Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Unless you're consuming massive, massive amounts of caffeine, like if you were doing like caffeine pills or something, then maybe I would be worried, but not with a normal like- So you mix it with coffee?

I mix it with coffee and then tea.

Morning and night or- I do it all in the morning.

Okay.

You know, that's when I want my brain to function optimally.

So today, for example, I came from the West Coast.

I'm now on the East Coast.

So I am-

completely in a different time zone, three hours behind.

I had to wake up three hours earlier than normal.

My brain wasn't working as, you know, it was sleep deprivation.

So I actually took 20 grams this morning.

And I do that when I travel, when I'm sleep deprived, I up my usual 10 grams to 20 grams a day because I have noticed it's not like a stimulant like caffeine, but I am better cognitively if I have that 20 grams after being sleep deprived.

And, you know, again, maybe it's placebo because I know about the studies, but you know what?

Placebo works, so I don't care.

And there's not a real downside.

That's where I'm at with creatine.

I get my mom to take it.

I think, you know, aging itself is a stress on the brain.

And like I said, it's the same thing as training.