The taurine can be used as nutritional therapy in epilepsy, as it has shown a potent and prolonged anti-epileptic activity in a group of epileptic patients not responding to conventional medicines.
has also been shown in animal models that taurine decreases the frequency of epileptic seizures, because of its role in stabilizing the neuronal membrane, which in epilepsy is electrically unstable and so the nerve impulse is triggered rapidly and erratically.
Another theory about the cause of epilepsy suggests that results from the presence of substantial quantities of glutamic acid in the brain, which makes the body more prone to seizures in stressful situations as high fever, trauma, overstimulation, s dietary changes etc, in combination with genetic factors or brain damage.
The act taurine normalizes glutamate levels, however there is controversy about the beneficial effect of this amino acid in some cases of epilepsy, so further research is needed to determine which of the many existing types of epilepsy may respond to supplementation with taurine and the optimal dose for treatment.
Dr. Iraima Acuña. Nutrition Specialist.
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