Endurance
Taurine
Taurine is an amino sulfonic acid with moderate evidence for small endurance benefits across acute doses.
How it counts: Counts toward the grade
One of the core ingredients the Dose score (and so the grade) is built on. A product earns credit for it up to the clinical dose.
- Clinical dose
- 1,000–6,000 mg
- Safety ceiling
- —
- Evidence
- moderate
- Category
- Endurance
Evidence summary
Research confidence: medium
1-6 g single acute doses (or up to 2 weeks chronic) produced similar improvements in endurance performance (Hedges' g=0.40); the meta-analysis found no dose-response relationship within this range, so effMin is set at the lowest effective dose tested (1 g) and effMax at the highest (6 g).
Research sources
Dosed at or above clinical in
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