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JJ Virgin

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

And one of the biggest complaints as women start to get into perimenopause is that they have poor energy.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

This can help, and it can help not just with body, but can help with mental, like with focus, with mood.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

In fact, there was a study done on postmenopausal women on SSRIs, and those who did creatine actually had way better changes in their mood than those who didn't.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

They're now doing studies on it for...

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

neurodegenerative diseases and for cognition.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

So it helps you work out harder because of the energy.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

It also helps you with recovery, but it doesn't build... You don't take creatine, sit on the couch and something happens.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

Now, here's what happened.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

As I started to dig into this a couple of years ago, I...

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

looked at, I'm like, everybody needs to be on this, right?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

And especially women, we have less tissue stores of this than men do.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

So I was like, we need this and we need it in our brains.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

And so I was like, you know, pushing it.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

I was a creatine pusher and everything I'd ever heard was monohydrate.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

It's the most studied.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

So do that one, which is true.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

It's the most studied, but it's kind of like, you know, a rotary phone.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

Just because we've always used it doesn't mean that's the best one, right?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

I mean, would you switch over, you know, would you still be using a rotary phone at this point?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 489: JJ Virgin on HRT and Creatine HCL: The Protocol That Actually Works for Women

No, you would not.