Ian Sample
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2,123 appearances
29 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
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So creatine is a naturally occurring compound, okay?
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It's made from amino acids, three different types of amino acids glycine, arginine, and methionine.
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And people might think of amino acids as the building blocks of proteins.
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They are the building blocks of proteins, but creatine itself isn't a protein.
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It's too small to be a protein, but it's made out of amino acids.
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Creatin' really sort of comes into its own in your body when you're doing sort of high-intensity activity.
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But let me give you some background first of the sort of what's going on inside cells when they're doing this, and then we'll see how creatine slots in.
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So
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Scientists talk about a sort of an energy currency in cells, and that energy currency is a compound called adenosine triphosphate, ATP.
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And as the name suggests, adenosine triphosphate has three phosphate groups attached to each molecule.
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Okay.
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When a cell wants some energy, it can split off one of those phosphate groups, and that releases a bit of energy that the cell can put to good.
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Work.
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So you know that can be used to contract muscles, say.
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And it leaves you with ADP, adenosine diphosphate.
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Okay, because you've lost one, you go try to die.
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Now, when you're doing a lot of intense exercise, you can burn through your ATP very quickly.
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