Hidden Key to Anxiety, The Eyes and Taurine
l-Taurine is one of the first anti-anxiety amino acids that humans are exposed to since it comes to them in mother's milk. It's interesting that cow's milk doesn't have l-Taurine, maybe cows don't have that much to be anxious about. It's funny though because the word Taurine comes from Taurus, the Bull, because it was first isolated in bull bile two hundred years ago.
Combining l-Taurine with the relaxing mineral Magnesium makes a wonderful anti-anxiety solution, the trick is to take enough of it. How much? That's up to your physiology! Here's the trick, if you take the combination and get good results, but don't feel like you are all the way there, double the amount of the l-Taurine. You can increase the amount of the Magnesium more cautiously, because the sign of excessive Magnesium is loose bowels.
When you are low on l-Taurine, you have probably been lacking in for a while, it may take weeks of supplementation until your reserves are filled up again. Without enough Magnesium you are going to feel tight and stressed and without sufficient l-Taurine you will feel anxious.
There is another sign of a lack of l-Taurine that may offer a clue about where some cases of anxiety arise, eye issues. Vision, especially the eyeball, is very dependent on sufficient amounts of this amino acid. So, if you are doing work or activities that are very vision intensive, lots of driving in bright sunlight, excessively detailed work on the computer or hand held graphics, even watching too much television, you are tapping into those l-Taurine reserves. If you are getting lots of floaters, or flashing those are signs.
Modern society is very vision dependent compared to the other senses. In the past the senses of smell, taste, touch and hearing were more important, but considering the advance of television, computers and mobile phones, much of what we perceive and even communicate is via sight now. How many people text or email now instead of calling on the phone, or even walking to a person's home, smelling their flowers, giving them a hug, tasting their home made jam, and having a conversation in person?
The natural sources for l-Taurine are primarily meat and fish, and many people's diets are deficient in those, instead depending on grains, beans and dairy. We're not saying that this Vision/ l-Taurine connection is the only source of anxiety, but if you find yourself regularly stressing your vision, and you have that rising feeling of anxiety in your chest, maybe supplementing with l-Taurine and Magnesium can help you with that.
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