Taurine and Improved Exercise Performance

• Does One Shot Work? The Acute Impact of a Single Taurine Dose on Exercise Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review.

  • 2025-08-25
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 308
  • Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports 35(9)
  • • Hengzhi Deng
    • Tianyu Song
    • Mingyue Yin
    • Kai Xu
    • Yuming Zhong
    • Ping Liu
    • Shengze Sun
    • Mohamed Nashrudin Bin Naharudin
    • Ashril Yusof
    • Xiaohan Fan

  • PubMed: 40852891
  • DOI: 10.1111/sms.70123

  6 Insights on

  • Improved Exercise Performance

  • High evidence

  acute taurine ingestion may be associated with small-to-moderate improvements in overall performance (g = 0.25, 95% CI [0.10, 0.39])

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  single dose in the 1–6 g range