Japanese scientists reached this conclusion after studying laboratory rats that orally consumed oyster homogenate.
Oyster supplementation increased taurine levels in plasma and skeletal muscle and enhanced AMPK phosphorylation. Oyster consumption also promoted mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle, upregulating MEF2A, SDH, and GLUT4.
The experiment used Crassostrea gigas (giant oysters) grown in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. This oyster species also grows in waters off Europe and Australia.
Research has shown that taurine content in oysters can vary seasonally: from November to May, it gradually increased, then sharply decreased from August to September.
Source: JFF