Tommy Wood

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The mindbodygreen Podcast · 645: The truth about cognitive decline and what you can do about it | Tommy Wood, M.D., Ph.D. · 12 Apr 2026 podcast

Creatine is something that I take every day and I have for a long time as an athlete.

I think the data on brain function and brain health with creatine is really, really interesting.

We're definitely not at a point where we could say it's going to be preventing cognitive decline.

Though, when you look across all the different randomized controlled trials, it seems to particularly benefit those who are either older...

or are experiencing some element of decline already.

And it particularly seems to improve memory.

That's the function that it seems to benefit the most.

But we also have evidence that even at sort of standard doses, 5 grams, it might improve treatment in depression, improve depression symptoms.

There's been a lot of focus recently

in sleep deprivation so there was one study that came out very recently showing that a high dose of creatine sort of helped maintain function during a night of sleep deprivation but actually there have been studies going back more than a decade that showed the same thing so there was a study in rugby players now in the sort of like 2010s where they had that they were sleep deprived and then they looked at

sports specific skills the next day and showed that again even just like lower doses five to ten grams of creatine significantly helped to maintain some of the the offset in in sports related skills that they saw with sleep deprivation so and then the final thing is i do some work in traumatic brain injury and concussion and there's a a pretty good amount of evidence that creatine may be beneficial there probably maybe more beneficial if it's on board beforehand rather than afterwards but even afterwards

Especially in pediatric concussion, there's some evidence that it may improve recovery.

So lots of interesting things about creatine and the brain.

I think that's only going to increase over time as people sort of become more interested in it.

Great, great, great combination.

Yeah, I think we're

We're now in this sort of third stage of convenience that could have a really significant impact on brain health.

So the first two, people are going to be familiar with, right?

So we've managed to engineer all movement out of the environment.

We don't need to move if we don't want to, right?

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