{"id":244518,"date":"2026-09-26T13:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/popular-supplement-increases-strength-even-without-exercise-study-shows"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:03:59","slug":"popular-supplement-increases-strength-even-without-exercise-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/popular-supplement-increases-strength-even-without-exercise-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Popular Supplement Increases Strength Even Without Exercise, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wPT4wtNTZlU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Talk to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-huge-number-of-young-athletes-are-taking-creatine-should-they\">young athlete<\/a>, and they\u2019ll know about creatine.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/exercise-and-fitness\/what-is-creatine-potential-benefits-and-risks-of-this-popular-supplement\">one of the most popular supplements<\/a> for improving muscle recovery and preserving muscle mass \u2013 used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-common-gym-supplement-may-give-cancer-fighting-cells-an-energy-boost\">gym junkies<\/a> around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Now, new research adds to tentative evidence that creatine may benefit the body and brain even without exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk to any young athlete, and they\u2019ll know about creatine. It\u2019s one of the most popular supplements for improving muscle recovery and preserving muscle mass \u2013 used by gym junkies around the world. Now, new research adds to tentative evidence that creatine may benefit the body and brain even without exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244518","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}