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>>10477495
>the amount of creatine naturally converted by the body is genuinely not enough to maintain physical health
>citation required

>>10477511
>these two studies detail the deficiency in vegetarians and vegans of creatine and how their memories and brain power are affected by this.
No, they detail the fact that vegetarians and vegans benefit more from supplementation than do meat eaters. Pic related is from your study.

So what do we see in this pic? Before supplementation, vegetarians and meat eaters have similar function. But after both groups are given the same creatine supplement, vegetarians shoot WAY ahead while the meat eaters actually get worse. So all we're seeing here is that if you want to have more of that "brain power" you mentioned, the best avenue is to stop eating meat and start taking creatine supplements. Crazy, huh?

This is likely because the body of a meat eater, getting meat regularly through the diet, has down regulated creatine synthesis. Their body gets a lot via their diet, so it stops trying so hard to produce it. Vegetarians and vegans, on the other hand, don't get any via diet and their bodies are constantly working to produce it. The meat eater's body gets a creatine supplement and says, "Nah, we get that anyway, fuck it" while the vegetarian's body gets the same and says, "Fuck yes, this is the good stuff, use it all!". And so they get a bigger boost from the supplement.

>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18920766