Dr. Steven Novella
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10,556 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Dr. Steven Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So the idea is if you take supplements, you'll increase your store of phosphocreatine, and therefore you'll increase the availability of this energy currency to the brain when it needs it so it'll function better.
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So I consider this to be a semi-plausible mechanism.
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At least it's something physical happening, like the biology adds up.
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It's not saying quantum vibrations or anything like that, right?
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It's saying, you know, ATP.
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But...
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The idea that because it's based upon the premise that the availability of the raw material is a rate-limiting step here.
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And that's rarely the case, right?
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Just eating more of something usually doesn't make your body function better.
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It would only be helpful in a situation where the body is being stressed beyond its normal parameters.
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And we'll get to that in a second.
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Or where you are deficient for some reason.
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Right.
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Or you have a disease that makes it deficient.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Vitamin C is helpful for scurvy because you're deficient in vitamin C. But if you're a healthy person with a good diet, taking more vitamin C probably isn't going to help.
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Right?
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That's the idea.
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So I have sort of the same overall view of this.
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It's like, okay, that sort of makes sense and it's helpful.
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