Dr. Layne Norton

And honestly, especially for creatine, I just can't see an argument at this point not to take it.

Because of the cognitive benefits, there appear to be benefits on memory formation.

Even short-term, there was a study that just came out showing like 30 plus grams of creatine at a sitting actually acutely increased memory formation, which I was very surprised by.

Depression.

There was a study that showed that creatine helped a little bit with the symptoms of depression.

Again, cognition, possibly cognitive decline.

And then, of course, all the lean mass strength benefits, performance benefits that we talk about.

And it's very, very safe.

I mean, if you take creatine, you might see your creatinine levels go up.

it doesn't mean your kidneys are failing or anything like that.

Again, there's so many long randomized control trials looking directly at kidney function, showing that creatine does not negatively impact kidney function.

The one thing that I hear pop up consistently now is, well, it causes hair lice.

No, one study in 2009 showed that increased DHT, okay, which is a metabolite of testosterone.

It didn't show any changes in the precursor or the thing that comes after DHT.

And so how is this happening, right?

Like where is this happening?

I mean it must be directly affecting the enzyme that catalyses the conversion if we believe this, right?

But again, even if it was true, an increase in DHT is not the same thing as showing hair loss, right?

You're showing a surrogate marker.

You're showing a mechanism.