{"id":11986,"date":"2023-06-10T01:58:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T20:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11986"},"modified":"2025-03-30T06:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T01:09:05","slug":"what-is-taurine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-taurine\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Taurine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Taurine:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>naturally occurring sulfur-containing amino acid.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s particularly <strong>concentrated in your brain, eyes, heart, and muscles<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sources<\/strong>: Taurine <strong>occurs naturally in foods with protein, such as meat or fish.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The human body uses taurine <strong>for actions in cells.<\/strong> One example is that <strong>taurine is used for energy production.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Taurine also <strong>helps the body process bile acid and balance fluids, salts and minerals,<\/strong> among other actions.<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>important functions in the heart and brain. It helps support nerve growth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It might also <strong>benefit people with heart failure by lowering blood pressure and calming the nervous system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also <strong>used for obesity, athletic performance, fatigue, diabetes, and many other conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are Amino Acids?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An amino acid is the <strong>fundamental molecule that serves as the building block for proteins.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>20 different amino acids.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A protein consists of one or more chains of amino acids<\/strong> (called polypeptides) whose sequence is encoded in a gene.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Some amino acids can be synthesized in the body, but others<\/strong> (essential amino acids) cannot and <strong>must be obtained from a person\u2019s diet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are Amino Acids?<\/h3>\n<p>An amino acid is the fundamental molecule that serves as the building block for proteins. There are 20 different amino acids.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-01910-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Taurine supplement makes animals live longer \u2014 what it means for people is unclear<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taurine is a naturally occurring sulfur-containing amino acid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}