if your not fructose intolerant, i wouldnt even bother. im still struggling with this jawline cystic bullsh!t.

I'm right now in the middle this thread but have not found nothing about anybody passing blood test for insulin. Does it enough to figure out if I have insulin resistance (age: 24).

i just started taking taurine lets see what happens.

im interested as i read it helps the liver deal with endotoxicity, or breaking down any toxins from bacteria or otherwise, that are leaking into the bloodstream.

Its has also been suggested that these toxins could be the cause of some inflammatory diseases.

how much are you taking? are you taking powder or capsules? I'm gonna buy some tomorrow too. If I can't find it, would substituting it with redbull be a good idea?

I would recommend buying them online if you can't find them. Redbull has other side effects you might want to avoid. I have found them in both Vitamin Shoppe and GNC stores.

I'm taking 3 grams a day but that may be too much for long term, supposedly the body stores around 70 grams total, i feel it is unlikely anyone is completly depleted, yet i dont know how much the body can synthesize in a day nor requires in a day, to really know how much is too much and for how long. if it is made from other amino acids perhaps you could reason that you would not make anymore then the intake of the dependant amino acids are available for it to be made from.

my guess is 1000 mg a day is probably fine or even going to be pissed out, 3 grams may be too much for long term use.

And has anyone tried pumpkin juice for mineral supplement?

http://www.juicingbook.com/vegetables/pumpkin

Looks good enough and I haven't found fructose or glycose in it.

Thanks. Luckily I found a body builders site that sells 100% pure Taurine in power form. I will probably order it tomorrow. Perhaps I should seek for capsules? When I took B5 power it did absolutely nothing...

I don't think that's for muggles.

has taurine done anything for anyone regarding oily skin?, im looking to find a way to cut down on my sebum production if i can

Taurine didn't do anything for me. I was taking 3000 mg a day.

I don't know if it's the fact that I cut out all sugars (including natural) or that I'm taking taurine, but my skin definitely is less inflammatory.

This post has been edited by strato: Sep 2 2009, 01:14 AM

Time for an update - It's still working a treat for me. I did stop it for a while, to see if my problem had been cured, but the acne came back. I have a healthier lifestyle now, so i only need to take 1g of taurine a day (which is safer i guess) to maintain, and occasionally have to increase it if i eat lots of rubbish or had a late night drinking. Every now and again some rubbish is fine, but just not to excess.

All i'm doing is watching my diet, and fitness. So i exercise (currently lifting weights 3 times a week) and try to eat whole foods 90% of the time. Getting plenty of water, and sleep always help. I'm taking a few additional sups, cod liver oil, vitamin B tablet, calcium & zinc tablets and a spoon of flax seed oil. I'm eating plenty of chicken, eggs, cheese, beef, fish, all vegetables, spices, coconut oil, oils, oats and i'm limiting rice, potatoes, nuts/seeds, fruits (mostly just banana, and some berries max once a day), 85% cocoa chocolate, raw fruit & nut bars, while mostly avoiding sugar (which includes milk, bread, pop, alcohol, sweets, processed foods/ready made meals/takeaways). I drink mostly water, and have a couple of coffee's a day max, and usually 1 healthy tea. I do allow the occasional treat and can stick with this pretty well, i save the treats for when i go out.

This works pretty well overall. I'm not cured, i doubt i ever will be - but i'm a million miles away from when i started, and this is still working, years later!!! Why they unsticked this i'll never know!

Are you already in the success compilation thread started by ndRomeo? If not, please add a summary. There's a link in my signature.

Yeah, i'm in there - but it was one of my earlier posts, before the acne struck back. I got to something like 80% clear, much improved and thought it was totally going to clear, but it never did. Turned out i, like most people tried various cures for things and improved a heck of a lot, but never got totally clear - and then realised that it wasn't leaky gut, candida, high gi, carbs, lack of omega 3, lacking vitamins, or any of the other theories on the forum, it simply turned out to be just a combination of poor health, bad food, bad habits & lifestyle and a build up of toxins/pollutants.

Now, I could eat an almost zero sugar diet and be totally clear with no supplements, like the paleo's, but it's a fairly hard and expensive lifestyle for the majority of us to follow, and i'm not convinced it's safe long-term, the build up of dixons and pcb's is going to be pretty bad, grass fed organic or not, thanks to the polluted world we live in. So i just found a happy balance, i try to eat healthy in proportion without overeating (equal fat/carbs/protein where possible), but am not worried about the odd pizza or burger or pint of cider - as long as i keep doing what i'm doing 90% of the time all is good!

I just drop in now and then to bring taurine back to the top of the forum and report it's still working and i haven't died or anything, as it seems to me a lot of people who find success never come back and tell the new members how they found a cure and show some support!