Everything You Need To Know About Creatine

Video Transcript:

Here's everything you need to know about creatine simply explained. Now I want you to watch until the end of this video because I'm going to tell you a few things about creatine that you may not know that could really have an impact on your performance and health.

So what is creatine exactly? Well creatine is a natural compound found in Meat and Fish so if you consume either of those things, congratulations you're already a creatine consumer.

But here's the catch. To get any of the benefits from creatine from a dietary perspective you'd have to eat about 20 steaks a day! Say hello to a Brazilian steakhouse and the meat sweats.

So that is why they make creatine in supplemental form which is a combination of the ingredients cyanamide and N methyl glycine. Now those ingredients sound really dodgy but I assure you they are safe.

Let's talk about next how creatine works. So when you consume Creatine it is stored as creatine phosphate in the muscles, the brain, and a part I won't mention because I'll probably get flagged for a pornographic video boun chick a wow wow.

But let's talk about what it does in the muscles and to understand that we have to understand a little science of energy production so stick with me here.

So when you exercise a compound known as ATP is broken down to form energy. When it is broken down a phosphate group is cleaved off ATP and you're left with ADP.

Now here's where the the creatine comes in. Creatine phosphate donates a phosphate group to ADP to reform ATP so creatine essentially rapidly replenishes ATP or energy.

What about the benefits of creatine? Man oh man they are a ton of them. It has been shown to be safe and effective at increasing strength, power, and endurance.

It has some awesome cognitive effects and it also act as a hyper hydrator because when you consume Creatine it kind of brings an influx of water into the cells.

Now who should be taking creatine? Well pretty much everybody...strength athletes, endurance athletes, hybrid athletes, it is especially beneficial for vegetarians since they don't have meat in their diet and for an older population.

Next let's move on to dose and it can be a little different here. So a typical creatine dose say for a purely strength athlete is five grams daily and this will saturate muscle creatine stores in about 20 to 28 days.

Now previously they've talked about doing creatine five grams five times a day and this will load creatin stores faster but it is not necessary.

If you are a hybrid athlete or more of an endurance athlete I would recommend sticking with three grams daily. Now why is this? Well with this dose you'll get most of the benefits of creatine without the associated weight gain.

Where can you find Creatine? Well creatine can be found in oLOADED product and I dosed this one at three grams per serving because it's designed more for the kind of endurance hybrid athletes. If you are a strength athlete you can always double up the dose.

That is all I have on Creatine today. Take home point...creatine is an awesome supplement, safe, effective, research validated and a supplement I recommend pretty much everyone take.