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Creatine: Much More Than a White Powder!
A Battery for Your Brain!
It was 2018… and like any fitness enthusiast, I was there to buy protein powder. The salesman, a muscular man around 30, gave me a sideways glance when I asked for creatine. “Are you sure? That’s more for people who want to bulk up,” he said, pointing to his own biceps. Little did he know I was taking creatine not for my muscles, but for my brain.
The story of creatine is fascinating, not just for its journey from “bodybuilding supplement” to “essential brain nutrient,” but mainly because it represents one of the biggest paradigm shifts in our understanding of nutritional supplementation in recent decades. And, ironically, women — traditionally steered away from this supplement — might be its biggest beneficiaries.
When I began investigating this topic more deeply, I discovered something shocking: women have, on average, 70–80% less creatine stored in their bodies compared to men. This fact alone should have set off every alarm in the medical community years ago. How did we ignore this for so long?
