Why Women Over 40 Should Consider Creatine: The Midlife Muscle and Mind Boost You Didn’t Know You Needed
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Creatine isn’t just for gym bros and bodybuilders, it’s one of the most researched, safest, and most effective supplements for supporting strength, energy, and brain health.
In this episode, I break down a brand-new study that found women in perimenopause and menopause who took a small daily dose of creatine saw faster reaction times, better cholesterol levels, and even a 16% increase in brain creatine.
We’ll cover:
💪 Why creatine matters for women over forty
⚡ What ATP is, and how creatine helps your body make more of it
🧠 What the latest science says about brain and bone health
🥄 How much to take, which form works best, and when to use it
✅ My own four-year experience with daily creatine use (and what I’ve learned through The EC Method with Emma Storey-Gordon and Chloe Madeley)
Whether you’re in perimenopause, postmenopause, or simply want to age stronger, this is your guide to understanding one of the most underrated supplements out there.
🎧 Listen now, and discover why one small scoop could make a big difference.
This is the Creatine Monohydrate I take.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Nutrients (2025): “The Effects of 8-Week Creatine Hydrochloride and Creatine Ethyl Ester Supplementation on Cognition, Clinical Outcomes, and Brain Creatine Levels in Perimenopausal and Menopausal Women (CONCRET-MENOPA).
- The EC Method with Emma Storey-Gordon and Chloe Madeley
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of The Emmer Gunn Show and one where we will be talking about |
| 0:14.1 | why you need to be taking creatine, especially if you're over 40. Okay? You ready for this? You must be because |
| 0:23.4 | creatine is a supplement that everyone is talking about right now. It is everywhere. I have a feeling |
| 0:28.8 | it is going to reach critical mass. It is going to be, we are going to see it appear on the market |
| 0:34.9 | in so many different forms because it has now been recognized. After |
| 0:39.5 | decades, I have to say, of research, stuff that's been known for a really long time, but it has |
| 0:45.1 | become now the thing that everybody is focused on. And I wanted to talk a little bit about |
| 0:50.1 | why that is in this episode and also explain the benefits of taking it. I take it. |
| 0:55.5 | I advocate for other people to take it because I think, as I said, it's so well researched. |
| 1:01.5 | And so I just thought we get into it because if you don't know much about creatine, |
| 1:05.9 | which I wouldn't blame you if you didn't, you may be familiar with it because you see it next to the big, |
| 1:13.1 | big buckets of protein powder in shops like Holland and Barrett, the health food store, |
| 1:18.5 | anywhere that contains protein powders and any kind of protein bar, anything like that. So you would |
| 1:23.4 | be completely forgiven for thinking that Queerin is something for gym bros because it |
| 1:29.8 | usually sits next to or within a category of products that is about muscle building and that is |
| 1:35.9 | an outdated idea because there was a brand new study published in nutrients this August that looked |
| 1:42.5 | at women in perimenopause and menopause |
| 1:44.9 | who took a small daily dose of creatine, which was just one and a half grams for eight weeks. |
| 1:51.0 | Now, this study in particular used creatine hydrochloride, which is important. We'll come on to that in a minute. |
| 1:56.1 | But it was one and a half grams for eight weeks. They saw faster reaction times, healthier cholesterol |
| 2:01.5 | levels, and even a boost in brain creatin. Now that's a huge shift in how we think about this |
| 2:07.7 | supplement. It's gone from being something that can pump up your muscles. Again, we'll come back |
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