Rhonda Patrick

We talked about lack of sleep, you know, and things that's...

stressing the brain.

I guess neurodegenerative disease is a very stressful thing on the brain as well.

It would be interesting to see if creatine can help in that regard.

Although, again, prevention is always better, right?

Okay, well, what I was going to get to was the other part of brain disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders.

You have depression, anxiety.

Those are also unfortunately very common nowadays, even in younger adults and adolescents.

So there's been some interesting research with creatine and depression.

And there's also a big inflammatory component in depression.

There's the inflammation.

In fact, there have been studies just in healthy young individuals where they induce inflammation, so like LPS, it can cause depressive symptoms.

Well, what's interesting is, you know,

Activated lymphocytes, T cells, consume just enormous amounts of energy to basically become active and fight off pathogens.

And so I'm wondering if creatine is taken up by these immune cells and it maybe helps in some way.

I mean, you're saying it reduces cytokines.

I mean, a lot of these T cells are producing cytokines to fight off things.

But who knows if they have that potential?

energetic boost, how that could affect, you know, just I would say like the broader, like not having this huge kind of war going on, right?

I wonder if there's any.