Dr. Darren Candow

Now keep in mind that can be found in meat or seafood, but you're going to require a lot.

So the loading phase is the most rapid way to saturate your muscles.

Now, that's very beneficial, but that would be four scoops.

So four scoops is a loading phase per day and it's very effective.

But the issue is, can it cause some adverse GI tract irritation, things like that?

So we're anecdotally people report that.

But a lot of people from a muscle perspective will start with just five grams a day and that's very beneficial.

Oh, across from a skeletal muscle perspective, you get a whole plethora.

So you definitely get an increase in lean tissue mass or muscle size.

And then again, muscle performance, muscle strength, power and endurance.

And the other one that never gets a lot of press, which should, is functional ability.

An older adult to sit the stand.

This has applications getting off the toilet, out of the bed, out of a car.

So as we get older, we're losing muscle strength and performance, as well as functionality and creatine and weight training seems to come to the rescue there.

And is there anyone that shouldn't take creatine?

You know, I can't find anybody that can't or shouldn't.

The safety profile is exceptional.

If they have pre-existing medical conditions, they definitely need to speak to their doctor.

Besides that, I'm not seeing any reason a healthy individual can't take or shouldn't take creatine.

So that's an interesting colleague of mine, Dr. Stacey Ellery out of Australia is now finally looking at human trials with pregnancy going into breast milk into the fetus.