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Why Dr. Rhonda Patrick started taking 10-20 grams of Creatine per day

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The claims about creatine's benefits for brain health and stress-related cognitive improvements are partially supported by evidence, but the suggested dosage is higher than typically recommended. While creatine may aid short-term memory and reasoning, the evidence for other cognitive benefits is less clear.

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Creatine is important for brain health and works well under stress, such as sleep deprivation.

There is moderate evidence that creatine can improve short-term memory and reasoning, particularly under stress, but its effects on other cognitive domains are unclear.

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10 grams of creatine daily is needed for brain benefits.

The typical dose for cognitive benefits is around 5000 mg, and while higher doses are within the safe range, they are not necessarily required for brain benefits.

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I'm finding now it's not just a gym bro supplement. It's hugely important for not just muscle health, but I think brain health. It seems as though creatine supplementation seems to work well in situations when there's a stress component in the brain. And that stress can be a variety of different factors. It can be sleep deprivation. It can be psychological stress. It can be my everyday life, which is cognitively demanding, reading studies, analyzing them, writing about them, right? Like that is a stress. How much creatine did you take today? Today I took 15 grams. Okay. A light day. Huh? A light day for traveling. Yeah, it is. I usually like, so typically I do 10 grams a day. That's my baseline. I used to do five grams a day. And then as this literature started to progress, I had Darren Kando on my podcast, and he was talking about some of his research. I became convinced that 10 grams is what's needed for brain benefits. And so I got myself and my family, including my mom, on 10 grams a day. So she's tossing the powder? She is. Yeah, she's tossing the powder. She's putting it in her coffee. Okay. And so 10 grams a day is usually what I do. Now, sleep deprivation, you know, there is some evidence out there. Again, creatine works well under a stressful situation for the brain, and sleep deprivation is like probably the prime example of that, right? Giving people 20 to 25 grams, depending on their body weight, seem to attenuate 21 hours. Yeah, a full night of sleep deprivation, essentially. So not only did it attenuate the cognitive deficits of sleep deprivation, it also seemed to bring their baseline up higher, like they were functioning better than normal if they weren't sleep deprived. Yeah. And there's other studies out there showing, again, that it's in the background of some kind of stress, like an all-nighter or an exam or something. Creatine supplementation seems to improve cognition in that respect. I have personally been doing it. Today I did 15 grams, only because I had all my travel packets, and then I had to give one to my mom, and then I had to give one to my husband. Anyways, I was like, you know, aliquoting them out. I typically do like 20 grams when I travel. I wasn't really sleep deprived last night, but this podcast, doing podcasts, is kind of a stressful thing on the brain. It's long duration, right? So I like to dose up in those instances. And the other thing I've noticed, just going up from five to 10, so I was doing five grams a day when I started lifting. I noticed that the 10 grams a day really took away the afternoon sleepiness. Oh, yeah. I mean, it was like, it's pretty night and day, because when I forget my creatine and I don't have it, or I go down just to five grams, I get sleepier.
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Why Dr. Rhonda Patrick started taking 10-20 grams of Creatine per day