Could taurine be key to anti-ageing?

Taurine is an added ingredient in energy drinks, but is also found naturally in beef, chicken, milk and pork. — dpa

Delaying old age might be a pipedream – more the stuff of airport novels and Celtic tales – but that has not deterred people from trying to find ways to stall or hide the ineluctable.

After all, the global anti-ageing market, taking in medicines, creams and other such would-be elixirs, was worth US$37 billion (RM170.77 billion) in 2021, according to market research company Euromonitor.