Interesting Links for 06-11-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Can creatine supplements help people with long COVID?

(tags:Pandemic mitochondria )

2. On "bad kids"

(tags:children behaviour abuse )

Comments

[azdak]

Re.#1 - 12 people (6 of whom were in the control group that only got the placebo) seems way too small a sample to draw any conclusions, so I‘m not surprised to see that this „study“ was funded by the manufacturers of the treatment in question.

[andrewducker]

It's enough for an initial study to show it's worth looking into further, and it ties in with the link from yesterday about ATP being the issue with Long Covid.

[channelpenguin]

yeah, especially as creatine is cheap, widely available and has been taken safely by many people for many years.

[channelpenguin]

Creatine is taken by huge numbers of fitness types and is widely available from a huge number of manufacturers.

The biology makes sense.

Yes that study is tiny, I agree.

[channelpenguin]

Oh, and it's cheap

[adrian_turtle]

With #2, it's easier to see how a child of 12 is traumatized and in need of help rather than being a "bad kid," than to see how an adult (or even a 16 year old) is traumatized and in need of help rather than being a "bad person."

[andrewducker]

We certainly have more empathy for children than adults.

And certainly, by the time someone is an adult we expect them to have some control over their emotions, so that they aren't actively dangerous to others.

But I firmly believe that an awful lot of adults are suffering from both trauma, and a lack of a positive environment that would make it possible for them to flourish.

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[channelpenguin]

Repeated from yesterday's links

What creatine does (enables optimal "re-loading" of ADP back to ATP within muscle cells. THis does not need the ATP pathway that it seems COVID disrupts)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine#:~:text=Creatine%20is%20transported%20through%20the,of%20only%20a%20few%20seconds.

ADP ATP
https://www.biologyonline.com/tutorials/biological-energy-adp-atp