INS and type 1 diabetes mellitus: Following this, Elizarova and Nedosugova evaluated the effects of taurine on a small subset of patients with type 1 diabetes (n=10), who had already been treated with insulin (13); in this case, taurine was administered in doses of 0.5 g per day for 30 days and was shown to improve the symptoms of type 1 diabetes, as demonstrated by an increase in carbohydrate metabolism and a decline in triglyceride content (13).