Beyond exercise: creatine’s growing role in brain, bone and women’s health

About this episode

This episode explores the emerging research on creatine's benefits for brain and bone health, particularly for women.

Creatine is one of the most well-researched and effective sports nutrition supplements for improving exercise performance. But that isn’t what I’m going to talk about in this podcast episode. Instead, I want to give the spotlight to creatine’s new moment in the sun thanks to evolving research linking it to improving brain and bone health. And then tying all this together, I’ll profile why it may just be one supplement that women could especially benefit from over men during their reproductive...

Topics covered

• creatine
• brain health
• bone health
• women's health
• sports nutrition

Keywords

• exercise performance
• nutrition supplements
• reproductive health

Mentioned in this episode

Products: creatine

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