Paper out now on creatine and cognitive performance
Our paper “The effects of creatine supplementation on cognitive performance—a randomised controlled study” is out now!
→ Paper: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03146-5
→ Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/FabienneSand/status/1726196252747165718?t=qPUghyDGMUb0-FZK7CEXhw&s=19
Jan Brauner and I are very thankful to Paul Christiano for suggesting doing this study and for funding it.
Thanks for doing this study! I’m glad that people are doing RCTs on creatine with more subjects. (Also, I didn’t know that vegetarians had similar amounts of brain creatine as omnivores, which meant I would’ve incorrectly guessed that vegetarians benefit more than omnivores from creatine supplementation).
Here’s the abstract of the paper summarizing the key results and methodology:
Note that the effect size is quite small:
Awesome work! I’d be interested in seeing a similar study done on nicotine. It’s hard to sift through the bias against it due to its association with tobacco use. I find consistent creatine use, along with nicotine and caffeine during intense work sprints, to be great.