Ian Sample

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Science Weekly · Creatine: is there truth behind the hype? · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

Plants don't have creatine in them. matched

But they can eat foods which will have the three amino acids in with which to build creatine in their bodies. matched

And so if you're eating like a lot of nuts and legumes, you're going to get the amino acids you're going to need to build creatine in your body. matched

And if you're vegetarian, dairy foods and eggs as well are going to help. matched

Creatine's got a really long history. matched

It was discovered by a French scientist in 1832. matched

And, you know, really since then, it has become one of the most studied supplements out there, often in the context of sort of building muscle in training. matched

When you do a quick search under creatine, you'll find thousands of research papers looking at creatine and what it does and what it doesn't do. matched

When you look at the effects specifically on women, actually, it's not as impressive. matched

I mean, you'll find maybe only a few hundred papers. matched

So the research is definitely skewed and there's less known about the actual specific effects in women. matched

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I mean, whenever you're looking at research and and particularly when you're looking at research on supplements, you want to check whether that research has been conducted by a company that happens to sell supplements. matched

Okay, absolute conflict of interest 101 that you want to check out. matched

But you know, having said that, the evidence that, you know, creatine supplementation can give you this sort of training boost does seem to be pretty reliable. matched

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as good as a consensus that that is happening and it all makes a lot of sense. matched

I think the question then becomes, okay, well, how big a deal is that, right? matched

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What's interesting here is if you think about how much creatine does a particular person store in their muscle cells, like just from the diet they have already and and so on. matched

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