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Creatine.
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Once the supplement of choice for bodybuilders and elite athletes, it's now officially broken out of the gym and hit the mainstream.
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But like many supplements, it's hard to get to the bottom of whether it actually does what it says on the tin.
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So we're here to help.
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Today, does creatine live up to the hype?
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From The Guardian, I'm Madeleine Finlay and this is Science Weekly.
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Ian I've heard so many claims about creatine
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and I know a lot of people taking it as well
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and doing the job
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that we do it's really hard not to be sceptical of any kind of supplement at all
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so I want you to tell me is creatine worth bothering with
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but first I guess I need to know what it is?
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Sure.
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So creatine is a naturally occurring compound, okay?
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I mean, it's made from amino acids, three different types of amino acid, glycine, arginine and methionine.
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And people might think of amino acids as the building blocks of proteins.
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They are the building blocks of proteins, but creatine itself isn't a protein.
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It's too small to be a protein, but it's made out of amino acids.
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What's it doing in our bodies?
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What do we need it for?
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Creatines really sort of comes into its own in your body when you're doing sort of high intensity activity.
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But let me give you some background first of the sort of what's going on inside cells
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when they're doing this and then we'll see how creatine slots in.
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So scientists talk about a sort of an energy currency in cells
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and that energy currency is a compound called adenosine triphosphate, ATP.
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And as the name suggests, adenosine triphosphate has three phosphate groups attached to each molecule.
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When a cell wants some energy, it can split off one of those phosphate groups and
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that releases a bit of energy that the cell can put to good work.
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So that can be used to contract muscles, say.
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and it leaves you with ADP, adenosine diphosphate, okay, because you've lost one, you go try to die.
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Now, when you're doing a lot of intense exercise, you can burn through your ATP very quickly.
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You can do this in seconds.
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So where does creatine come in?
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Well, creatine in your cells, it binds to phosphate.
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It forms a compound called phosphocreatine, and in fact, that's how most creatine is stored in your in your cells
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and what phosphocreatine can do is it's really good at donating
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the phosphate back to adp to rebuild it to atp
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so it's almost like a recharges the adenosine triphosphate
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so you've used it goes down to adp phosphocreatine comes in
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gives it the phosphate back back to atp you can then use it again to do things
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so that is how creatine is is working
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and it's enabling the cell to kind of replenish the ATP when it's burning through it really quickly.
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Okay, so when you're doing high intensity exercise in particular, creatine has this role where it can help the cells release more energy for longer.
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But how do we actually make creatine in our bodies?
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We make some of our creatine in our pancreas, liver and kidney, okay?
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And we make probably one to two grams.
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And a lot of that goes to your sort of skeletal muscles, and a little bit goes to your brain, your heart, and some other tissues.
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So we're making, probably a lot of us anyway, we'll be making about half of our creatine.
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The rest you're gonna get from your diet.
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Now, it depends sort of what you eat, obviously.
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Foods like red meat and fish are rich in creatine
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because it's in the muscles and What's good about creatine is because it's a small molecule it
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Can kind of get absorbed straight into your system It doesn't
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get broken down as it goes through into your into your bloodstream and so on obviously if you're vegan or vegetarian
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They tend to have lower creatine levels in their cells because because plants don't have creatine in them,
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but they can eat foods which will have the three amino acids in with which to build creatine in their bodies.
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And so if you're eating like a lot of nuts and legumes, you're going to get the amino acids you're going to need to build creatine in your body.
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And if you're vegetarian, dairy foods and eggs as well are going to help.
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Right, Ian.
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So we know that creatine has this useful role in our bodies.
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We can make it through the foods that we eat.
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So how well studied is it as a supplement?
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Creatine's got a really long history.
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It was discovered by a French scientist in 1832.
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And, you know, really since then, it has become one of the most studied supplements out there,
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often in the context of sort of building muscle in training.
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When you do a quick search under creatine, you'll find thousands of research papers looking at creatine and what it does and what it doesn't do.
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When you look at the effects specifically on women, actually, it's not as impressive.
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I mean, you'll find maybe only a few hundred papers.
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So the research is definitely skewed and there's less known about the actual specific effects in women.
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When you hear that there are thousands of papers, it sounds very impressive.
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But then the question is, when you go and look at those papers,
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how many of them are going to be those high quality gold standard research studies that you always look for.
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And one of the big problems in any kind of supplement research is you go to the paper, you look at the affiliations and the declarations and you see,
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ah, okay, this has actually been paid for by a company that makes the supplement.
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And of course, you understand why that is.
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But then at the same time, it's a big pinch of salt on any kind of result that you see.
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So look, I think it's fair to say I'm still a bit of a sceptic on this
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but give me the big picture on the evidence for supplementing creatine.
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Totally I mean whenever you're looking at research and particularly
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when you're looking at research on supplements you want to check whether
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that research has been conducted by a company
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that happens to sell supplements okay absolute conflict of interest 101
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that you want to check out but you know having said
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that the evidence that you know creatine supplementation can give you this sort of training boost does seem to be pretty reliable.
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There seems to be as good as a consensus that that is happening and it all makes a lot of sense.
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I think the question then becomes, okay, well, how big a deal is that, right?
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And what's interesting here is if you think about how much creatine does a particular person store in their muscle cells,
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like just from the diet they have already and so on.
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And then you think about how much could they potentially store in those cells.
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And that gap is quite interesting.
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So, you know, most people would be able to store more creatine if they were having supplementation.
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And you'd imagine they would get some effect then if they needed this intense energy sort of, you know, for doing intense exercise.
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But we're all different. And so
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that is where it becomes a bit tricky as to knowing how much of an effect an individual is going to experience.
