Dr. Darren Candow

What if we took a population with severe osteoporosis?

Maybe creatine could come to the rescue there.

That's another thing we're starting to hopefully get governmental funding for down the road.

But a lot of young females, a lot of young males, and of course, older females, even postmenopausal, their skeleton is still very beneficial and strong.

They may not have incidences of osteopenia or fracture risk.

But until we do a study and diagnose osteoporotic males and females, we just don't know if it's the disease or maybe they were just healthy enough.

Yeah, and that's 100% correct.

Like the movement is got to be there.

And I think most people are aware of the benefits of exercise.

And then if creatine or protein or whatever it is you're eating can give you a small beneficial effect, I'm all for it.

And I think a lot of people would be there as well.

So creatine definitely has the potential.

It kind of has a lot of potential for a lot of things.

But without protein, those two need to be there.

We don't think creatine can rescue a hypocaloric diet, especially low in protein, but we just don't know.

I argue that creatine falls in line with protein with its aging anabolic resistance.

As we get older, my guess is where we have lower creatine in some of our muscles as we get older, we need more protein.

So now there's a young versus older stereotype, just like protein.

Younger individuals may respond from 20 to 25 grams all the way up to older adults.

So I think creatine is definitely a part of my day.