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Creatine and Muscle Growth
There are other like mechanisms by which creatine could influence muscle growth. The direct effects on phospho creatine and exercise capacity are only one of the five things listed. Most of the other things are things that are kind of like more known to be like directly related to hypertrophy. And so I, I think that's the primary thing that create doing creating also might decrease myostatin levels. Do you know about myostatin lins? I feel like you did. Perfect. That's cool. Yeah. Just like you now have the capacity to do it. Right. Okay. So yeah, I Think that's kind of what's going on. Got a question for us? Call
Does creatine cause hair loss? What about bloating? In this episode, Greg and Lyndsey bust myths and misconceptions about creatine, one of the most popular supplements on the market. Greg also explains how creatine actually works to increase muscle growth and discusses myths related to creatine dosing (is 5g per day enough?). Then, they play a few listener calls about creatine and answer questions about creatine's impact on individual genetic potential for muscularity, different forms of creatine, and the interaction between caffeine and creatine.
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Intro (0:00)
What’s on your mind/bright spots: Love Island (3:23)
Recommendations and plugs (8:30)
Creatine Introduction (10:49)
History of Creatine (17:56)
Creatine and hair loss introduction (38:39)
Background information on DHT (40:48)
Discussion of the study everyone cites to support the idea that creatine causes hair loss (44:35)
The key thing everyone misses when discussing the creatine/DHT study: serum DHT is irrelevant to the physiology of androgenic alopecia (54:21)
Potential physiological explanations for increased scalp DHT production and hair loss (1:04:09)
Known effects of creatine on the actual causes of hair loss (1:29:40)
Why do so many people think that creatine causes hair loss in the first place? (1:38:00)
How creatine actually works to increase muscle growth (1:48:31)
The idea that creatine doesn’t actually cause bloating (and only causes fluid retention in the muscles) is probably incorrect (2:04:01)
Myth related to creatine dosing: the typical recommendation of 5g/day is not enough creatine for serious lifters (2:15:34)
Question 1: does creatine raise the limits of muscularity that you can achieve, or does it just lead to slightly faster progress toward the same limit? (2:38:01)
Question 2: is it worth experimenting with other forms of creatine? (2:40:28)
Question 3: do caffeine and creatine have inhibitory effects on each other? (2:46:51)
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