Trainer explains what happens to your body if you take a megadose of creatine

Creatine could well be a super-supplement hidden right under our noses.

This organic compound is used amongst meat heads and gym bunnies as a rapid source of energy, but the standard intake is usually around the 5 grams-per-day mark.

In a video uploaded last year, TikTok exercise guru @trainbloom teased how quintupling that amount can actually benefit your mind instead of just your muscles.

We're talking mental health, memory and reaction speeds.

He explained: "Your body absorbs creatine in one of two places: about 95 percent is stored in your muscle tissue but the other 5 percent is stored in your brain, which is why new research is showing that when you take more than the standard 5g dose, levels in the brain start rising - improving things like mental health, memory and reaction time.

"But what if you took a lot more than 5g, like five times that amount?" continued the trainer.

"Researchers in Germany wanted to find out, so they split people into two different groups and kept them both awake for 21 hours straight before making them do several different cognitive tests.

"The only difference between the groups is that one got 25g of creatine while the other got a placebo. The results even shocked the researchers.

"Not only did the creatine group outperform the placebo group on every task they measured, but they were also found to function even better than if they were well-rested without creatine."

Even though the TikToker seemed fully behind this creatine increase for anyone listening, he did go on to highlight the inevitable and 'nasty' side effects.

These include stomach issues, like cramping and bloating.

But according to separate research he later cited, 10g of creatine per day is the sweet spot, where you get the 'added benefits without the drawbacks of going way past it'.

This comes after biomedical scientist Dr. Rhonda Patrick revealed on Steven Bartlett's podcast, The Dairy of a CEO, that she'd been taking 10g of creatine after reading up on the science.

"I was taking the 5g a day because that's really what most of the studies show," she told the podcaster. "When you're getting to that 5g range, muscles are really consuming it.

"There have now been, I think, a handful of studies showing that when you start to get above that... once you start to get to 10g, then if you look by MRI, you can start to see that creatine levels are increasing in certain brain regions. The 10g of creatine a day, which is now what my baseline is, is based off of that."