Creatine — One of My Top Three Supplements

Creatine — one of my top three supplements I will not go without!

Walk in to any GNC store and you'll see literally thousand of vitamin / nutritional supplements claiming to provide all sorts of miraculous effects on the human body. The Nutritional supplement Industry has almost no regulations governing the content of the bottle as compared to what the label says is in it. You could fill capsules with sugar and sell it as the latest weight loss pill and you would not get in trouble for the contents, you could run afoul of false advertising claims but with some slick legal advice you could probably skirt that issue also.

So, I am extremely careful of what I put into my body, this is where the currently popular advice of DYOR, Do Your Own Research, becomes very important. All advertisements make whatever the product or service it is promoting sound amazing. As I learned from 10 years working on Wall Street.. bad,, uninspiring sales pitches do NOT sell! So every sales pitch sounds some shade of amazing. Caveat Emptor!

If you're not familiar with, or just recently heard of, Creatine let me give you some insights on the topic. Creatine is one of the most studied supplement on the market. There are in excess of 600 peer-reviewed clinical trials, according to Springer Nature, the National Institute of Health shows over 1,322 articles and reviews of the effects of creatine on the human body.

Here are a few benefits of taking creatine daily:

• Increased muscle mass and strength when creatine is combined with resistance training
• Increase in training volume
• Decrease recovery between sets
• Improved brain function especially during periods of stress, lack of sleep, high mental loads, depression even neurodegenerative diseases

Listen to Dr. Rhonda Patrick, a biomedical scientist, health educator, and anti-aging expert, discuss the positive effects of creatine and at what doses she is seeing these benefits.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this post I am very careful what I put into my body. I am not a foodie and have for most of my adult life viewed food as fuel, that's main purpose to make my body run as efficiently as possible for as long as possible….. in the pursuit for my maximum health span! I have a good friend who is an amazing high performance coach, entrepreneur, and all around great human being! He owned his own brand of protein powder until the supply chain disruptions of 2020 killed it. The point is he was meticulous in sourcing all natural, truly organic ingredients for his products. He is where I learned about this particular brand.

So that is why I recommend THORNE Creatine.