L-Taurine Amino Acid 1000 mg, 60 Vegan Capsules

What L-Taurine Is

Taurine is a sulfur-containing amino acid that your body makes from cysteine and methionine and also gets from meat, seafood and dairy. Remedy's L-Taurine holds 1000 mg per vegan capsule, with 60 capsules per bottle. It contains taurine alone: no caffeine, no sugar and no other active ingredient.

Taurine is unusual among amino acids. It carries a sulfonate group instead of a carboxyl group, and it is 1 of the few amino acids never built into proteins.[1]Taurine: a very essential amino acid — Molecular Vision (2012) View source

• 1000 mg per capsule: The amount in a typical 250 mL energy drink.
• 60 capsules: 2 months at 1 capsule a day.
• Single ingredient: Taurine, with 0 mg caffeine.
• Vegan capsule: No animal-derived capsule shell.

The full evidence map is in our guide to what taurine is.

Supplement Facts

Serving size: 1 Vegan Capsule. Servings per container: 60.

† Daily Value not established.

Other ingredients: Cellulose, glycerin, water (vegan capsule).

Directions: One capsule daily.

Made in the USA.

Taurine Without the Energy Drink

Most people meet taurine on an energy drink can. A typical 250 mL can holds about 80 mg of caffeine and 1000 mg of taurine, the same taurine as 1 of these capsules.[2]Caffeinated energy drinks in the Canadian context: health risk assessment with a focus on cardiovascular effects — Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism (2021) View source Trials that tested the ingredients separately found the alertness and the blood pressure rise came from caffeine, not taurine.[3]Energy Drinks Induce Acute Cardiovascular and Metabolic Changes Pointing to Potential Risks for Young Adults — Journal of Nutrition (2019) View source

So this capsule will not wake you up the way a can does, because taurine is not a stimulant. The full comparison is in taurine in energy drinks.

What the Evidence Actually Shows

Rather than print a benefits list, we would rather print the shape of the research. These counts came off PubMed on 2026-10-08 and anyone can rerun them.

Taurine is heavily researched, but most records describe animals or lab work. Of 85 records on taurine and lifespan, 2 are tagged as trials, and neither tested whether taurine lengthens human life.

Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar

This is where the human trials are. The effects are real and modest, measured in single-digit units.

• Blood pressure: 34 randomized trials pooled in 2026 found systolic down 4.38 mmHg and diastolic down 2.54 mmHg.[4]Effects of Oral Taurine Supplementation on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials — Nutrition Reviews (2026) View source
• Best single trial: 1.6 g a day for 12 weeks in 120 people with prehypertension; clinic systolic fell 7.2 mmHg against 2.6 on placebo.[5]Taurine Supplementation Lowers Blood Pressure and Improves Vascular Function in Prehypertension — Hypertension (2016) View source
• Blood sugar: Fasting glucose fell 5.90 mg/dL in the same pooling, but 1.5 g a day for 8 weeks did not change insulin in at-risk men.[6]Effect of taurine treatment on insulin secretion and action in overweight men with a genetic predisposition for type II diabetes — European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2004) View source
• Dose in trials: 1.5 to 3.0 g a day looked most effective, which is 1.5 to 3 capsules.

We make no claim that this product treats high blood pressure or diabetes. Every trial is set out in taurine for blood pressure and blood sugar.

The Ageing Study, Stated Precisely

In 2023 a Science paper reported that taurine raised median lifespan in mice by 10 to 12%, at 1000 mg/kg a day started in middle age. Monkeys took it for 6 months and showed better health markers, but their lifespan was not measured. The human data were associations in blood samples.[7]Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging — Science (2023) View source

• Mouse dose for a person: About 4.9 g a day at 60 kg, by the FDA body-surface conversion.
• 2025 follow-up: In 3 human cohorts, blood taurine rose or held steady with age.[8]Is taurine an aging biomarker? — Science (2025) View source
• Human lifespan trials: None.

We do not sell this capsule as an anti-ageing product. The study is unpacked in what the taurine ageing study showed.

Exercise

Taurine is common in pre-workouts. The pooled trials show a small endurance benefit at 1 to 6 g, with no clear dose-response, and the largest 2025 analysis rated its certainty low to very low.[9]Does One Shot Work? The Acute Impact of a Single Taurine Dose on Exercise Performance — Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports (2025) View source

• Timing used: 1 to 3 hours before exercise.
• Muscle size: No trial we found shows an effect.
• With caffeine: At energy drink doses, neither improved fitness tests in 1 trial.

The details are in taurine for exercise performance.

Taurine or L-Taurine, and Where It Comes From

Taurine was named after ox bile, Bos taurus, where it was first isolated in 1827. It is not made from bulls. Supplement taurine is generally produced by chemical synthesis.[10]Engineering a hybrid chemical-biological system for efficient de novo taurine production — Bioresource Technology (2026) View source

• Taurine vs L-taurine: The same molecule; taurine has 0 stereocenters, so no D form exists.
• In food: Meat, seafood and dairy; not detected in 48 plant foods tested.
• Vegan diets: Supply essentially 0 taurine, though the body still makes it.

More on the name, the label and food sources is in taurine vs L-taurine and where it comes from.

Safety and Who Should Be Careful

Taurine has one of the cleaner safety records among supplements. A formal risk assessment found strong evidence of safety up to 3 g a day, the observed safe level, and pooled trials of 0.5 to 6 g a day found no significant adverse effects against placebo.[11]Risk assessment for the amino acids taurine, L-glutamine and L-arginine — Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (2008) View source

The full list, and the reasons behind each line, is in taurine side effects and safe dosage.

How to Take It

There is no official daily requirement for taurine, because the body makes it. A typical diet supplies about 40 to 400 mg a day.

• Amount: 1 capsule daily, which is 1000 mg.
• Timing: 0 trials we found compared morning and evening, so take it when you will remember.
• Before exercise: Trials gave taurine 1 to 3 hours ahead.
• Higher amounts: Trial doses of 1.5 to 3 g are a step to discuss with a clinician.

Keep your total, including energy drinks, at or under the 3 g observed safe level unless a clinician advises otherwise.

Why Choose Remedy's L-Taurine

No trial makes one taurine capsule better than another, since the molecule is identical. The honest differentiators are what is in the bottle and what the page is willing to say.

• Taurine alone: 1000 mg, with no caffeine, sugar or stimulant blend.
• A countable dose: 1 capsule equals the taurine in 1 typical can.
• Vegan capsule: 60 per bottle.
• No anti-ageing claim: Because the lifespan evidence is in mice and worms.

What we will not say matters as much as what we will, and on this page that means no disease claim of any kind.

Frequently Asked Questions

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