Dr. Darren Candow

When we take in a little bit more, there is some substantial beneficial effects across the whole board, not just muscle.

We're now looking at bone, brain, and the immune system.

Yeah, it's very interesting.

So on average, vegans have substantially less muscle creatine compared to an omnivore or carnivore diet.

But an elegant study out of Brazil about four years ago, they used sort of an MRI for the brain, and they showed that vegans and omnivores had the same amount of brain creatine stored.

So that's really substantiating that the brain makes its own creatine.

It probably makes enough for the non-stressed individual.

But during times of metabolic stress, the question is,

Well, vegans or omnivores need more, and it's likely that that's true, yeah.

It is, yeah.

Just like our liver is making its own creatine, and it's probably an accelerated rate for brain development, cognitive development.

Again, our brain is small, but it uses 20% of our daily energy.

And, of course, during development, that's when it's very, very precious as well, yeah.

Trace amounts.

You'd have to eat the entire orchard of whatever plant you're thinking.

And same with milk.

You'd have to drink all the milk from a Jersey cow to get any significant amount.

So that's why it's unrealistic.

That's the whole 95%.

We can't forget about the bone and brain are the main areas, yeah.