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May 2, 2025 • 14 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
A good martial artist does not become tense, but
ready.
Essentially, at this point, thefight is over, so you pretty
much flow with the goal.
Who is worthy to be trustedwith the secret to limitless
power?
I'm ready.

(00:27):
Creatine is the single mostunderrated supplement for BJJ.
Here's why.
Now, you may have heard ofcreatine, you might be taking it
, but we need to actually talkabout why this is the number one
supplement that you need to.

(00:48):
If you're taking it, you needto take more and and I'm not
usually and if you're not takingit, fucking get up on it, hurry
up.
Well, what's going on?
You're behind in the times.
There is 40 year old crossfitwomen who kick your ass right
now, and it's because ofcreatine, not because of the
Olympic lifting Creatine.
Now, for many of you out thereyou may have heard it's good for

(01:08):
lifting weights athletic stuffbecause it increases your ATP
levels, which is just the energyin your muscle.
But there's something elsewhich I wasn't smack fully aware
of.
It actually helps improve yourIGF, insulin growth factor, one
which helps you build muscle.
It actually helps spark that inthe body.

(01:30):
So not only does it give youmore fuel to lift more weights,
it actually helps the musclesgrow more, so recovery, getting
more jacked, all of the things.
It's incredibly helpful forthat and it's been long studied
and known that for like the last20 years.
Know that that it increasesigf1, not igf1, the atp thing,

(01:50):
right, yeah, so being able to domore reps for longer and that
incrementally does help you get,get stronger, which is good.
Uh, the igf1 factor, that'skind of only come in in more
recent years that people becomeaware of that, right.
So people like, why not?
Now, the downside, as it's beenspoken to, is that you do get a
little bit more water retention.

(02:11):
There's a little bit of that.
So you might not be as ripped,but the muscle bellies will be
full and so you will be lookingmore muscular.
Yeah, right on.
So there's that.
That's step one.
Now, more recently and there'sthere's plenty of stuff in the
media about this higher doses ofcreatine, because typically
they'd say, oh, you just takefive grams, or five to eight,

(02:34):
yes, maybe 10 grams.
Now, fuck all that noise.
They're talking 20 grams plusfor brain function, for
cognitive function, wow,specifically to do with fatigue.
Now I'm going to go a littlebit sideways here.
I'm going to talk about theliver king.
Wow, oh, love that guy.

(02:54):
What have I learned from theliver king and all his organic,
natural ways?
Now the liver king is fuckingmaniac Balls testicles.
What the fuck are you doing?
Right, but there was aparticular episode with derrick
from more plates, more dateswhere he broke down the liver
king's blood work.
This is kind of him outing himwhen a lot of people like

(03:16):
somehow we don't think or not.
Yeah, much conjecture.
And and then derrick was likeno, I'm going to break this.
And he was like well, you know,he sent me his blood work like
six months ago and wanted toconsult him as a client.
He's like I'm taking this much,this much test, this much
growth hormone, this much anavar, this much everything his

(03:40):
supplement stack.
And he was doing like injectableamounts of a lot of things,
whether it be carnitine orvitamins or whatever, because
some certain elements your bodydoes actually absorb quite well
in a injectable form.
Now, step away from that.
Tell me more about that.
I'm not about the injectables,so don't get me wrong.

(04:01):
But what I found interestingabout this because the guy's
crazy I did kind of pay a littlebit of attention to him because
he was doing all kinds of crazyfitness challenges.
You know he's like putting 60kilos on himself and fucking
climbing up the mountain,throwing spears, and you're like
God, this guy just doesn't stop.
He's going hard for that 20second reel, full time format.

(04:22):
There's a lot of training forhim to get that that much
content and entertainment.
Yeah, what I did pay attentionto was this guy's taking 20 to
40 grams of creatine a day.
Right, and this is two morethan two years ago.
I was like what the fuck?
That seems like a lot ofcreatine.
And what I had read aboutcreatine is that some people

(04:43):
respond to the athletic elementsof creatine and some people
don't.
You give them 10 grams dailyand they don't feel the same
benefits as others.
So they're people who areresponders.
I am someone who responds tocreatine.
I take some, I feel stronger, Ifeel better, et cetera.
You feel stronger in thatmoment or when you're at the gym
.
No, in the gym I can get out afew more reps.

