How to Get the Most Out of Creatine | Darren Candow PhD

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (0:02)
Welcome to The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent conversations. Thank you Welcome to The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show. In today's episode, I sit down with Dr. Darren Candow, PhD. He's a professor, and he's specialized in aging, muscle and bone health. In fact, he has a whole lab dedicated to it. The overall objectives of Dr. Candow's research program are to develop effective lifestyle interventions involving nutrition, primarily creatine monohydrate, and physical activity, no surprise, resistance training, which have practical and clinical relevance for improving properties of muscle, bone and brain health and function. Dr. Candow has published over 125 peer-reviewed journal manuscripts. He has supervised over 20 masters and PhD students. The list goes on and on. He is an absolute pioneer, and he wants to make the world a better, stronger place in a way that is applicable to you at home listening. In this episode, we cover everything about creatine. We talk about specific dosing protocols. We discuss who should use creatine and the newest research around creatine monohydrate and brain function.
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**Darren Candow** (5:04)
Thank you for having me. I'm really excited to be here and honored and super excited to talk about everything that's creatine.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (5:10)
Well, first of all, tell me a little bit about yourself and where you are in the world and what you're doing because you've been certainly studying creatine for quite some time now.

**Darren Candow** (5:18)
Yeah, actually, I'm in British Columbia, Canada right now, but my university is in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, a couple of provinces over.
And God, I guess I've been doing this now for two decades. And I think creatine has kind of taken on a new life of its own. We'll probably talk about why that is and why it's probably not just for athletes anymore. I think everybody on the planet could at least consider it. So lots to talk about and I think it's more the health aspect. So very excited.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (5:46)
And first of all, what inspired you to begin focusing on creatine? Because that's quite niche. There's only, I would say, if we look in the literature, maybe there's, and correct me, 10 people, that 10 or maybe 15 if we were lucky, that truly look at creatine and its impact on muscle, brain, bone, etc.