A new study from Columbia University has found that taurina, a type of amino acid known mostly as an ingredient in energy drinks, extended the life of worms, mice and monkeys. 


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Good2Know: Study Says Taurine Could Be 'Elixir of Life' 

Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to Cheddar News. I'm Baker at a time for our good to know headlines this morning. This is an interesting one. Scientists discovered that tour which is an amino acid found in sports and energy drinks as well as meat, dairy and fish may lead to longer life. That's according to a new study published yesterday in the journal science, scientists fed tour to mice, monkeys and worms and found mice who ate the amino acid lived 12% longer on average than mice who did not take taurine monkeys who consume the amino acid were leaner, had better blood sugar levels and had less liver damage and a younger looking immune system and gain less weight. This is all according to the study since the study was performed on animals. It's still unclear whether it would have the same effects on humans. And a lot of health experts say this is very preliminary. We have not tested this on humans, but they did say that exercise typically has the same. Yes, that they're seeing. I mean, the, the, the the the scientists are basically saying, don't run to your health market and go stock up on to, even though this is really significantly huge, they, they've been looking into this for over 10 years. Obviously, there's a massive difference between humans, mice and monkeys. And so which is why they say more preliminary data needs to be done, especially on humans. But if this is true, this could be a game change thing. But a lot of people get to in a lot of their diet anyway, from meats, food clams, all of that stuff anyway. So if you're not getting regular levels of that already in your food, maybe potentially down the road, maybe you add a supplement to sort of top it off. So that way you're back to sort of your healthy younger levels. But still more research has to be done. But either way potentially could be a big deal. Don't run to your right. Do not run to your vitamin store just yet. Meanwhile, a new study published just this week in the journal, Jama raises some questions about how artificial intelligence tools like chat GP T are responding to serious inquiries by users. The study found that chat GP T only provided critical resources like the 1 800 lifeline number. About 22% of the time when users needed help with medical emergencies and mental health issues. The A the A I chatbot provided evidence based answers to questions instead of providing referrals to resources. The researchers are calling on regulators and public experts to join forces and making more resources available for people in crisis who need them again. This is why we have the wild West of artificial intelligence because there's, this is still such an early stage here. But this is also the difference between humans and artificial intelligence. You're not going to be getting a lot of the emotional and empathetic and, and, and sort of things that you would need from, say a therapist, somebody that's very important to sort of give you the right referrals here. You shouldn't be going to chat GP T for those things anyway. But down the road, these are the things that the software has to sort of adapt to. And that's what a lot of these experts are saying. They're saying chat GP T is in such so much of the early stages that now is the time to start incorporating better resources. There are questions, some of them were very sad. Some of them were simple. Like how do I quit smoking? How do I quit drinking? And they would chat GP T would give alcohols anonymous or resources like that. But then there were questions, I wanna kill myself. What do I do? And chat GP T would just give them a phone number, which to your point is a lot different than a human actually trying to walk you through this problem, right? And all the more reason why we've seen a lot of uh tech uh people in the tech industry say Washington needs to put a lot of these guard rails up for situations like this as well. True coming up middle income home buyers are experiencing the most severe housing shortage compared to other income brackets. That story along with your need to know headlines and wake up with chatter returns. Don't go anywhere.