Madeleine Finlay
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2,527 appearances
37 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Madeleine Finlay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Today, does creatine live up to the hype?
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From The Guardian, I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly.
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Ian, I've heard so many claims about creatine, and I know a lot of people taking it as well.
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And doing the job that we do, it's really hard not to be skeptical of any kind of supplement at all.
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So I want you to tell me, is creatine worth bothering with?
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But first, I guess I need to know what it is.
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What's it doing in our bodies?
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What do we need it for?
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Okay, so when you're doing high intensity exercise in particular, creatine has this role where it can help the cells release more energy for longer, but how do we actually make creatine in our bodies?
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Right, Ian, so we know that creatine has this useful role in our bodies.
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We can make it through the foods that we eat, so how well studied is it as a supplement?
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When you hear that there are thousands of papers, it sounds very impressive, but then
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The question is when you go and look at those papers, how many of them are going to be those high quality gold standard research studies that you always look for?
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And one of the big problems in any kind of supplement research is you go to the paper, you look at the the affiliations and the declarations, and you see, ah, okay, this has actually been paid for by a company that makes the supplement.
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And of course you understand why that is, but then at the same time
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It's a big pinch of salt on any kind of result that you see.
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So look, I think it's fair to say I'm still a bit of a sceptic on this, but give me the big picture on the evidence for supplementing creatine.
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Okay, so supplementing with creatine, there is this possibility that you can get this benefit of being able to train a little bit harder or maybe a little bit longer.
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Is that why it's associated with gaining muscle?
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Coming up, if you want to experiment with taking creatine, where should you start?
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