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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.

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Creatine cognition reviewCreatine health and disease reviewCreatine memory meta-analysis

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Ultra-Processed Foods and Protein Everything: Protein Halo or Processing Penalty?

Ultra-processed food debates are usually too crude. The useful question is which mechanisms drive harm: energy density, eating rate, texture, fiber, protein dilution, palatability, additives, food matrix, or processing itself. Protein can be protective, but protein-branded products can still be ultra-processed.

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BMJ UPF umbrella reviewFAO NOVA classificationHall UPF inpatient trial

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Creatine Beyond Muscle: Cheap Supplement or Overextended Brain Hack?

Ultra-Processed Foods and Protein Everything: Protein Halo or Processing Penalty?

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