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by insanitybit 22 days ago
The entire point is that >10G is justified if you're going for cognitive effects. For muscles you don't need to go above 5G. For brain, >15G.
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For now there are zero studies that I know of that support this.

The only ones are for sleep deprived.

There are a number of studies on the topic of varying quality but I think that's besides the point.

> It’s called a loading phase

This is not about a loading phase. "It's called a loading phase" indicates that the reason you would take high doses is for the muscular saturation that some people think is required. You're right that you can absolutely skip the loading phase, but that's not the point. The point is that you would take the higher dose for the cognitive effects.

Please give me a link to at least one study with verified cognitive benefits of high-intake creatine which is not for sleep-deprived case.
I'm not going to Google this for you, sorry! They're out there though.
Well, I did. Also with chatgpt agent to specifically go through pubmed and what have you.

The results were zero