As a follow up to a recent post on high intensity training I forgot to add one important point i have been working on with my sports nutritionist - supplements.
Like all the well informed souls here who no doubt are regularly taking their magnesium glycinate, choline/inositol, B complex and high strength D3/K7, I have found one and only one supplement that has become an invaluable support to managing the stress/cortisol fall out of high intensity training loads- that is taurine.
As context I have over the past 30-40 years taken pretty much every supplement known to man, as I have always enjoyed experimenting to find an edge and reached a point that pretty much all of them failed to deliver any observable effect over time - so stopped taking any of them bar the abov e. I was intrigued by some research about how taurine allowed athletes to tolerate high intensity training far more effectively than a placebo primarily via improved cardio heart response.
So when I take taurine consistently over time I notice my lungs can open and expand more easily (a bit like taking a puff of the blue inhaler if you have asthma) and I can operate with a load more comfort at high intensity as my heart/breathing manages the stress loads far better.
It has a load of other benefits if you study the research, but I only bought it for the training improvements.
If there are any other supplements that have valid research do let me know, but for now it works brilliantly, and is incredibly cheap to boot.
Not sure how many folks here jump up and down about it, but if this is a repeat message then be pleased that someone else is validating the approach.
Clearly, if you are not into the hard training loads the need for taurine may have less value - more than happy to accept that of course and each person's experience is unique.
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I found a really good value one that I have used consistently. No idea if it is any better than any other though so suggest you have a quick scan around. "UK health house 900mg Taurine" - very cheap by my book anyway.
High Daniel I pretty much agree with everything you say- and I think I might be able to educate about a supplement you do not know about.
Firstly I agree -and so do most sources- that magnesium is number one.You need it for bones and to prevent or reverse arthritis.Most think it's calcium they need but in general we get plenty.
Taurine is nothing short of a miracle.We so make it ourselves but not enough, it is the active ingredient in red bull.Research points to 25% longevity benefit .
Choline is good for your brain.If you are on the alzheimer's risk list it is recommended.
The only significant ones you didn't mention was copper.I was aneamic and this works better than iron, and cod liver oil.
But I have a supplement that is far more effective than these.It's anti-inflammatory, vasco- dilatory, favours neurogenesis, and cures an array of conditions outright.
One of the best things about it is that often we take supplements to replace the stuff we lose via natural process ( which can get out of kilter as we age), and much of these losses are in the body's buffering system .This helps with the buffering ( a natural process that you are doing constantly).
But it gets even better.This supplement makes you lose significant weight (assuming you are overweight, you may not be), it turbo charges your run times, and drops your resting metabolism and heart rate.
I'm talking about carbon dioxide .Increasing your co2 tolerance has all these benefits and more.Buteyko method, oxygen advantage , yoga, free diving, swim and run training.
101% agree with you here - I had bad asthma when younger and found this method invaluable to avoid needing steroids....I have kept it up ever since....
interesting info, what dose do you normally take as I am active 6 days a week but find my stress response is high. Would like to try this to see if any benefit.
I take Taurine I love it, it is so good for the lungs. It helps people with COPD too. It is also needed to make good bile from the liver to the gallbladder our energy systems like good bile flow.
Wjhat a timely post as I was going to ask, if any one uses taurine for sleep. I am fine w/exercise recovery - I'm in early part of 7th decade (of life!),am active, & still swim 1mil 3x/wk. Sleep, however..... Read where it helps calm the neurotransmitters interacting w/GABA receptors. My last lab results (10/25)did show low B12 (368 (180-914)), D3 (42.7 (30-101)), Ferritin (27.9 (11-306.8)). Any of these could be a culprit, but I have had ongoing issues w/sleep ever since I switched from Nature-throid to NP thyroid meds. Anyone have positive results taking taurine for sleep?
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