Hello everybody and welcome to Ben Kumba Radio. So you're here with me Tom

I'm the usual co-host but Ben has asked me to do a short show for you today on

creatine. Now as the BTN Academy Manager and of course the co-host of this

podcast I exist in what I refer to as the nutrition space.

And because of this people ask me a lot of questions about nutrition and when they do, they tend to ask me about a few different themes and one of the primary ones is supplementation.

And if people are going to ask about supplementation, they're probably going to ask about

the most commonly used one and that's creating. So this means that I've got a big list of

frequently asked questions about creatine I know at least some of you will be

thinking about or will be thinking to ask or maybe you haven't thought of them yet but you don't

know the answer to the questions anyway and so what I want to do is I want to run through this list of

frequently asked questions so that by the end of this podcast you know everything you need to know about

creating supplementation in order to be able to make a decision about whether you want to

use it or not. So without any further preamble, let's crack on. So the first

question that people ask which is extremely sensible is, well what is creating in the first

place? You don't want to start using a supplement that you don't even

when you don't even know what it is. So we'll cover that first. Well, creatine is a

naturally occurring substance comprised of amino acids. So it's made of the same things that proteins are made of.

It's slightly different to the proteins that we consume in our diet and the ones that we think

about, but it is basically a protein. It's found within the muscle cells of living animals.

So you'll find creatine in the muscles of fish. I believe creating was initially discovered

or isolated from either rabbits or hairs.

I might be slightly wrong there, but it's found in rabbits and hairs and that's been studied.

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