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If you're on dialysis, taking 5 grams of creatine every day for a year might add about three-quarters of a liter of water inside your cells, which could help you gain lean body mass.
Taking creatine every day for a year doesn’t help improve nutrition or reduce inflammation in people on dialysis, according to this claim.
If you're on dialysis, taking a creatine supplement every day for a year might help your muscles hold more water and get bigger, and most people in the study saw some benefit.
Taking a creatine supplement every day might help kidney dialysis patients gain more muscle and fight muscle loss over time.
Taking a creatine supplement every day might help kidney patients on dialysis keep more muscle mass over time.
Insulin and exercise help muscles take in a type of amino acid even without using the cell's usual sodium-potassium pump, suggesting they use a different route to get nutrients in.
When muscles are resting, they need a specific cellular pump to bring in a type of nutrient, but when they're active—like during exercise or after insulin kicks in—they use a totally different method...
Giving healthy adults normal levels of certain hormones like GLP-1 and insulin — either alone or together — doesn't change how stiff their main artery is over about two and a half hours.
When healthy adults get infusions of two hormones—GLP-1 or insulin—each one widens a major arm artery and boosts blood flow by about 30%. But when both are given together, they don’t widen the artery...
When healthy adults get both GLP-1 and insulin at the same time, it doesn’t boost blood flow to their heart or muscles any more than using just one of the hormones alone.
When healthy adults get a controlled dose of insulin for two hours, it boosts blood flow and blood volume in their heart and muscle tissues, helping more nutrients move between blood and muscles.
When healthy adults get a specific dose of a hormone called GLP-1 through an IV, it quickly boosts blood flow in the small vessels of their heart and muscles, helping deliver more nutrients and...
Two different creatine transporters are found in different parts of the body— one is mostly in the kidney and eye, the other in the brain, heart, and muscles— which probably means they do different...
Rats without a certain gene spill more creatine in their pee, which means that gene probably helps their kidneys recycle creatine.
A person with cataracts had a rare gene change that might make it harder for their cells to take in creatine, based on lab tests.
There's a second protein in the body, called MCT12, that can carry creatine into cells — kind of like a backup delivery truck. Unlike the main one, it doesn’t need salt or other chemicals to work,...
In sea creatures like clams and snails, a special protein helps control how much taurine gets in and out of their cells when the salt levels around them change — this helps the cells stay healthy and...
Taurine helps shellfish like clams and mussels keep their immune systems balanced and working well when they're stressed by things like pollution or changing water conditions.
Taurine helps protect sea snails and clams from stress caused by dirty water or pollution by acting like an internal shield against cell damage.
Marine molluscs, like clams and snails, rely on a substance called taurine to help their cells stay the right size when the saltiness of the water around them changes — kind of like how a sponge...
Giving certain fish extra potassium and taurine in their food might help them handle salty water better by reducing stress in their gills and liver.
When tilapia fish are raised in salty water that's low in potassium, adding taurine to their food seems to boost certain genes in their gills that help manage water and salt levels — but giving them...
If you're raising a special kind of tilapia in slightly salty water that's low in potassium, they need a bit more potassium in their food—about 0.57 to 0.60 grams per 100 grams of food—to grow well...
Giving extra potassium in their food helps farmed tilapia handle salty water better, reduces stress on their gills, and saves energy — and 0.6% potassium in the feed works best.