Science examines creatine's claimed benefits as US sales top half a billion dollars
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- Creatine, long sold as a muscle-building supplement, is now pitched to almost everyone as a booster of the mind and mood.
- Influencers, podcasters, and celebrity doctors claim it can sharpen thinking, lift mood, offset sleep deprivation, and reverse Alzheimer's effects.
- US sales of creatine topped half a billion dollars in 2025.
- A video published on 2026-11-12 examined what research shows about creatine's effects, from the muscles to the mind.
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- Exercise scientist Nick Tiller and University of Kansas associate professor Matthew Taylor, whose team studied creatine in people with Alzheimer's, were interviewed about the research.
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A Vox video by Dolly Li and Gina Pollack examines what research shows about creatine, once sold to fitness buffs for muscle building and now pitched to almost everyone, with US sales topping half a billion dollars in 2025. Its makers spoke with exercise scientist Nick Tiller and with University of Kansas professor Matthew Taylor, whose team studied creatine in people with Alzheimer's, while influencers, podcasters, and celebrity doctors claim the supplement can sharpen the mind, lift mood, offset sleep deprivation, and reverse Alzheimer's effects.
