![]() ![]() Whereas in our language, the evidence may be very reliable or shaky, very true and believable or something that can be misleading. So if something is based on evidence, it has to be correct. The origin of the word comes probably from the legal proceedings where people presented pieces of facts either for or against specific thoughts, whereas in a lot of other languages, the evidence is perceived as by itself representing the truth. Number one, everything is evidence based, depending on how reliable this evidence is and how much you can trust it, how confident you are that a given piece of evidence presents the truth, so to speak.īecause, interestingly, the concept of evidence is very difficult to translate into non-English languages. ![]() I wanted to ask you, Roman, is this really evidence based? Should I be taking this as fact and change my behaviors? But again, I didn’t necessarily trust the reporting, but then to see that it was in Science… I mean, that’s how we got started. So a lot of frat boys, and people that are staying up late, and people who want to exercise harder, myself included, you know… I was sort of already on this rhythm of having a sugar-free energy drink around 3:00 PM every day and now I feel like I’m doing something great for myself. Why it was included, I’m not sure, but it was advertised. And that seems to almost have been prophetic on their part. There are energy drinks-we probably shouldn’t name them-but many of the energy drinks have this supplement in them. So to read this taurine finding that just appeared-I don’t know if it was in The New York Times or something-where I just saw taurine as a driver of aging, and then finding out it was a Science article, I was curious. He looks somewhat impressive as a physical specimen now, but I wonder how much of what he’s doing is evidence based. He’s doing everything from red light therapy to PPL and taking hundreds of supplements every morning and starving himself. His name is Bryan Johnson, and he’s trying to reverse aging. They’re calling it the Blueprint Protocol. What was your take when you’ve seen this taurine article?īrady Wood: Well, Roman, I guess for me it was sort of interesting because I’m aware it’s in energy drinks, for example, and I’m also someone who is carefully watching news on anti-aging, health, and male hormones.įor example, there’s a tech entrepreneur who’s now running experiments, and they’re well documented on YouTube. So I’m clearly curious about some of them and you had an idea of discussing them in public. I’ve been involved in the movement called EBM for the last 2 or 3 decades, and now we are talking about not yet quite evidence-based interventions. And that may avoiding a lot of trouble to a lot of people.įor introduction, Roman Jaeschke, I’m a physician-critical care physician-working in the Department of Medicine and a department that used to be called Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and now is called Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. ![]() For some of us maybe a good idea would be to tape the mouth when not sleeping. Roman Jaeschke, MD, PhD: Well, I like the idea of taping the mouth when sleeping. Anything you wanted to say on that, Roman? ![]() I think there’s a great opportunity for McMaster, launching from its history as the home of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to comment on these articles that are almost reported to the general public as fact. Another one of these was this issue of taurine and how it relates to aging based on a study that was in Science, a very reputable journal. We see things like this all the time in the news. We see articles all the time, like-maybe another episode will be about this taping your mouth shut while sleeping yields better outcomes for cognitive function and health. And this topic of things coming up in the popular media was something we were talking about. Roman, I’ll just kick it off by saying that I’m a member of the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, but I’m a nonclinician advisor, and you and I have been working together on the McMaster Textbook. We’re subtitling this one “Not Quite Evidence Based.” So, Roman, I suppose you and I should introduce ourselves and talk about how we landed here, and then we’ll go into the topic, which is taurine and its relationship to aging. īrady Wood, MA, MCM: Hi, my name is Brady Wood and welcome to another episode of McMaster Perspective. What Is Taurine And Why Is It In Energy Drinks? Delish. Taurine is an ingredient in energy drinks. Singh P, Gollapalli K, Mangiola S, et al. ![]()
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