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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
And we have all these new areas.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
That's why I think the emergence of new dosing strategies has really come to light.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
Because five is the average global recommendation.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
And that's a fantastic dose overall, we think, to start, especially from a muscle perspective.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
So it'll take you 21 days to fully saturate your skeletal muscles.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
So after that, you're going to have some being excreted in your urine, or let's pray here, hopefully some is now being uptaken into your bone because the muscle is pulling on bone.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
Your bone is a very metabolically active tissue, which no one actually sees in the mirror.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
And then hopefully some is trickling more into your brain.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
So the thought is, okay, five grams is very viable.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
Easily 21 days, your muscles will be full.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
Taking five grams a day thereafter, some would probably go in the form of creatinine, but
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
But hopefully, and we don't know this, maybe some is going into your bone, being used by your immune system, your GI tract, your gut health, and your brain.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
So five is a great dose.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
I'd like it to be higher just because of some of the new data to suggest every day we get out of bed, we're a day older.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
There's some good evidence to suggest bone needs a bit more.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
And of course, the brain, we still don't know.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
But I have some lines of thinking about when we're really metabolically stressed, how much to take.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
But if you're taking five, rest assured, you're doing exceptionally well.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
By two ways, a direct and indirect.
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#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
So let's go with the boring direct.