Sports Nutrition
Sports nutrition research is unusually rigorous compared to general wellness content, which makes it a good place to test specific, falsifiable claims — creatine safety, protein timing around training, performance supplements that have actual trial support and ones that don’t.
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Creatine for Non-Athletes
Daily creatine monohydrate supplementation, historically a strength-athlete staple, now marketed broadly for general health, cognition, and healthy aging in people who don't lift competitively at all.
Pure hype
Lives up to it
"You can't build muscle after age 30"
Resistance training builds meaningful muscle mass and strength well into older age — the rate slows somewhat, but the capacity doesn't disappear at 30.
Myth