Is Creatine the Secret to Stronger Bones & Muscle After 40 For Women

when you look at perimenopause and menopause, you, you get brain fog, fatigue, you're losing muscle, you're becoming more insulin resistant because you're losing the muscle because your estrogens are like all the things you're getting more inflamed. And then you, you're starting to lose bone, your skin's wrinkling. I just went through it and I went, creatine, creatine, creatine, creatine can help in all of these situations. Then I was reading a study they'd done with monohydrate where they gave postmenopausal women 20 grams of creatine. I guess they just kind of suffered through that, but it helped their depression. Yeah.

So yeah, there are some, uh, really neat studies going on. These are not studies we're doing right now, but we've been watching them closely and supporting them. Um, and that is on the, the addition of creatine for MAT, medical assisted, um, treatment of depression. Bipolar, etc. And, and they find significantly better outcomes in the populations that are being treated, but also having creatine added to that regimen. So that's exciting. We've, we've got research going on right now on neurodegeneration. We have a doctor that is using creatine in his Huntington's patients. Huntington's is like Alzheimer's on steroids. It kills younger and faster, and it's a dreaded disease. And they're seeing very therapeutic results in terms of no disease progression, no symptomology advancement in these patients, these Huntington's patients that are taking substantial doses of the creatine hydrochloride, and it's delivering more creatine to the neurons, making them more resilient under the ravages of that disease. We see research, I mentioned,— I think previously Dr. Lily Yang and her T-cell research. Creatine is being demonstrated to be very important in cancer to help keep the body resilient, to fight off chemo brain fog, chemo fatigue, and to help support the T-cells in our own body's natural fight in, you know, survival against, against cancer. We've got a study going on right now kind of along the lines of neuron resilience with TBI and concussion, where we are investigating whether or not creatine dosing can, can either prevent or lessen concussions or can help accelerate recovery and help the brain recover better. There's been research done that there was one study It's an older study, but it, it showed that there were no changes in creatine levels in the brain in the wake of oral administration or oral consumption of creatine monohydrate. So they were thinking, oh, well, creatine doesn't get to the brain. Well, no, creatine monohydrate doesn't get to the brain because it's not efficient enough. You don't have enough absorption. But we have demonstrated that creatine hydrochloride very effectively gets to the brain and helps with, with neuron energy and the cellular energetics of the brain. So those are neat studies. We finished up a study on creatine and coronavirus and demonstrated how the T cells have more energy to fight off COVID-19 or SARS or MERS and those sorts of things. So yeah, there is a considerable there's a considerable body of research with creatine. There's a considerable additional body of research that's coming on more of the, the creatine efficacy when the doses are able to be sustained in patients. They're at a level that creates a positive clinical outcome. And I think it's— we're entering over the next 2 or 3 years a very exciting time to, to see some of that research demonstrate that creatine will become an important part of many therapeutic regimens.

You're being like that old radio host who kept thumping on the table and I'm waiting to wrestle your papers. I'm like, he's thumping over there.

That's, that's how excited I get about the research.

He wants to talk with his hands so much. I'm like, thump, thump, thump. So I just have to share a little anecdotal story I was telling you about. Before we sat down that I'd read the research about creatine helping with sleep and, and, or creatine helping when you're sleep deprived. And I try, I try my hardest never to be sleep deprived. Like sleep's my big thing. However, you know, when you're traveling country to country, sometimes your sleep can get really wonky. And so I thought, well, if it works for sleep deprivation, what will it do for jet lag? And I literally had the craziest summer where I was flipping time zones. I was, went from Florida to London to Boston to Spain to Portugal to back to Florida, over to British Columbia, back to, and I was like, okay, this is just silly. I just used creatine the whole way through and had no issues whatsoever. Like no jet lag whatsoever. It's amazing. I'm like, do you know what a game changer that is in life? Because this used to be the thing holding me back. I was living between California and Florida and struggling just doing that. Now I can go over to Europe with no problems.

Yeah, yeah. It, it's amazing how when you give the body the nutritional, energetic compounds and substances that it needs, it performs really well. We're pretty amazing that way. But a lot of people suffer because they don't have the right nutritional or supplementary regimen in their lives.

So I'm not surprised to hear that. Yeah, this is the ultimate travel hack. It's fantastic. Well, let's talk about some of the side effects, real or perceived, you know, because there's, there's so much out there that I think I don't know. I think it was maybe one study way back when that was mis— misinterpreted about hair loss or something. So hair loss is definitely one that I get asked about all the time.

Yeah. Yeah. That was a study back in 2009 and it was a bunch of rugby players. And I'm— first of all, I'm not really sure about the, the legitimacy of some of the testing and some of the data interpretation. But what it showed was that these guys had an elevated level level of DHT. And DHT is dihydrotestosterone, is associated with hair loss. And, uh, and they thought that, uh, oh, this must be from the creatine use.

And maybe they were taking testosterone.

Well, it could have been all sorts of things. Um, and, uh, but there, there certainly were a number of other variables in the study that they didn't monitor in, in order to try to create some, uh, veracity to, to those claims or concerns. What's happened since then, there's been at least a dozen studies that have looked at creatine and DHT and hair loss. And what those studies have shown is that that's an unfounded concern. Creatine is not associated with hair loss. And in fact, just like it helps any cell function optimally, it makes dermal and hair cells function optimally. So that's not a side effect of creatine. Conversely, you know, Obviously men would be concerned about that.

Women would be concerned about—

Yeah, women certainly.

Everyone's concerned about.

Yeah, that's true. It's DHT is a little more prevalent in men, but it certainly would affect anybody. I'll say on the positive side for men, one side effect that has been demonstrated in at least one study is that creatine can help with— I'll just simply describe it as male vitality. So I won't, I won't belabor that much, but just simply that, that there is improved male vitality associated with creatine use.

So, so, gals, you can take the chiatine and just cover that S with your finger and let your guys have the hiatine.

Hiatine. There you go.

Or tell them that it's only for women so that they can't take your stash.