Plain-English Summary
Creatine monohydrate has one of the strongest supplement evidence bases for high-intensity exercise and training adaptation. The review supports a broad safety boundary in healthy people while still distinguishing consumer use from medical treatment claims.
VV Study Evidence Matrix v1.0
VV Evidence Utility Score
A bounded score for how useful this study is in public explanation, based on evidence tier, design, applicability, endpoint relevance, limitations, safety signals, and publication/source strength.
72/100
Useful Public Evidence
- Evidence tier
- 78/100, weight 18%
- Design strength
- 72/100, weight 18%
- Applicability
- 82/100, weight 16%
- Endpoint relevance
- 58/100, weight 16%
- Limitations transparency
- 60/100, weight 12%
- Safety signal usefulness
- 69/100, weight 10%
- Publication/source strength
- 88/100, weight 10%
Useful for context, but limited by endpoint relevance, limitations transparency, safety signal usefulness.
How the study framework works ->Key Findings
- Creatine monohydrate has one of the strongest supplement evidence bases for high-intensity exercise and training adaptation.
- The review supports a broad safety boundary in healthy people while still distinguishing consumer use from medical treatment claims.
Limitations
- Position stand, not a new randomized trial.
- Clinical applications are more variable than sport-performance outcomes.
Why It Matters
This record anchors the creatine-brain-muscle-longevity-claims Signal to an exact source URL, study design, population, and endpoint.
Viral Vitalism Verdict
Useful evidence when kept inside its population, endpoint, and design limits.
Sources
- International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand on creatine - Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition
Signal cards
Used in signals
Signal coverage connected to this study through explicit study links, canonical source refs, or evidence visualizations.
Creatine Beyond Muscle: Cheap Supplement or Overextended Brain Hack?
Creatine is one of the rare supplements where the baseline evidence is not flimsy. That makes the overclaim risk more interesting: strong sports-nutrition evidence is now being stretched into cognition, depression, aging, women’s health, sleep deprivation, and neuroprotection.
VV Signal Score
78
Promising signal
- Sources
- 7
- Studies
- 6
- Claims
- 4
Claim ledger
Relevant claims
Claim ledger records connected through this study's ID, topic tags, or source IDs.
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parasite cleanses: Herbal parasite cleanse protocols are not supported as broad
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parasite cleanses: Feeling worse during a parasite cleanse is not proof
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