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In 2023, a major paper published in Science demonstrated that taurine supplementation extended the median lifespan of mice by ten to twelve percent and significantly improved healthspan metrics in rhesus macaques (see [1]). Mechanistically, circulating taurine levels drop by about eighty percent over a typical human lifespan. When we see a conserved metabolic decline across mammalian species, it immediately catches my attention as a potential engineering target for aging. However, we must be absolutely ruthless about our hierarchy of evidence. Mouse lifespan data is not human lifespan data. Mice have radically different metabolic clearance rates and telomere biology, so a lifespan finding in rodents is merely a mechanistic hypothesis for humans until proven otherwise.