Creatine supplementation increases memory performance, study finds

[geox]

https://www.psypost.org/creatine-supplementation-increases-memory-performance-study-finds/

[freitzkriesler2]

I remember reading something about this back in the 2010s. I have several friends who were vegans and one telling me he was struggling with a decline in being able to remember small details like addresses and numbers.

With that I told him to start supplementing creatine monohydrate to see if it helped. Sure enough, it did. He is a whip smart coder so he was worried something worse was happening. He now eats eggs and fish

Unfortunately, I don't think the vegan diet is good long term because of this.

[steve1977 → freitzkriesler2]

A vegan diet is not a natural diet for humans, so that only makes sense.

[freitzkriesler2 → steve1977]

Agreed 100%

[steve1977]

Nothing new really. Also, it’s not really this study that found this, it‘s the original studies that this meta study is based on. Are people in academia actually still doing original research? (sorry for the rant)

[karmakurtisaani → steve1977]

Meta studies are more useful than "original research" in aggregating known results. They are the ones that laypeople should be interested in.

[steve1977 → karmakurtisaani]

They can also very easily be used to get one or the other desired outcome based on inclusion criteria.

[karmakurtisaani → steve1977]

Just like any other research. I'm assuming good faith and some sort of quality control in this context. If you can't assume that, then you can't really trust any research.

[freitzkriesler2 → steve1977]

Sadly no and that is my rant about academia these days also.

I remember reading a primary study about this back in the 2010s. I didn't RTFA and they probably call upon the study I'm thinking of.

[Engineering-MD]

But seemingly not “young people” more for 66+ according to break down.