#166 // Top-5 Reasons to Take Creatine (That Have Nothing to Do with Lifting)
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Creatine — it’s not just for gym rats. While it’s one of the most studied and effective supplements for strength and performance, new research suggests it might do a lot more. From heart health and healthy aging to cognitive function and mental health, creatine’s benefits go way beyond muscle. Today on Fitness Stuff for Normal People, Marianna and Tony break down what the science actually says and whether it’s something everyone should consider.
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(15:26) Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroprotection Against Age-Related Cognitive Decline
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| 0:00.0 | Creatine. Have you heard of her? Maybe not. It's not like we ever talk about it. Okay, maybe we do a little too much, but never in the context like we will today. |
| 0:11.5 | Creatine monohydrate is the single most studied, safe and effective supplement in existence at improving your strength and performance in the gym. |
| 0:18.9 | But it might be a lot more than that. |
| 0:21.6 | Over the past decade, more and more research keeps coming out showing that creatine might help benefit areas outside of the gym. |
| 0:28.6 | Things like your heart health, healthy aging, cognition, even depression and different aspects of your mental health. |
| 0:34.6 | It's a lot more than just muscle. And today, we are diving headfirst |
| 0:38.8 | into that research to see if this supplement is something that every single person, young or old, |
| 0:44.9 | male or female, works out or doesn't, should be taking. And we just crossed a huge milestone. |
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| 1:08.8 | If you want to join us over on Premium, it's just five bucks a month. And we'll put the sign up for that down in the show notes below. And if you like our podcast, and you haven't left us a little five-star review, given us a follow on whatever platform you are listening. It's one of the best ways to support us so we could just reach more and more people at the end of the day. And if you follow us, you will stay up to date on every new episode that we drop on Mondays. And before we get into that, |
| 1:33.2 | today's episode is brought to you by Legion Athletics, who offer you three different ways to |
| 1:40.1 | take your creatine. They have the standard powdered version, both flavored and unflavored. |
| 1:44.8 | But if you don't like that, they also have creatine in pill form and gummy form. |
| 1:49.7 | Because what you'll learn today is that to see all the benefits from creatine, |
| 1:53.2 | you have to be consistent with it. |
| 1:54.7 | And that's where different administration forms come in handy. |
| 1:58.1 | If you aren't super consistent, taking the powders because you only tend to mix them on days you work out, then pills or gummies can come in handy. If you aren't super consistent, taking the powders because you only tend to |
| 2:01.4 | mix them on days you work out, then pills or gummies can come in clutch. But whether you get your |
| 2:06.6 | creatine here or somewhere else, if you ever need to grab some of your staples, Legion is the gold |
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