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We have this white powder in front of
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me.
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>> You got a big smile on your face.
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>> I do because there is just so much
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benefit to this. Depending on which
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brand you've bought, of course, but I
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can't say enough about creatine. I have
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my parents on creatine. They're 71 years
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old. I've got my dad on highdose
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creatine. I've got my mother on lowdose
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creatine. It's the most widely studied
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supplement on the market. I think that
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this is a really cheap and effective way
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to get everything you want from both
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your physiology, an upgrade on your
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physiology and your neurohysiology.
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Creatine is a naturally occurring
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molecule. We produce around 2 to three
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grams of creatine per day. Gets secreted
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from a bit from the brain, but a lot
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from the liver. 2 to three grams a day
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is great, but it's not enough. So, we
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have to supplement with it. And all
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through the 90s and all through the
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2000s, people were supplementing with
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five grams a day. That is this scoop
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here, 5 grams of creatine per day. We
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have found that creatine has enormous
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benefits for the brain. But here's the
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problem. When you have 5 g of creatine,
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you're saturating the muscles. Okay,
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remember the muscles are so hungry, so
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they get first dibs and they take up all
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of that creatine. So then there's none
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left for the brain. We also lose a bit
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of the bioavailability when the creatine
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goes into the brain. It crosses the
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bloodb brain barrier, but when it goes
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into the brain, we lose some of it. So,
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we have to supplement with more than 5
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g. And one of the studies that changed
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my thinking came out last year. It was
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the first ever pilot study done on
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Alzheimer's disease patients. You're
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talking about patients whose brains are
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under attack. They're in an energetic
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crisis. They cannot produce energy
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effectively. ATP is all skewed. Brain
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glucose metabolism is skewed. They don't
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remember left from right. Cognitive
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functions are declined. They put them on
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uh 20 gram of creatine per day. These
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patients not only preserved their
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cognitive functions, but they had more
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energy and they were able to exercise
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more. It can protect your brain against
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a concussion. It can protect your g
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brain against a stroke. It can protect
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your brain from stress. The best thing
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about creatine is that it works in the
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background of stress. I think that's
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where most that's where you'll get most
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of the benefits from.
