Dr. Darren Candow

So they had elite rugby players do a crossover design.

And a crossover design is really powerful.

That means the group gets both placebo and creatine.

So it really controls for diet, genetics, hormones, things like that.

When they took 20 grams a day, it might have been even 25 grams a day for seven days during the creatine supplementation phase, they increased the hormone dihydroxy testosterone or DHT.

And most people say, oh, I think I've seen commercials about this.

It's a surrogate of testosterone, but it's been highly linked to hair follicle loss and thinning from a cellular perspective.

They measured it in the blood, so the correlation, you know, it's just a surrogate.

But when they went up, I think it went up by about 57%, but it was still within the physiological range.

And what I mean by that is when you go to your doctor and they measure your blood glucose and it comes back and the doctor says, no, it's within the normal range, cholesterol's in the normal range, even increasing by 57%, I think that was the number.

It was still within the normal range.

When they were on placebo, it increased by about 40%.

So everybody says, whoa, hormone went up?

correlation, causation, everybody was freaking out that this hormone went up.

They did not measure hair follicle loss, thinning, cross-sectional area, no dermatologist was involved, but a lot of people have run with this.

And to this day, they cite this single study that even didn't look at free testosterone.

There was no increase.

So just because DHT went up a little bit and they start at lower, so there was more room to improve, people think it causes baldness.

I've assessed easily over a thousand people

Males and females, not a single person has said, hey, whatever you're giving to me, double blind is causing my hair to fall out.