Habits and Hustle
Episode 402: Liron Kayvan: The Truth about Plant-Based Diets + Is Creatine Crucial for Aging?
29 Nov 2024
Chapter 1: What are the benefits of creatine?
There's a pro and con. The pro is I think creatine is the most scientifically studied supplement ever. Genuinely, I think. You can fact check me on this, but I'm pretty sure. It is.
I'm going to say that again. Creatine is the most science-backed, most studied supplement, I think, on the market right now.
By far. I think... of all time and it's not just studied by companies trying to sell it to the masses. This is very deep medical practice. If a woman needs to get the birth weight of their baby up, if they're dangerously low birth weight, they'll take creatine. I know people take it for all sorts of brain
This is what I want to talk about. So let's just back it up a second, okay? Because creatine scares me. I'm a woman. I'm scared of creatine, even though I know that it's the most studied supplement. I know that it helps build muscle. I know that there's amazing research that proves it's great for your cognitive abilities, your brain health. However...
I'm not alone when I feel, and I don't know if it's just like the psychological thing, that creatine will make me gain weight. I feel like that to me, because I've seen in my life. Well, listen, I've seen in my life, because it's been predominantly used by men. And up until very recently, it's really been like a man supplement.
Every guy I know would take a scoop of creatine and put it in his shake to get super mass and get jacked.
Protein used to be like that, but now we realize protein is for everyone and everyone needs more protein, essentially.
True, true. But how do women get over the psychological hump that creatine will make them fat?
So a couple of things. As I was saying before, it's the most scientifically studied supplement ever. And it was studied not for like aesthetic, muscular fitness goals. It was studied for medical things. So this is safe and they wouldn't give it to women if it made you unhealthy. So that's the first thing you need to say about it.
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Chapter 2: Is creatine safe for women?
It's a little bit woke though, isn't it? You might get cancelled. It's part of the whole woke thing.
No, like you'll literally offend somebody if you say you have to eat meat. Like right when you said, oh my God, we've evolved to be somebody who eats red meat, whatever. Literally in my head while you were saying it, I was like, oh my God, he's going to get in trouble. Yeah. To me, that is so effed up.
It's politicized. It's socialized.
But it shouldn't be. It should be like, this is your opinion. That's what you think. By the way, I'm a person that needs to have animal protein as well, or else I feel starving. I have a friend, actually, Darren Olean, who's one of my best friends. who is plant-based.
I have best friends who are plant-based.
Okay, vegan. And it works for him. Like, he looks amazing.
Does he take supplements?
Maybe a couple. He takes like truniogen NAD. He takes, I'm sure he takes a bunch of other things I don't know about. But the reason why I'm bringing him up is like, he has a lot of lean muscle mass. He looks good. But he's probably one of the only people I know who are vegan, who look that good, and who feel to me like that he's super healthy. I could be totally wrong.
He is probably really, really healthy, really dedicated and has all his ducks in a row and would probably be 5% or 10% better if he had me.
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