Dr. Darren Candow

It's his best friend to help maintain these levels.

Now, when you exercise at a high intensity, you know, sprinting, weightlifting,

Those ATP stores do become jeopardized, and that's why creatine sort of sacrifices itself to come to the rescue.

So that's why anaerobic sports, the World Cup just started.

These individuals will be using a lot of creatine stores in their muscle.

The question is, do they have enough?

And if they had more, could they play better?

And so our body makes creatine naturally?

That's correct.

It's making about one to three grams a day, but only in two areas.

So this will be quite shocking for people.

We're only actually making it in the liver and the brain.

We don't make it in skeletal muscle, but you store 95% in our muscle.

So when it's being made in the liver or brain, the brain will keep it there, but in the liver, it will get transported in the blood up to your skeletal muscle.

The question is, well, what if we need more?

And that's where dietary creatine from red meat or seafood or supplementation comes into play.

There are small populations with, unfortunately, they were born with the inability to synthesize creatine.

They would have a deficiency and they are required to take supplementation.

The other unique population is vegans and vegetarians.

So vegan and vegetarian diet is extremely healthy.