Dr. Rhonda Patrick

You're able to do one to two more reps per set because you're recovering faster.

You're making energy faster.

And so it plays a role in that exercise volume.

And that's why if you look at many, many different studies of people doing resistance training versus resistance training with creatine, they'll gain more muscle mass or lean body mass, including muscle.

They'll gain strength benefits if they're also adding creatine, not because creatine itself is anabolic.

It's not.

It's because you're able to do more work, right?

So it's allowing you to do more work.

Therefore, you're getting the muscle adaptations, right?

So I became very interested in creatine because of that.

And it was very clear to me after looking at the scientific literature, after talking to experts like Dr. Karen Kandao.

He's out of the University of Virginia.

He does a lot of creatine research.

That if you do five grams a day, that's about what it takes to saturate your muscle tissue.

It takes about three weeks to get there where five grams, okay, muscles are ready.

And so that was what I was doing initially.

And then I started really getting deeper into the creatine research.

And I was like, wow, from the neck up is where it's really interesting.

the effects on the brain.

Yes.