(05:05):
So instead of say you know Icould maybe only do five reps or
something, maybe I could doeight, maybe nine, but
incrementally that's so it givesyou four reps on a five rep set
.
Yeah, wow, it's significant,that's huge, it's a lot.
And when you compound that overtime, like your total volume of
lifting is is much higher.

(05:26):
Yeah, recovery is better, allthose things.
But I was like, okay, so liverking's a fucking maniac, fair
and you know, also just abusingdrugs.
But he was also just trying todo the most.
I am someone who likes to do themost and I thought to myself,
what if I have 20 grams ofcreatine?
This is like two years ago andI started taking like 10 in the

(05:48):
morning, you know, five in thehour, five after training, like
20 in a day, and I was like Ifeel pretty good.
And I talked to a few otherfriends and they're like, oh,
how does that affect youdigestively?
And I was like, no, I'm fine.
And I started getting strongerand I started getting bigger and
I'm like shit's working for me.
Now the most best natural sourceof creatine is meat, animal

(06:09):
meat, but they've shown that Notvegetable meat, unfortunately,
not vegetable meat, but animalsources of protein.
But the thing is they've shownthat with vegetarians, when they
supplement with creatine, theyget reductions in fatigue, they
get improvements in musclebuilding.
Wow, because it's an elementthat is kind of missing in the
vegetable meat diet.

(06:30):
Yeah, but here's the thing.
This is the thing that stoodout to me.
So you know what I hate I hategassing out.
You know what I hate.
I hate gassing out.
You know what I love Dominatingon the mats.
Do you know how you can stopyourself gassing out and start
dominating on the mats?
Being hydrated.
Dehydration accounts for a 30%to 40% drop in performance.

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(07:12):
Derek more plates, more dates isdoing this analysis and kind of
expose Liver King.
But he was like the trainingvolume on the guy is crazy.
That's what he was saying.
You can go back and watch thevideo.
And he was hesitant to take himon as a client because he's
like I don't think this guy'sgoing to listen to me.
He didn't actually end upworking with him, but he had all
his blood work and all thisstuff there.
So then you know five to 10grams.

(07:35):
That's some basic bitch shit.
I'm talking 20 grams plus andthe confirmation bias comes
through strong.
Dr Rhonda, patrick, she'stalking about 20 plus grams of
creatine to improve cognitivefunction, for memory retention,
fighting fatigue and being ableto concentrate.

(07:55):
They did this study in peoplewho were sleep deprived and what
they did is they kind of keptthem sleep-deprived over like
six to eight weeks.
One group supplemented with 20to 30 grams of creatine a day
and the other group didn't, andthey had reduced level of
fatigue in up to I think it waslike 85% of those people it felt

(08:15):
way better just because of thecreatine.
Yeah, wow, and they're sayingit's because your brain uses a
bunch of ATP Creatine is goodfor helping you build ATP and
that your brain has a muchhigher level of saturation for
requirement for ATP andtherefore saturation of creatine
, than your muscles.
Right, and that's why it'sbetter to be using much more

(08:37):
creatine as a way to fightfatigue.
And now I'm someone who'schronically underslept,
over-caffeinated, all that shit,and I have found that I feel
better in the gym when I'mhaving a bunch of creatine.
Now I will, because I take somuch of it, I'll run out.
And now I'm fuck, run outcreatine and then I'll have a.
I have a week maybe where Idon't I couldn't be bothered

(09:00):
going and getting the re-up and,uh, it's good, it's good for
the system to kind of you know,cycle on and off.
You might say, joe, yeah,that's right.
And then, um, and then I'm like, oh, my god, I don't, I don't,
I definitely don't have as much.
Now he's playing catch up.
Now I'm like God, I've lost thesaturation, I'm feeling tired,

(09:21):
and then, you know whatever, aweek later I'm taking it
consistently again.
I'm like I do feel thedifference.
And what I'm trying to make thecase for here is some of you out
there have heard yeah, my matetakes it.
He does crossfit.
I don't do that.
Well, you might be taking avitamin supplement.

