Short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video in which Wendie Trubow asks who is the ideal user for creatine. The respondent states that creatine is important across life stages: for brain development in youth, muscle development in adolescence, maintaining muscle and immune support in adults, preventing sarcopenia in the elderly, and particularly beneficial for peri-/postmenopausal women—citing an upcoming study reporting low-dose creatine improves brain fog, metabolism, mood, hot flashes, and fatigue.
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Is creatine for people like me, the postmenopausal women who want to maintain muscle. Like who's the ideal user for creatine first?
I'll take the last part first. Who's the ideal person for taking creatine? The CDC right now is looking at research to establish norms or suggestions for creatine supplementation for all age groups because they see that it's important for brain formation with youth or toddlers even certainly for muscle and skeletal muscle development in adolescence. It's extremely important for adults to maintain muscle mass throughout their life and also to support the immune system. Very important for the elderly to avoid or to stave off sarcopenia or muscle wasting which if they lose muscle, the elderly become fall risks. And that is a really negative quality of life turning point. And then as you just said, menopausal, perimenopausal, postmenopausal women, that's an extraordinarily important time for creatine ingestion or creatine supplementation. There will be a new study that is coming out who has demonstrated that low level creatine supplementation has dramatic benefits for women in that stage of life or in those stages of life in terms of brain fog, brain metabolism and neuron energy down regulation of many of the symptoms and mood and hot flashes and fatigue and such things.