taurine (elite) vs ashwagandha (trash)
Yeahā¦ Taurine is light years superior than Ashwagandha.
Ashwagandha is ridiculously overrated in my opinion.
When you take Taurine, youāre optimizing your nutrition which is one of the most fundamental pillars for overall health and well-being.
Ashwagandha has a long history. Itās well known in traditional Ayurvedic medicine and has been used for thousands of years.
Ashwagandha is nothing more than a plant based herb that helps you adapt to stress.
Itās not nutrition based, itās an adaptogen.
Most of the benefits of Ashwagandha are indirectly correlated to its ability to reduce stress.
When you go down the Ashwagandha rabbit hole, what youāll find is that nearly all of the herbās benefits are indirectly related to its ability to reduce stress.
Ashwagandha benefits: fatigue, low energy, immune support, reproductive health, and cognitive function.
When you have high stress and an inability to regulate it, you will experience fatigue, low energy, weak immune system (this is extremely well known), low libido and weaker cognitive abilities.
Most average and unfortunately, non average people have chronic or excessive stress which is affecting a ton of their physiological systems. Ashwagandha basically reduces and balances their stress and then they experience a ton of ābenefitsā.
Any type of androgenic ābenefitā, such as higher testosterone or etc, all has to do with lower cortisol and everyone knows that cortisol is a stress hormone that can drastically lower testosterone.
As you can see, Ashwagandhaās benefits are merely stress-related and have absolutely nothing to do with nutrition, inner vitality and real health - in the sense of your direct tissues, cells, etc.
Taurine on the other hand is an endogenous compound, meaning itās naturally present in the body and the body tightly regulates its levels. Itās an amino acid that gets synthesized in your body. Itās important for essential roles in your body like osmoregulation and antioxidant function. If you have excess Taurine, your body will naturally excrete the excess through your urine. Itās very difficult to get Taurine toxicity because your natural body processes will just balance you out.
When you take Taurine, you are supporting and enhancing the functions that Taurine performs in the body. This includes all of the physiological processes that rely on Taurine. Even the role Taurine plays in balancing of water and electrolytes within cells and tissues, is super important for proper hydration and cellular function.
Now fast forward a thousand years.
The Ayurvedics talk about the Ashwagandha herb that has all of these ābenefitsā (less stress).
What do their diets look like? Iāll tell you right now, theyāre not getting elite level nutrition or optimization. Theyāre just trying to survive, lmao.
If you time traveled a thousand years ago and brought a Taurine supplement to those Indiansā¦ they would not think that its from this planet. They would call it āpowder (or pill) of the godsā.
Taurine = the realm of nutrition, health and vitality.
Ashwagandha = neat little plant/herb that reduces your stress
Completelyā¦ completely different level and scope and yetā¦ nobody is taking Taurine lol.
Everyone just follows trends, black seed oil, ashwagandhas, etc because theyāre all sheep.
Hereās the really big kicker. You donāt need to take a herb that reduces stress when you have proper nutrition and vitality from the inside out.
The similar benefiits youāre experiencing with Taurine compared to Ashwagandha in relation to stressā¦ is coming from the actual nutritional elements of Taurine improving your health and direct body processes. Thatās 1 aspect (there are hundreds) of Taurine and its on the level of the entire aspect of Ashwagandha.
Any effect you experience from Taurine is optimization, meaning youāre getting closer to how youāre supposed to be when nutritionally optimized. Taurine is inside you already and you canāt have excess. That means whatever effect itās having on you is from optimization of it inside your body and a strengthening of the roles it plays.
