Can Creatine Make You Smarter?
IN A SMALL Missouri pharmacy, Drew Dible carefully measures out a five-gram dose of a fine white powder. The almost crystalline substance isn’t for a customer, but for him. And it’s not a prescription medication, but a supplement: creatine monohydrate.Dible is a 31-year-old pharmacist with an athletic build, standing 6'4" and weighing roughly 200 pounds. He’s always stayed in shape—5Ks, 10Ks, weightlifting—but he’s never taken any supplements except for a multivitamin.“Most of this wellness stuff always struck me as a bit scammy, so I didn’t waste my money on it,” he says. But Dible isn’t taking creatine because he’s looking to enhance his kipping power, or hit a race PR, or really for any reason related to physical fitness. He’s taking creatine for his brain.When he hit his early 30s, Dib...