Ian Sample

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

And then you think about how much could they potentially store in those cells? matched

And that gap is is quite interesting. matched

So, you know, most people would be able to store more creatine if they were having supplementation. matched

And you'd imagine they would get some effect then if they needed this intense energy for doing intense exercise. matched

But we're all different. matched

And so that is where it becomes a bit tricky as to knowing how much of a effect. matched

An individual's gonna experience. matched

And this is something I spoke to Justin Roberts about. matched

He's a professor of nutritional physiology at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. matched

That's right. matched

But I spoke to Justin about this and he really wanted to make clear that, you know, just taking the creatine alone is not going to affect your. matched

But beyond the sort of the the big guns, there's also more limited evidence for benefits in other areas. matched

been used in the skincare industry for about 20 years. matched

And the c the claim there is that it helps with the production of collagen. matched

And we actually have a a a podcast coming up on on collagen specifically. matched

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The research on creatine and and effects on collagen looks pretty shaky to me and there's just so much that we still don't understand. matched

Well, the way it's done in a lot of the studies when they're looking for an impact from taking it when people are training is they they do a kind of a a loading phase at the beginning where you take quite a high dose of creatine for a few days to sort of really sort of push your levels up and then you drop down to a sort of sort of a maintenance dose. matched

But you know, you don't have to do it that way. matched

You can take a lower dose m and and maybe it will take a bit longer to matched

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