Dr. Darren Candow

But it has been shown increased satellite cells, which are needed for recovery and rehabilitation, growth factors, IGF-1, and decreases myostatin, the one that increases protein breakdown.

So all of these factors come into play.

It's like the caramel secret.

There's a whole bunch of things that go into that chocolate bar.

Creatine seems to work in a very variety of ways.

And then again, on the other side, it's certainly been shown to decrease reactive oxidative species.

So it seems to have more of a preservation to the cell effect.

But from an injury perspective, it seems to speed up recovery.

Do we know would it speed up recovery if you took it before surgery?

The jury's out on that.

We'd have to do ACL surgery or studies on that, long-term clinical trials.

We see a bit of promise in osteoarthritis, but not a lot of other ones.

And because basically the studies haven't been done yet.

These are usually the loading phase with a slight maintenance phase.

Or if they're looking at it from a cellular perspective, it's usually just the loading phase, seven days pre-post.

They'll do biopsies or cellular data.

About five.

I would just continue on or even slightly a bit more because when the tissue is under trauma, you get heightened inflammation, reactive oxidative species or stress, and then protein breakdown.

So maybe it could help speed up your ability to recover quicker.

Yeah.