Rhonda Patrick

I'm doing resistance training, strength training, and high-intensity inner training.

That's including the types of stuff that I'm used to doing, biking and rowing, but also adding in doing some drop sets with front squats with the barbell and things like that.

So the improvements in the muscle strength presumably are coming because you're increasing your training volume, right?

Or is there a direct effect on strength?

You mentioned some of the anti-inflammatory effects of creatine, particularly in the context of more endurance type of training.

People that are perhaps running marathons or just clocking in a lot of hours of running or cycling per week.

Is that...

I think that goes to some respect in the recovery sort of bin, right?

And I'm wondering if that also plays a role in recovering from doing your resistance training, strength training, like on a recovery day.

So, I mean, do you think it plays a role just broadly in recovery?

So when people hear catabolic or, you know, they'll think of muscle breakdown, right?

And certainly, you know, there's a big component to sarcopenia, inflammation in sarcopenia, which is age-related muscle breakdown.

Is there a role for creatine in preventing the breakdown of muscle?

Does creatine have a general anti-inflammatory effect in both males and females?

And circling back to people that are supplementing with creatine and it improves their training volume, improves their strength, why do people have to supplement with creatine?

So from a perspective of a vegan who is not getting any almost amount of dietary creatine, they're relying on their liver to make it.

What's going on in their brain?

You mentioned the brain makes creatine.

During development, is the developing brain making its own creatine?

So creatine is mostly found in animal foods, meats, poultry, fish.