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