Why I Don't Take Creatine

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]just since you're here and you're like such a strong guy. Okay. [laughter] I'm wondering because my best because I I've been thinking about like I did get on creatine. I kind of slowed it down. I picked it back up. But I heard from somewhere that it can build muscle like 33% faster. As someone who's just absolutely shredded, you probably do creatine. Like don't >> Well, to make assumptions.

[00:00:17]>> Yeah. I mean, I just thought everyone was taking it to be honest.

[00:00:20]>> Everyone's [laughter] on this.

[00:00:21]>> Everyone's on it.

[00:00:22]>> Is it not?

[00:00:23]>> You don't take creatine.

[00:00:24]>> No, I don't take creatine. If you eat a lot of meat, you already have a ton of creatine in it. But I I if you look up the data, like creatine, you should be taking 5 milligrams per day. And if you like you have to eat so much meat in order to get that much.

[00:00:35]>> So have you have you ever seen like the midwip memes where it's like the IQ where it's like the the dummy and then like the middle guy and then like the guy at the end. Yeah. At the very end.

[00:00:44]>> A lot of stuff in fitness is like that.

[00:00:46]>> That makes a lot of sense.

[00:00:47]>> So it's like pick the right parents, eat protein, uh lift progressively heavier weight. And then you're like set schemes, red schemes, blah blah blah.

[00:00:55]And it's like pick the right parents, like eat protein, lift more weight over time.

[00:00:59]>> Have you ever gotten your testosterone checked? Of course you have.

[00:01:01]>> Yeah, I had actually recently.

[00:01:03]>> What's your testosterone?

[00:01:04]>> It was 124.

[00:01:05]>> 124?

[00:01:06]>> Yeah, super 124. I thought it goes up to like a thousand.

[00:01:09]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:01:09]>> Isn't 500?

[00:01:10]>> 300 to 1,000 is the like recommended range. I'm below the recommended range.

[00:01:14]>> How How is that even physically possible?

[00:01:16]>> I've always been low. The highest reading I've ever had is 270.

[00:01:19]>> You eat lots of soy? That >> That makes no sense cuz I see that like the beard and the muscle. Don't you have to have the deep voice?

[00:01:26]>> Like you have to have more testosterone.

[00:01:28]>> You can be androgen sensitive. I can be very sensitive to androgen. Some people are not sensitive at all. So it's like if you add testosterone to your system like you, somebody will get a significantly higher response than other people. And so you have, you know, genetic potential from parents, but you also have just like how responsive you are to anabolic hormones in general.

[00:01:44]Like some of the big because we the Olympia just happened for bodybuilding like this last week. A lot of those guys, some of them, some of the the genetic factors that they have are just that their body is just more responsive to anabolics than other people. And so like you can just be more androgen sensitive. So like you need less you need less testosterone to make the same muscle. And so like those ranges are they're arbitrary. They're completely arbitrary. Now if you are below that, you know, 300 and I'm not going to get into science stuff. Everyone don't listen to me. So I put that as my disclaimer. But if you're, you know, below 300, but you're not suffering from low testosterone issues, like you don't have erectile dysfunction, you don't have like issues getting out of bed in the morning, you're not depressed, you're not moody, you're like, you're you pretty much just like you don't have like, you know, supremely low muscle mass compared to normal men, then you're probably just Androive and it's fine.

[00:02:32]>> Wow.

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