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