{"id":238492,"date":"2026-06-06T06:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/creatine-may-supercharge-immune-cells-that-are-key-to-fighting-cancer"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:09:55","slug":"creatine-may-supercharge-immune-cells-that-are-key-to-fighting-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/creatine-may-supercharge-immune-cells-that-are-key-to-fighting-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Creatine may supercharge immune cells that are key to fighting cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/creatine-may-supercharge-immune-cells-that-are-key-to-fighting-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Creatine, the organic acid that is popularly taken as a supplement by athletes and bodybuilders, supercharges a critical class of immune cells that activate and prepare the body\u2019s key cancer-fighters, according to new UCLA research.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted in mouse models and human cells and published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/iscience\/fulltext\/S2589-0042(26)00811-4\" target=\"_blank\"><i>i<i>Science<\/i><\/i>,<\/a> builds directly on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-10-creatine-powers-cells-cancer.html\">earlier work from the same lab<\/a> showing that creatine powers killer T cells in their battle against tumors. Now, the team has discovered that creatine also fuels dendritic cells, specialized immune cells that capture tumor fragments and direct killer T cells to attack.<\/p>\n<p>Most approved cancer immunotherapies work by targeting killer T cells directly, yet only about 20%\u201340% of patients respond to them. Bolstering the dendritic cells that train and activate T cells could potentially offer a way to bring the benefits of immunotherapy to more patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creatine, the organic acid that is popularly taken as a supplement by athletes and bodybuilders, supercharges a critical class of immune cells that activate and prepare the body\u2019s key cancer-fighters, according to new UCLA research. The study, conducted in mouse models and human cells and published in iScience, builds directly on earlier work from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}