Dr. Darren Candow

No, thanks for having me.

I'm really excited as well.

Absolutely.

Yeah, like it's really evolved over the last 40 years.

It's gone from athletes getting bigger, stronger, faster.

Now we're looking at potential benefits on bone health.

brain health, cardiovascular health, even in children and during pregnancy.

So it's evolved from just the young male athlete to pretty much anybody on the planet is now considering creatine either in their diet or supplementation.

So for the next few hours, super excited to talk about all aspects of creatine and the evidence-based research behind it.

Well, because it works from a muscle performance perspective.

So really, it basically increases the ability to produce ATP or maintain it during an exercise session.

So, for example, when you're doing, you know, squat or leg press or even running, you're doing muscle contractions and phosphocreatine, which is what we're going to be talking about today from creatine supplementation.

It really maintains ATP or adenosine di-triphosphate levels.

So if you have more ATP longer, you can exercise at a higher capacity, a higher intensity.

And that delays the utilization of other energy systems that might be a bit slower.

So anybody involved in high-explosive anaerobic type of sports, weightlifting, high-intensity interval training, for example, probably would experience some benefits from creatine supplementation.

All the above.

So it definitely seems to increase training volume.

So that's either the load by the reps by the set or exercise capacity from a cardiovascular perspective.

It definitely, if you were to choose one thing why creatine has been so effective, it's improving muscle strength.