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It’s always been popular among athletes and weight lifters but now nootropic influencers have gotten ahold of it. It’s one of the few supplements with robust scientific evidence of a strong effect but that’s in athletic performance not nootropics.

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and that scientific evidence is new? like a new study boosted this or just resurfacing?

No, creatine has been studied for decades and it’s been part of fads before (I remember Mac making a joke about creatine shits in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia a decade ago).

It’s just resurfacing as a general health fad/marketing campaign.

another upside is its also hella cheap so its a very easy addin

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