Dr. Daniel Amen

And I've done like 25 grams of creatine and it's insane how much it helps me.

Again, it could be placebo because I'm anticipating that effect, which is fine.

Placebo is a real thing.

It's great.

I'm all about it.

But there's some evidence also that this works, right, that the creatine is helping with under that sleep deprivation and that stressful condition.

It's fascinating.

I mean, depression is a type of brain stress, right?

I mean, we know inflammation plays a role in depression.

We know oxidative stress plays a role in depression.

And there have now been some animal studies that have shown creatine is somehow having an anti-inflammatory effect.

That hasn't all been worked out.

So I don't know if it's all just the energy component of it.

It could also be this other sort of newly identified role that creatine is playing in sort of having an anti-inflammatory effect.

And I don't know enough about that.

I don't know that there's enough even known about that, but I do know that it exists.

And it's fascinating because, again, I think where creatine really shines in the brain is

And it's been shown study after study is under some kind of stressful condition, depression or sleep deprivation.

Or there's a new study that came out.

It was published, I don't know, a month ago or so, showing that it was a very small pilot study.