Taking creatine might help your memory, but whether you take a little or a lot, for a few days or a few months, or whether you're male or female, doesn’t seem to change how much it helps your memory.

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Effects of creatine supplementation on memory in healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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2023 Mar 10

This study looked at whether taking different amounts of creatine, for different lengths of time, or being male or female changed how well creatine helps memory — and found it didn’t. So, no matter how you take it, creatine helps memory about the same way in healthy people.

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Effects of creatine supplementation on memory in healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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DOI: 10.1093/nutrit/nuac064

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