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And this is something I spoke to Justin Roberts about, and he's a professor of nutritional physiology at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
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If you're doing high intensity activities, going to the gym and you're doing every day or every other day where there's a high demand on the body,
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that's where creatine probably has a role to play.
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But also when you look at the amount of physical work that can be performed,
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what you often see is a faster rate of recovery between exercises, meaning chances are you're able to do more.
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So if you look at some of the more recent studies, particularly in older people, the kind of driving factor
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that seems to be in play is that the training volume increases because they're able to do more.
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Okay, so supplementing with creatine, there is this possibility
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that you can get this benefit of being able to train a little bit harder or maybe a little bit longer.
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Is that why it's associated with gaining muscle? that's right
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but i spoke to justin about this and he really wanted to make clear
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that you know just taking the creatine alone is not going
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to affect your muscle mass people might think well creatine equals
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muscle mass it it doesn't there are hypothesized theories around whether creatine may relate to
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or trigger muscle growth but fundamentally it comes back to the training
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if you're not physically undertaking some sort of training that's going to stimulate the muscle like resistance training, then creatine is unlikely going to have a profound effect.
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But beyond the sort of the big guns, there's also more limited evidence for benefits in other areas.
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There are some emerging studies that have shown that you can potentially, with high amounts of creatine,
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increase creatine in the brain because it's a highly active tissue in terms of energy demand.
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And so there have been a few studies that suggest that in a sleep deprived state, and that's a key factor,
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that you might actually be able to have better mental
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or cognitive functioning in a sleep deprived state with high amounts of creatine.
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creatine's also been used in the skincare industry for about 20 years
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and the claim there is that it helps with the production of collagen
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and we actually have a podcast coming up on on collagen specifically
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but the research on creatine and effects on collagen looks pretty shaky to me
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and there's just so much that we still don't understand okay ian
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if somebody does want to start taking creatine what's the best way to do
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that how should they do it well the way it's done in a lot of the studies
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when they're looking for an impact from from taking it
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when people are training is they they do a kind of
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a loading phase at the beginning where you take a quite
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high dose of creatine for a few days to sort of really sort of push your levels up
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and then you drop down to a sort of a maintenance dose
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but you know you don't have to do it
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that way you can take a lower dose
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and maybe it it will take a bit longer to have any sort of real effects.
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One thing people might get confused about when they're looking at creatine is it just comes in so many different forms, right?
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I mean, first of all, you know, there are powders, there are gummies, there are drinks, but also there are different names.
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I mean, you can have like creatine hydrochloride, you can have creatine ethyl ester.
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Most of the research has been done on a form called creatine monohydrate.
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But, you know, I think
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these all are making sort of slightly different claims about how well they're absorbed
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and things like that and again this is something else i spoke to justin about
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when i first got into nutrition creatine was available in powder form only
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when i first got it uh years ago
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and as time's gone on kind of the the concept of creatine has changed from powders into tablets into gummies
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and even skin patches
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the first thing i would say is where's the science on a lot of these
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and if you look at the literature probably the overwhelming amount of science has been done on creatine monohydrate
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which is highly absorbed it's like 95 to 99 absorbed
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so it's highly absorbed and it's generally stable in a fairly solid form like a powder
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so when i see claims
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that uh you know another type of creatine is suddenly miraculously
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a lot better a lot better than creatine monohydrate i'm very skeptical
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because it's already highly absorbed are there any risks or side effects from taking creatine
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The evidence so far suggests that creatine at the doses people take it at when they're doing supplementation is actually pretty safe.
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I mean, certainly, you know, in people who are who are healthy.
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There are some case reports in sort of a bit of
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the older literature of people with existing kidney problems having some side effects.
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But apart from that, really, the only thing I've seen is that some people can get like bloating from from taking it.
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And I spoke again to Justin on that.
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For some people, how they take creatine can lead to things like bloating and water retention.
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So if you're taking high amounts of creatine or you're taking it with carbohydrates, for example, in a sports drink,
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then your body will hold on to some of the water actually because of the creatine retains a bit more water.
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And for some people, they get a little bit more gut bloating and a little bit more water retention.
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so Ian I kind of can't believe that I'm saying this
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because always on Science Weekly we just recommend healthy diets
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and more beans and nuts but it looks like there is something in creatine
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so for somebody who is not an elite athlete who is
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just doing a normal amount of exercise going down to the
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gym like the rest of us is it worth going back to that original question taking creatine You know, it's not necessarily cheap to get the supplements.
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So is it going to help them do one extra rep or 10?
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So that's like, you know, an active area of research is to does creating supplementation really help people who aren't going to the gym
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and are just sort of carrying on with their lives as normal, right?
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And I think that's going to be an interesting one to watch.
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But for the moment, certainly the evidence is way in favour of people who are needing
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that burst of energy and doing it in part of their training and getting the health benefits and, you know, the strength benefits that come from the training.
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So that seems to be where the evidence is at the moment.
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I think it's going to be really interesting to see, though, you know, does it help older people who are losing muscle mass?
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Would it help slow that?
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Would it help other people who are having muscle problems or what have you?
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And I think that, again, is where we need to see more research.
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But yeah, I think for the moment, definitely if you're doing the exercise and you need to be sort of want to be pushing yourself more in your exercise.
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But I think as a sort of something for the general sort of person who isn't doing any of that, I don't think the evidence is really there yet.
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So depends on the circumstance.
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Another nuanced conclusion from Science Weekly.
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Ian, thank you very much.
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Thank you.
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And that's it from us today.
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Don't forget to hit subscribe.
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And if you take creatine as a supplement, let us know if you think it's made a difference to you.
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We'll be back with another episode later this week.
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See you then.
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