
#453: Nick Gant, PhD – Cognitive Performance: Impact of Caffeine, Nicotine & Creatine (Rebroadcast)
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Neuronal Damage in Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury
Concussion or traumatic brain injury means that this rescue of energy availability by creatine would be effective what it was actually happening with these tbi's yeah sure. When when you get the concussion most people rapidly recover within the first couple of weeks but those that are mild and don't are typically associated with a substantial amount of organic damage. So we were looking for a way that could support active recovery so what the creatine does of course is provides a substrate that's there in the neuron does not require oxygen and does not produce any waste product that needs to be produced.
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