Paul Saladino· MD
Improvements in mental Clarity improvements in muscle explosive performance improvements in Muscle Recovery improvements and all sorts of things have been shown with creatine
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Improvements in mental Clarity improvements in muscle explosive performance improvements in Muscle Recovery improvements and all sorts of things have been shown with creatine
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I've been recommending this to patients for 6 months now. The big shift is patients actually do it because the explanation is concrete.
Same in nutrition counseling. The before/after framing helps.
Tracking with a CGM on top of this for 3 months. Variability dropped quickly and stayed dropped.
Worth noting the 0.71 SMD in the Kreider meta is in trained athletes. Effect in untrained adults runs closer to 0.3 — still meaningful, but the panel should reflect that gradient.
Good catch. Could the brief surface the training-status interaction inline?
Creatine has so many benefits when it comes to muscle strength recovery explosivity and even mental clarity, especially when you're sleep deprived, that if you're not taking 5 to 10 grams of creatine, you're leaving a lot on the table.
Creatine affordable, super wellstied benefits for mood, benefits for muscle performance, recovery explosivity mental performance, sleep performance, potentially hormonal performance improvements. So many benefits to creatine.
What if I told you there was a simple amino acid derived compound that was very inexpensive, extremely safe, that could totally enhance your performance in the gym that could improve muscle strength, recovery, explosivity in the gym with a small dose every day, and could also potentially improve your sleep, your mental performance, your memory, and even your bone density.
5 g of creatine monohydrate daily improves muscle strength and lean mass in healthy adults at standard training loads.
Creatine improves cognitive performance, especially under sleep deprivation and high cognitive load.
Creatine improves cardiovascular health markers and reduces all-cause mortality risk.
Creatine supports bone-mineral density in post-menopausal women when paired with resistance training.
Women need higher creatine doses (8–10 g/day) than men to reach the same intramuscular saturation.