What's up folks? Welcome back. Whoop podcast. We sit down with the best of the best,

athletes, researcher, scientists, more, learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop. We're on a mission to unlock human performance.

Before we dive in today, I want to highlight our upcoming January jumpstart challenge.

Through this in-app challenge, our members can kick off the new year by focusing on their

health and fitness goals, sign up before December 28th, and the challenge begins on January

1st. This week's episode, our fearless

whoop VP of performance science, our principal scientist, Kristen Holmes, is joined by Dr. Darren

Kandau. Darren is professor and director of the aging muscle and bone health laboratory in the faculty of kinesiology and health studies

at the University of Regina Canada. In addition, Dr. Kandau serves on the editorial review boards

for the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, Advanced Exercise, and Health Sciences.

He has published over 125 peer-reviewed journal manuscripts.

Kristen and Darren discuss creatine's role within the body.

The best ways to get creatine both naturally and through supplements.

The benefits of taking creatine.

He touches on how it can help neurological function as well as sleep.

How creatine can impact bone

health and aging. Some of the biggest myths around creatine, it's not a steroid and anyone can take it.

And some of the creatine research Darren is obsessing over. If you have a question was answered on

the podcast, email us, podcast whoop.com. Call us 508443-4952. Without further ado, here are

Kristen Holmes and Dr. Darren Kandau. Dr. Kandau, welcome. Thank you for having me.

I'm so pumped for you to give us a rundown of all the ways literally every human on the planet

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