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How much are you taking?

• girvo 9mo ago
  5 grams a day, personally, based on a large body of evidence that it is a good amount.
  • nandomrumber 9mo ago
    > personally You’re not having someone else take it for you?
• derektank 9mo ago
  Second anecdote, I take between 10 and 15 grams. I don’t experience cognitive effects at lower doses (though my weightlifting endurance is still higher on lower doses). I also don’t eat meat so don’t have any incidental consumption
  • amelius 9mo ago
    What are the cognitive effects?
    • derektank 9mo ago
      I experience mental exhaustion more infrequently (the head aching midafternoon slump) and symptoms are reduced
  • matwood 9mo ago
    That seems like a lot to take daily. Most studies have settled on loading isn’t needed and 5g/day is enough. I just take 5g/day with my morning coffee/water.
    • nomel 9mo ago
      > I also don’t eat meat This is probably an important difference from the average participant of those studies.
      • matwood 9mo ago
        Meat is one of the primary sources of dietary creatine, but still provides overall very little (~2g/pound of uncooked red meat). There isn't much to make up for in a non-meat eater and the 5g should still be fine.
    • canucker2016 9mo ago
      Most creatine studies focus on the effects of creatine on physical activity, especially wrt resistance training. Rhonda Patrick has made several YouTube videos about creatine and you can find more information about creatine at her website - https://www.foundmyfitness.com/topics/creatine https://www.foundmyfitness.com/topics/creatine. One of her creatine videos mentions that your muscles will take up ingested creatine faster than the brain. So for any creatine to make its way to the brain, your muscular creatine stores must be topped up first. I think dosage would depend on the amount of daily physical activity. If you work out a lot, you'd have to replenish your muscular creatine stores before the brain could access any/much. She also mentions boosting creatine dosage after bouts of mental exertion.
      • wongarsu 9mo ago
        To add another data point, a 2024 study [1] on the mental effects of single doses of creatine was using 0.35g/kg of creatinemonohydrate, or about 28g for a typical adult male. Though obviously high doses are safer if you just do them once And an earlier 2018 article [2] argued that "Evidence suggests that the blood–brain barrier is an obstacle for circulating cre- atine, which may require larger doses and/or longer protocols to increase brain creatine as compared to muscle. In fact, the broad spectrum of creatine sup plementation studies that span different dosing pr- tocols (e.g. high-dose short-term, low dose longer- term), co-ingestion of other nutrients/compounds (e.g. carbohydrate, protein, insulin), different popu lations (e.g. vegetarians, elderly, patients, athletes) is unavailable for brain creatine adaptations" 1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54249-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54249-9 2: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruno-Gualano/publication/326894269_Beyond_muscle_the_effects_of_creatine_supplementation_on_brain_creatine_cognitive_processing_and_traumatic_brain_injury/links/5b6c6381a6fdcc87df70164c/Beyond-muscle-the-effects-of-creatine-supplementation-on-brain-creatine-cognitive-processing-and-traumatic-brain-injury.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruno-Gualano/publicati...
    • yourusername 9mo ago
      If you're taking your coffee hot wouldn't that denaturate the creatine?