Creatine Myths: Hair Loss, Bloating, Dosing, and More

The Stronger By Science Podcast

Stronger By Science

Strength, Muscle, Eric Trexler, Supplements, Powerlifting, Comedy, Bodybuilding, Physique, Stronger By Science, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Strength Sports, Nutrition, Greg Nuckols, Evidence-based Fitness, Weightlifting

4.6 • 950 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Summary

Does creatine cause hair loss? What about bloating? In this episode, Greg and Lyndsey bust myths and misconceptions about creatine, one of the most popular supplements on the market. Greg also explains how creatine actually works to increase muscle growth and discusses myths related to creatine dosing (is 5g per day enough?). Then, they play a few listener calls about creatine and answer questions about creatine's impact on individual genetic potential for muscularity, different forms of creatine, and the interaction between caffeine and creatine.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Stronger by Science Podcast. I'm Greg and I'm Lindsay and thank you once again for joining us today and just up here at the top I would like to express quite a bit of gratitude for the
0:25.1	positive response we got to our recent episode on Asper tame but I also want to note that you should not expect that again definitely anytime soon probably ever
0:38.6	It was a close to six hour long episode and it almost put us in the grave. And in fact that was just a hazing ritual.
0:48.0	Lindsay is the new co-host of the show and yeah just wanted to see if she could tolerate that type of
0:56.5	marathon recording session and she did so barely.
1:01.7	Barely yeah just as a little peak behind the scenes we sat down to record it at what like 830 or so yeah and we finished yeah yeah like 830 p.m and we finished at close to 3 a.m. Yeah, like 8.30 p.m. and we finished at close to 3 a.m. Yeah. Yeah, not not doing that again.
1:19.4	Took one break and maybe about three hours in.
1:23.0	Yeah, yeah, but I do think that it's probably good
1:27.0	with with Eric and I previously.
1:31.0	We had a rough idea of kind of length of outline to length of
1:35.4	episode ratio and you know there's a calibration period just to figure out how that works.
1:44.0	Yeah, I've never done this at all before.
1:46.8	That was my second podcast episode ever,
1:49.0	like, and I've never been on a podcast before,
1:52.3	before doing this so I tend to over prepare when I'm not
1:58.7	comfortable yet with a medium and I certainly did that and I knew I was doing it and yet I couldn't stop myself and we ended up with a six hour episode but I feel like I you know I've proven to myself and maybe to the audience that I can do this and certainly
2:18.0	to me as well I hope to not do that again though yeah I mean just just being completely transparent looking at the outline I thought that we were
2:26.0	probably staring down about three or four hours yeah I thought about four yeah like five
2:30.4	and a half six like that that honestly surprised me a lot as well yeah but we did it but yeah all
2:37.8	of which is to say we certainly appreciate everyone who listened to the whole episode.
2:43.4	It was a lot of content.
2:44.8	I thought it was good content.
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