(09:42):
You might, who knows?
Taking protein.
You might be doing whatever youcan to kind of feel better.
I believe creatine is not onlygoing to enhance what you're
doing in the gym, it's reallygoing to help your recovery from
jujitsu.
It is going to help you bounceback so you can't be rolling
more.
Yeah, and it's um, I guess justas a, as a bit of a caveat,

(10:03):
it's very cheap, yeah.
As far as supplements go, yeah,it's really not expensive, uh,
when you compare it to likevitamins and magnesium and
fucking electrolytes and stuff,right, uh.
But also, it has beenextensively studied for decades.
Yes, like it's really had theshit studied out of it.
If there were any downsides toit, I'm very confident we would

(10:24):
know those now.
Yeah, and so you know, unlikesome things right where, if you
go into a supplement shop,there's a bunch of shit on the
shelves that you can't trust no,but creatine, in my mind, is
not one of those things.
Not at all.
Yeah, you're right, it has beenstudied, it is really clean,
and the thing is they'reactually finding more benefits
to it than they first imagined.

(10:44):
So they're saying that actuallyit's really good for people who
struggle with dopamine, sopeople who don't produce enough
dopamine, people who aredepressed.
They're saying that it helpsfunction as a not saying it is a
neurotransmitter, but it helpswith neurotransmitter function,
right, and so therefore, peoplewho are struggling to feel happy

(11:07):
or excited start takingcreatine and it's easier for
them to get to those states, andso obviously more research has
to be done.
States, and so obviously moreresearch has to be done.
But if we think about, like thethree major things that jujitsu
really does to your body, whichis it requires muscle strain and
effort, it breaks your musclesdown and it makes you fucking

(11:28):
tired.
If there was a supplement youcould take.
And you've got to use yourfucking brain a lot.
You have to think.
You've got to learn yourproblem solving at a crazy rate.
Yeah, creatine really helps Ifyou could sprinkle a little bit
of fucking hot sauce on all ofthose processes.
Ooh, you betcha, why wouldn'tyou?
And I mean you could just startwith five grams a day, you
pussy.

(11:48):
No, and there used to be thiswhole idea of loading this.
There used to be this wholeidea of loading.
This is the thing that you haveto have a certain amount.
But actually that's kind ofrecently been disproven.
If you just start taking it,you will start feeling benefits
within a day or two of justhaving more resources to draw on
mentally and physically.
And look, the crazy thing is allthe people out there who are

(12:11):
really hardworking athletes,crossfitters, runners, you name
it.
They take creatine it's kind ofstock standard as something you
would do.
But jujitsu, folks are just notdoing it and they're not
benefiting.
Yeah, it's kind of it's kind ofa crazy thing to think that
it's being skipped or missed inthat way.
But, uh, but folks, I can'tmake a strong enough case

(12:34):
because I am taking 20 to 30grams a day and I haven't had
any negative side effects as aresult just yet.
I mean, sometimes I do getuncontrolled fits of rage and
I've just got to hide the bodies.
No, I think the thing is thatthere are many things you can do

(12:56):
that only help you up until apoint, and the great thing about
creatine is you can just have alittle bit of a play with it.
It is cheap, you know.
It's like less than a dollar aserve, maybe 50 cents a serve If
you're doing like uh uh, maybe50 cents for five grams.
And depending on what brand youbuy and it doesn't matter what
brand you buy you can buy thecheapest version.
Creatine monohydrate it's thesame shit, pretty much the same

(13:19):
stuff.
It doesn't matter how it'sblended.
So definitely encourage you,get out there, get some.
Just a bit of that in watermorning, evening, doesn't matter
.
Get it in your system, you willbenefit, thank me, you will
benefit, thank me later.
I pump it in the morning withelectrolytes, which is just a
convenient time to get it in.
It is tasteless and mix it withthe sody.
It's just like it's a.

(13:40):
It's a nice little starter.
Get things going all right,folks there it is, get into it.
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