Rhonda Patrick
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Yes.
I was already like, first of all, the literature was clear with the muscle.
There's a lot of literature.
You can't deny it.
You just can't.
Exactly.
Right.
And when we're talking about 40 years or whatever of research, that's a lot of data.
With the brain, so for one, your brain does make a little bit of creatine as well, something I don't remember.
I think it's somewhere between one to three grams a day.
But the data on the effects of supplemental creatine on the brain isn't dating back as far.
And so you do have to kind of take the data with someone of a grain of salt because there's a lot of small studies and they're not like, you can't hang your hat on it.
This is the end all be all.
Okay, well, first, let's talk about dose because that's important.
And I think that that was where initially when researchers were looking into like the effects of creatine on the brain, the five grams a day didn't seem to be doing anything in terms of getting creatine into the brain.
It is.
However, the muscles are greedy as hell.
Yeah, the greedy muscles.
When you're taking in up to about five grams of creatine, they're consuming it.
They're taking their share.