Dr. Darren Candow

You could also encompass that with endurance and power.

It also improves lean body mass.

So here's a big discrepancy that a lot of the viewers might not know.

When we measure lean body mass in the labs, we're

We're technically measuring blood, connective tissue, soft tissue.

So we're not directly measuring muscle mass.

We need to do a lot more research on that.

But in general, about 50% of the value of lean body mass we consider muscle.

So it has some small favorable effects.

There's been some studies with QCT as well as ultrasound.

But you can get an increase in lean body mass, regional muscle thickness, muscle performance.

But probably the area that most people don't realize is the recovery aspects.

It really seems to have some anti-catabolic effects, potentially anti-inflammatory effects.

And that's interesting because it's from the aerobic community.

For the longest time, we never thought creatine was for endurance or aerobic type athletes.

And the best lines of evidence from a recovery aspect are

come from long-duration aerobic exercise, a marathon, ultramarathon, triathlon.

It seems to reduce cytokines.

So those are markers of inflammation.

So there's a whole gamut of mechanisms.