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The Missing Link to Brain ENERGY

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Josh

The ability to think quickly, to think sharply, to remember well, to function at the top level neurologically, this requires that your energy is tipped up. And so falls in NAD or creatine are really detrimental. Let me put it to you this way: if you think about the mitochondria, think of those as a giant power station. And that's where the ATP is made. It's made in huge amounts, hopefully. Ideally, I mean if you don't have energy from your mitochondria, then everything downstream is kaput. So you need these power stations working, and NAD is absolutely obligatory there to make them work. But that is not enough. Just like having a large power station here in Nashville doesn't help people who live 45 minutes away. They need the energy in their home. Yeah, right. They couldn't care less whether there's a fantastic power station in Nashville, that doesn't help someone living 45 minutes away. You need a distribution system. You need to take the power from the power station to the periphery, ultimately to their house. And that is what the creatine story is all about. It's the distribution system.

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