Dr. Rhonda Patrick

But so I was a competitive jump roper from the age of about eight to 16.

And, and, and that was, that was a big part of my life.

And not only just a competitive jump roper, but also like I would a very leadership role because I would travel around and start teams at different schools.

So I was,

going to schools, doing demonstrations with my team and then starting teams for them.

And so you get this very leadership role.

You get to- Early on.

Confidence building early on.

So it was really great experience.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The team was very cool.

Anyways, that was a complete, I wasn't taking creatine then, but fast forward, you know, a couple of years ago, I was, you know, probably about 45, 44 when I really started getting serious about resistance training and creatine came into that equation for me.

And why is that?

Well, when you take supplemental creatine in the form of creatine monohydrate, it's the most well-studied form, creatine then in the body, it gets converted into creatine phosphate, and it's basically stored that way in your muscles, for example, and it's the major source of energy.

So you need creatine phosphate.

The phosphate is used to make energy.

And so what happens is that when you take in creatine and you're doing training, like anything that's resistance training, any kind of explosive training,

any kind of high interval, high intensity interval training, even aerobic exercise, the creatine allows you to make energy faster

And so it basically affects your training volume.