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Dr. Darren Candow

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1177 total appearances

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FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

99% of all the thousands of papers.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

And the one I hear a lot is there's a better bioavailable form than monohydrate.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

And I'm like, wait a minute.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

Creatine monohydrate's bioavailability is near 100%.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

There might be a little bit extracted from the gut.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

So how can you get more than 100%?

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

And then if it even got into the cell, I've never seen a study to show that it increased protein synthesis or had any of the effect on satellite cells or whichever.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

I'm only aware that it increased creatine content.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

So the good thing there is in those cells, I think it was hydrochloride.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

That means it is a form of creatine.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

But did it lead to performance benefits better than monohydrate?

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

I've never seen it.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

So I...

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

Just caution people.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

Just don't get caught in a lot of these marketing forms, really expensive forms when monohydrate is the one true.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

I'm going to Germany and we're going to be talking for four straight days in two weeks on monohydrate.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

Why?

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

Because that's what all the evidence-based researchers need to talk about because it's the only form that seems to be very viable.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

Yeah.

FoundMyFitness
#100 The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD

So I recommend to these people, and it happens quite often, the sort of micro dose.