and describe how taurine benefits the various bodily systems. The function of taurine towards homeostasis has captivated the scientific community's interest since 1975 ( Baliou et al., 2021).
Demarcay was the first to use the current word, taurine, in the literature in 1838. Afterward, it was given the name taurus, which comes from the Latin word Bos taurus, which means Ox. Leopold Gmelin and Friedrich Tiedemann, two German scientists, were the first to identify the currently recognized taurine derived from the bile of an ox in 1827, and they labeled it Gallen-Asparagin.
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