Dr. Darren Candow

And we think muscle fiber recruitment, primarily type 2 muscle fibers, is one of the main reasons.

Excellent question.

It does.

It really speeds it up.

So on average, if you were to totally wipe out your normal creatine stores, it takes about three to five minutes for your mitochondria to recover that.

However, creatine really, really speeds up that recovery.

which is great for the average person.

They don't have a lot of time to work out.

They can't wait around for three to five minutes in between a really intense set.

So it really speeds up the recovery.

Not only does it speed up the recovery after every set, but in between contractions as well.

So over time, the individual could probably have a really intense, great workout in less time total and get actually more favorable effects.

It's super important.

So there's velocity or power training or variety training.

First, we've got to get people to move and then allowing them to give some type of benefit to their training program.

So creatine is probably the one that will be number one when people select it, even probably more than caffeine nowadays from an exercise training capacity.

So it should be considered.

It can have a lot of substantial beneficial effects.

And as we get older, after about the fourth decade, unfortunately, we start to lose these type two muscle fibers.

And so exercise has to be foundational.