Rhonda Patrick

Has anyone ever looked at creatine?

you know, creatine's role in helping prevent infectious, you know, disease or respiratory illness, fighting off pathogens.

Like just anecdotally, I supplement with glutamine and create my five grams of, it's about 5.6 grams of glutamine I take a day and with creatine, five grams of creatine.

And it has made a insanely big difference in my susceptibility to respiratory illness, which

I have a little seven-year-old who brings home everything.

Yeah, it's like a vector.

Yeah.

And it's made a really big difference.

And glutamine also is just, it's consumed by activated T cells.

Right, right, yeah.

Yeah, so it would be interesting to see if there's any effect of

both of those, but even just looking at creatine as well.

I know glutamine's been shown in endurance athletes who are very prone to respiratory illness, like these marathon runners.

It's really like they're really just getting to that catabolic state, right?

Are you familiar with any of that workup of the long distance runners and glutamine?

There's like a few studies showing that these marathoners and stuff, they don't get as many respiratory illnesses if they're taking glutamine.

Well, there certainly doesn't seem to be any shortage of interesting things to study with creatine.

And it's like, you know, the field is exploding.

So maybe someone out there will be looking at that at some point.

Another really interesting area is the vascular health.