Topic
Creatine
The naturally occurring compound found in meat and seafood, widely used as a sports supplement and increasingly studied for cognitive and mental health effects.
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Darren Candow says UFC fighters should look at creatine before getting hit because rodent studies show faster concussion recovery
The creatine researcher’s boldest claim was not about bigger lifts, it was about whether the gym’s most boring powder might belong in the fight camp brain-protection kit.
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Darren Candow says elevated kidney markers from creatine are false positives 99 out of 100 times
The creatine researcher says the supplement’s scariest reputation is mostly a lab-test misunderstanding, not kidney damage.
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Creatine researcher Stuart Phillips says adding 5 grams of creatine to antidepressants doubled remission rates in women with major depression over 8 weeks
The muscle supplement has a surprisingly strong case for your brain, but one number from a Utah depression trial is the one worth arguing about.