Everyone’s Talking About Creatine, But Is it Bad For Your Kidneys? And Can It Help with Sleep?

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth. We know that a high-protein diet and creatine supplementation play a significant role in muscle composition and boosting overall energy levels. Yet, both are still often seen as things only "gym bros" need. In today’s short episode, Dhru explains why prioritizing protein and creatine is essential for health and longevity and can benefit most people. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru dives into the latest research from his Try This newsletter on high-protein diets and creatine. He shares insights from top experts on optimal intake and the benefits of both protein and creatine. Dhru also debunks common myths surrounding these topics and explains how he incorporates them into his own life. If you’re looking for a clear breakdown of the facts on protein and creatine, this episode is for you. In this episode, Dhru shares the latest research from his Try This Newsletter: Do high-protein diets cause kidney damage? (2:17) Older case studies vs. new research (6:34) Myths about creatine and high-protein diets (8:48) Optimal protein intake (10:23) Factors that impact kidney health (12:00) Common uses for creatine (15:00) Creatine’s role in mitigating sleep deprivation effects (15:36) Benefits of creatine (17:40) Also mentioned in this episode: Try This Newsletter Research showing creatine myths debunked Creatine for sleep deprivation study Momentous Creatine Promo Code DHRU for 20% off This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com/dhru and use code DHRUP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Drew Prote here.
0:01.5	So I don't know if you know this, but every Friday
0:04.8	for the last like three years, almost,
0:07.5	I put out a weekly newsletter, and it's completely free.
0:11.1	It's called Try This. I call it Try This because each week I feature an evidence-based protocol that you can take on that you can literally try. It's like a quick action item. It's a way that you could modify or make some swaps in your diet and I try to do my best to support it with the evidence and the individuals that I'm particularly learning from meaning I always show my homework and you can look at it and see if it's something that is worth you trying on
0:36.4	So today actually because so many of you even though we have thousands of people on this newsletter I did some stats and polling and I see that so
0:45.2	many of you are still not subscribed to this newsletter even though many people say
0:49.4	it's their favorite newsletter that they look forward to each week. So I thought today we do a little solo episode
0:55.1	where I shared a few topics recently that we went into,
0:58.9	topics that I think that many of you might have questions on
1:02.1	and are interested in because I get your
1:03.8	emails all the time and one of the first ones we're going to jump into without
1:07.6	further ado is the topic of high protein diets and can high protein diets and in particular creatine a supplement that so many people are talking about today and is actually the most researched supplement in the history of nutraceuticals that are out there and people are so
1:26.4	gangbusters excited about all the benefits but naturally along with it there's some old
1:31.9	beliefs or myths that are associated around
1:34.4	creatine and there's questions that a lot of people have. So I went looking around
1:38.2	to find some of the answers and I consolidated it in today's newsletter that I'm gonna
1:41.8	read out for you. By the way, every Friday, like Clockwork.
1:44.8	Me and my team, shout out to my sisters Kaya and Herschel,
1:48.0	who helped me with my newsletter.
1:49.2	We put out, try this, it's totally free.
1:51.6	The link is in the show notes, or if you want to sign up directly
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