JJ Virgin
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So women have less muscle mass than men. Duh, right? And when you look at creatine, we basically make about a gram a day from eating protein, from getting essential amino acids, right? And then we are going to also ingest creatine from meat or seafood every day. However, We have about 100 to 140 grams of creatine in our body.
And we need to take in, we need to make at least a gram a day and take in a gram or two every day from diet. Now, women have less creatine stores than men because we have less muscle mass than men. We store creatine mostly in our muscle, a little bit in our gonads. We don't have those either. And a little bit in our brain.
So you look at it and go, OK, so we're making it from a gram from essential amino acids. Then we need to get another gram or two from diet. OK, where do we get it from? We get it from meat. We get it from fish. But cooking really takes a lot. Like you really lowers the content.
So you either have to eat barely cooked, you know, sashimi, carpaccio, that kind of stuff, meat, about a pound of it a day or two pounds of the other. no woman ever is eating that. So they're not getting it. And then you have most people doing plant-based, so they're definitely not getting it. And they're probably not getting the essential amino acids and the amounts they need either.
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So they're deficient. So this is a huge problem. So women tend to be deficient in it anyway, right? What's it going to help us do? Well, creatine helps us create energy, right? It's going to help with our ATP creation because creatine goes to creatine phosphate. It's our quick, fast energy.
It's really important for the brain and it's really important for working out harder, recovering better, building more muscle, building more bone. It's important for your immune system. They're now looking at it for long COVID, by the way, and they did research with it for postmenopausal women on antidepressants.
They found women on antidepressants who took creatine had way better results than people who just took antidepressant alone. So neurocognitive, TBIs, there's so many different applications, basically anything around brain, around inflammation, around muscle protein synthesis, around immune skin, skin wrinkling. So you look at it and go, these are all like energy.
It's all what happens as you start to go into perimenopause and we're deficient in it. Then here's the situation with creatine that I think is so crazy. First of all, there's a bunch of myths out there about creatine, like hair loss.
That's like that stupid, like soccer guys where their DHT was raised, but they don't even know why because they didn't check to see if they were on like anything else, you know? And then They didn't even track that their hair went down, but there's hair loss. There's no hair loss. It's never been shown.
I will tell you, and I don't have the study published yet, but there is a study coming out that I have been told about that shows that 76% of women who go on creatine monohydrate will struggle with fluid retention or gas and bloating.
Here's the reality. Here's the crazy thing. So I said that you needed probably a gram of creatine a day. By the way, you take extra if you have sleep deprivation, jet lag. It's amazing if you're under more stress. But when you look at creatine monohydrate, the recommendations are three to five grams a day.
And you'll hear that it's all absorbed. Well, it's not all absorbed. Because if it was all absorbed, you wouldn't need three to five grams a day. You'd need a gram. Turns out it's about 15% absorbed. And that's why you're getting some of the GI issues, the fluid retention, but you'll always hear to use creatine monohydrate because it's the most studied form. It doesn't matter.
We're not looking at the form. We're looking at the effect that creatine has on your body. And so a year ago, I was doing a talk for a medical conference. And afterwards, this creatine formulator came up to me. And started to show me, he goes, you know, there's a better creatine out there that doesn't cause all this stuff. And I thought this is, you know, we should take creatine monohydrate.
I was like the parrot. You should take creatine monohydrate. All the studies are on there because it's like what I heard out there. And then I looked at all the research and looked at the difference in when it isn't 100% absorbed. In fact, nothing is 100% absorbed. No. So anyone who says that is off their rocker anyway. Right.
It turns out that the form that he created, because he came from toxicology and he wanted to solve the problem because he was working, he was actually drug testing athletes. Wow. And so, you know, he was hearing from athletes, oh, I really want like to be able to use this and this is happening. And so he created creatine HCL. It's 99% absorbed.
So you only need like 750 milligrams to get to where you need to be versus the five grams of creatine monohydrate. So what's cool about it is you don't get the bloating and you don't get the GI stuff that you'll get from regular creatine. So a lot of the stuff that women freak out about isn't going to happen.
And you might, if you are fortunate enough to get any, any fluid into your muscles, like I go game winner, you know, wish that would happen. Didn't happen to me, but we actually want that. That's a great thing, you know, and if you're doing bioimpedance testing, you'll see that as total body water and that's fantastic.
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