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Taking creatine cured my lightheadedness that occurs when standing up after squatting for a few minutes, which happens a lot at my job (plumbing). It also reduced other negative effects of sleep deprivation, such as impaired cognition, but to a lesser degree.
How much do you take? How often?
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Why does medical get an exception for poor treatment
It's impossible for doctors and nurses to pass on everything they know about a patient during shift changes, which can be seen in the form of spikes in deaths and other bad outcomes right after care is handed over to a new team. Hence why they tend to do longer shifts. That effect is eventually balanced out by exhaustion, sleep deprivation, etc taking the same toll they do on everyone. Theoretically If you could redu…
Can we try to improve the handoff problem before trying to make sleep deprived doctors and nurses able to suffer for even longer?
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Why does medical get an exception for poor treatment
It's impossible for doctors and nurses to pass on everything they know about a patient during shift changes, which can be seen in the form of spikes in deaths and other bad outcomes right after care is handed over to a new team. Hence why they tend to do longer shifts. That effect is eventually balanced out by exhaustion, sleep deprivation, etc taking the same toll they do on everyone. Theoretically If you could redu…
Other consumables from meat with notable effects here are carnosine and taurine. Carnosine in particular helps with janitorial processes that happen during sleep.
I think Choline belongs in that list also. The difficulty of getting these on a vegan diet is the reason I started consuming bivalves
For me it has worked fine.
However, among the nutritional supplements for a vegan diet I make a temporary exception for cod liver oil (or other fish oil). Even if there is an adequate vegan substitute (Schizochytrium oil, which is produced by a cultivated fungus-like organism, despite being marketed as "algae" oil), for now it is still too expensive. Its price has been slowly decreasing, so I expect that in a few years its price will become no greater than double in comparison with fish oil, when I would consider switching to it as acceptable.
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Why does medical get an exception for poor treatment
It shouldn't in general, but there are restricted cases where it's literally life and death and difficult/impossible to plan around.
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They have to mean 5g, as does the guy who responded to you who seems to have made the same mistake. The recommended dose on most creatine containers is around 5 grams. 5mg is so little that it would be impossible to measure without a mg scale.
The last sentence there is an impressively neat tautology. I love it
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Why does medical get an exception for poor treatment
It's impossible for doctors and nurses to pass on everything they know about a patient during shift changes, which can be seen in the form of spikes in deaths and other bad outcomes right after care is handed over to a new team. Hence why they tend to do longer shifts. That effect is eventually balanced out by exhaustion, sleep deprivation, etc taking the same toll they do on everyone. Theoretically If you could redu…
Not enabling the same burnout for even longer shifts.
Burnout and just simple short term fatigue both also create patient risk.
We have drugs that would allow very long completely alert shifts, with few side effects for single use. But there is no way to do that regularly in a mentally (or physically) healthy sustainable way.
I can see those being used by a battlefield medic, or in a disaster zone, for one off critical situations.
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The last sentence there is an impressively neat tautology. I love it
I always wondered why I couldn’t measure mg with my gram scale! I just kept asking myself where are the sig figs?
I love creatine for the amplified neural oscillations produced by the greater efficiencies in the ATP metabolism. I experience more "deep work", or the ability for me to focus for longer periods/stretches of time.