Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
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The most studied, most proven compound in the history of sports nutrition was, in fact, discovered by accident.
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In the mid 1980s, the British biochemist Roger Harris was studying muscle metabolism in racehorses.
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A supplier sent him the wrong compound.
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What he had actually ordered was.
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Carnosine.
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What arrived was creatine.
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Eventually, he decided, well, I guess I got to use this up.
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And not on a person, but on a racehorse.
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The protocol was simple: dissolve the creatine in water, deliver it, draw blood over two hours and see whether anything moved.
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But as we all know, creatine barely dissolves in water and especially cold water.
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He forced ten grams into a syringe and it clogged.
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So he did what any normal scientist would do.
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He measured a smaller dose, five grams dissolved it in water, and he drank it himself.
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Then he drew his own blood at intervals.
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And this is kind of not far off from the Barry Marshall story, drinking H.
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pylori to prove that it caused ulcers.
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This kind of self-experiment, which is one that I don't necessarily recommend, became the study.
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The manuscript was rejected by two journals before it landed in 1992 in clinical science.
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Very small study, 17 subjects, five grams of creatine several times a day, muscle biopsies to measure whether the tissue.
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retained creatine rather than the plasma.
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