Creatine Monohydrate Effects of creatine on mental fatigue and cerebral hemoglobin oxygenation

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  • Airi Watanabe
  • Nobumasa Kato
  • Tadafumi Kato
  • Patrick L. Jacobs
چکیده

While the role of creatine in preventing muscle (peripheral) fatigue for high performance athletes is well understood, its biochemical role in prevention of mental (central) fatigue is not. Creatine is abundant in muscles and the brain and after phosphorylation used as an energy source for adenosine triphosphate synthesis. Using double-blind placebo-controlled paradigm, we demonstrated that dietary supplement of creatine (8 g/day for 5 days) reduces mental fatigue when subjects repeatedly perform a simple mathematical calculation. After taking the creatine supplement, task-evoked increase of cerebral oxygenated hemoglobin in the brains of subjects measured by near infrared spectroscopy was significantly reduced, which is compatible with increased oxygen utilization in the brain. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Oral creatine supplementation enhances upper extremity work capacity in persons with cervical-level spinal cord injury Patrick L. Jacobs PhD, Edward T. Mahoney MA, Kelly A. Cohn RN, MS, Laurey F. Sheradsky PTA and Barth A. Green MD From the Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Volume 83, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 1923

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تاریخ انتشار 2006