Dr. Darren Candow

When your brain is stressed, it's being taken in quite readily.

So during times of metabolic stress, it seems to work.

Now, the argument is, how do I know I'm going to be stressed tomorrow?

How do I know I'm going to have a bad night's sleep?

You don't.

So that's why I think taking a higher daily dose might be a safety.

But the days you're like, oh, I didn't sleep at all.

And I have a big presentation later of me as a professor teaching four classes a term.

I've really increased the amount.

I would say I might be the most saturated person on the planet because I've been taking creatine for decades.

There's no reason to stop.

We can talk about cycling or continuous, but I'm even taking more in hope that it's getting into my brain.

again, 20 years ago, it was just muscle.

Then we've evolved into the bone, and now we're getting into the brain.

And I think a university student's midterm week, final exam, staying up all night, cramming, maybe creatine could really improve their ability to score better on tests.

And when you look at the mental fatiguing studies, that's when creatine seems to work.

After you've done a whole bunch of fatiguing exercises, or sorry, taking creatine before, it really speeds up your ability to maintain memory and cognition.

And

We can talk about neurofilament things in the brain or BDNF, and that's some of the mechanisms primarily in rodent.

So there is some mechanisms showing that creatine is decreasing oxidative stress or really having some potential for neuronal health, which now you think of Alzheimer's, dementia, neurodegenerative diseases.