Summary
Can creatine boost your body and mind?
Listener Simon has been taking the fitness supplement creatine and wants to know if the science backs up the claim that it can make you stronger and faster. He's also heard that it can help with cognitive function. To find out if creatine can boost body and mind, presenter Greg Foot is joined by Graeme Close, Professor of Physiology at Liverpool John Moores University and Fabienne Sandkuhler, postdoctoral researcher at LMU Munich.
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| 1:01.7 | Great to be here. Tell us what you'd like us to investigate today. I'd be really interested |
| 1:05.8 | for you to investigate creatine. At the moment, I'm training quite hard. I'm trying to get as fit as I can |
| 1:10.7 | by my 40th. I'm 37 at the moment. I'm seeing all kinds of health claims about how creatine could help me towards that. Are you taking creatine at the moment? Yes, I am. I've been taking it for a few months now. In what form? What brands have you seen? So I started on the tablets from bulk, which I found quite difficult to take. You have to take five of them and they're quite large. And I'm now using powder called Crea Pure, which I just sprinkle on my breakfast. Right, okay. You can also get your creatine in gummies. That's something that I want to return to later. And what sort of exercise are you doing? I'm doing strength training about twice a week and cardio training generally through high |
| 1:47.0 | intensity interval training about twice a week. |
| 1:49.0 | And then I also enjoy kayaking and hiking. |
| 1:51.0 | Wonderful. That sounds great. |
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