Rhonda Patrick

is essentially improving your exercise performance in that you can do one to two more reps or essentially the volume of training goes up because you're recycling that energy quicker.

You're able to do more and that is why you then get gains in muscle mass and strength.

It's not like the creatine itself is acting like protein.

It's not increasing muscle protein synthesis if you're just a couch potato.

You have to do the work.

Right.

And the reason that you do increase the muscle mass and strength is because you're able to do more work.

It's pretty obvious.

Anyone that for me with my CrossFit, it really is useful because there's a lot of explosive training, a lot of hit.

So for me, it was pretty obvious that it was having an effect.

And of course, there's probably a mixture of placebo in there as well.

I'll definitely admit that.

But then I started getting interested in some of these brain studies.

As you know, I'm very interested in brain health, neurodegenerative disease risk, anything that can improve cognitive function in a safe way, like any kind of safe nootropic.

And that's where I really started to get interested.

And this has built up over years where I was getting interested in the brain effects, even though I hadn't been supplementing with it.

I had been keeping an eye on the literature.

And finally, when I started using it, I got pushed over.

I'm like, OK, I'm all in.

I want to get into this.