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#141 - "Creatine Monohydrate: Exercise, Sport, and Health Applications" with Professor Darren Candow

We Do Science - The Sports Nutrition Podcast

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The Effects of Age on Muscle Growth

There is no young sex difference in muscle, there is none. But we start to see it the fourth decade, leading into the fifth and subsequent over time,. We start to lose type two or the large muscle fibers that a lot of power events really rely on Or weight lifting things like that. Once we start losing these big muscle fibers, ironically, creatine is found primarily in your type two muscle fibers. And then when you get 50, 60 all the way up to centurions, the inflammation is elevated polycosmidochondri.

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