Dr. Daniel Amen

You talked about earlier, you know, why doesn't our body just make more of these things that are so beneficial?

We do make creatine.

We make about, I don't know, our liver makes about one to three grams a day of creatine.

And our brain also makes creatine.

And those are the two organs that make it.

Creatine gets consumed by other tissues, like the muscle is probably the one that's the greediest because creatine is stored as phosphocreatine, but it's used to make energy, essentially.

So it can increase muscle.

muscle mass, it can increase muscle strength in combination with resistance training because you're able to regenerate and make energy faster.

So for example, I became interested in it after reading studies where people that supplemented with creatine that were engaged in resistance training were able to gain more lean body mass.

They were able to gain more strength.

It was increasing their training volume.

So you can do one to two more reps, right?

whatever exercise you're doing.

And it seems to decrease the recovery time between those sets as well.

So you're able to increase your training volume.

Well, anything that's going to increase your training volume is going to then have the downstream effect of, you know, increasing the adaptations like increased muscle mass or increased muscle strength.

I started supplementing with creatine about a year ago, and I started supplementing with it for that reason, for my training.

And I was doing about five grams a day because that was really what was shown to be beneficial for muscle health in combination with resistance training.

And it's important for people to realize that

Supplementing with creatine by itself without any type of resistance training isn't going to grow your muscle.