Dr. Darren Candow

Yeah, it was colleagues at University of Idaho and Brown and C.J.

Prush.

And they looked at young, healthy individuals, biological females.

And we gave a pretty high dose here, five grams plus we add a five grams of placebo.

So 10 grams a day versus a 10 gram placebo.

And this was done for six weeks.

And they resistance train with a tonal home gym for two days a week.

And the interesting thing is total sleep duration on the days they trained was substantially higher.

I think it was about almost an hour.

compared to placebo and again these are young um university age students um that were taking creatine about five grams a day the nice thing is it also improves strength there was no big fluctuations in weight gain which was very very uh interesting no adverse effects um now there was no mechanisms assessed but the logic was that on the days these individuals are training um

Maybe they put in more effort.

So creatine helped recover the body a little bit more, allowed that body to be in repair mechanism a little bit more.

And they slept more for about an hour on average more.

We still don't know the exact reason, but it is interesting that it improves sleep duration.

Yeah.

Yeah, it goes against most things.

the comments I get where when people take high dose creatine, some people say they feel like insomnia or intermittent sleep.

And the theory there from a rodent model out of Belgium is that maybe the brain is recovering quicker that it doesn't need to sleep as long.

So we still need a lot of work to do.

We need to look at different stages of sleep.