I happen to be one of those guys that does my best proofreading of emails after I already hit send.

And I guess the same thing is true when I listen back to some of my podcasts and episodes I did,

like the first one on creatine. Not that I think I said anything wrong, but there were certainly

some things I should have said up front that are important.

And one is that I don't take care of kids, so I'm not a pediatrician, and I'm an internal

medicine doctor, and so when I talk about things like supplements, I really am only speaking

of them in terms of adults.

The other thing is that when I talk about supplements or medications, in my mind, there's only

four options that exist.

It's either bad for your health, it's either good for your health, it's neutral for your

health, or it's a mix of being good for some things and bad for other aspects of your

health.

So that last category where there's some good and some

bad defines nearly every single medication that I prescribe, and I assume with supplements there's

always going to be a little bit of negative with the positive, and sometimes more negative than there is positive.

And with creatine, I suppose any of the four can happen. I talked about in the last episode

where there are people that are neutral, meaning there's some people that take it and they just

don't respond to creatine. Now, I think there's probably a few reasons for that. Probably there

is a genetic component. I think then there's other people who may have a lot of creatine in their

diet. They're a very heavy meat eaters. So taking an extra supplement of creatine really isn't

going to change things for them. And then I think there's a lot of people who are just not on the right diet and

exercise plan where taking something like creatine is going to have an impact one way or the other.

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