McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Unlocking Energy: The Power of Creatine and Essential Nutrients

13 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube health/nutrition segment from McCall McPherson highlighting common deficiencies in omega-3s and vitamin D and advocating creatine as a foundational, orthomolecular supplement. The speaker explains creatine's role via creatine phosphate in ATP recycling, notes its primary storage in muscle (~95%) versus brain (~5%), and lists multiple claimed benefits including improved energy, cognitive focus, support for traumatic brain injury and dementia, help with sleep deprivation, improved bone mineral density, skin and immune support, and possible relevance to long COVID.

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Look at specific things like omega 3s, vitamin D, vitamin D that our body's supposed to be making. But we know so many of us are deficient in omega 3s that are so critical for our cell membranes and cell fluidity. And creatine. These are the orthomolecular super important things we must have, creatine being a foundational one. So I those to me, when you think of supplements, I think of supplements more like things like ashwagandha or rhodiola. I don't think of them as these core things that we should have been getting already, are getting in our diet. Our food sucks now and we're just not getting. So you look at what creatine does. The biggest thing that does is its core. We have creatine phosphate. This is our fast energy system. It helps us recycle and make ATP. ATP is like our body's energy currency. So by helping our body make energy cheat, we're going to be able to have better energy all throughout the day. But also because 95%'s in the muscle, 5%'s in the brain. Also helps with brain focus, it helps with traumatic brain injury, it helps with dementia, it helps with sleep deprivation. It's crazy huge for brain. Also helps with bone mineral density, it helps with skin, it helps with your immune system. They're now looking at it with long Covid.