Creatine - Anyone here use this supplement to help with focus and cognitive performance?
As OEers, I’m sure several of you can relate to the feeling of being consistently overwhelmed.
I’ve been trying everything to improve my cognitive performance and better manage switching between tasks, being more effective at decision-making, and reduce to cognitive load required for critical thinking. My diet is extremely healthy. I workout daily. I’ve been focusing on (trying to) improve my sleeping habits.
One recent practice I’ve started is consuming 10g of creatine in my daily health-smoothie, specifically to boost my cognitive performance. At 5g daily I didn’t notice much difference, but this past week I have started to notice a decrease in the “brain fog” and an increase in productivity. I’m able to answer things on the fly, switch between tasks, optimize processes, chase down answers, and keep cases moving, all of which I struggle to juggle daily.
I understand there is likely a psychological component here - I am anticipating noticing a difference so slight variances toward improvement become more monumental in my mind. But, I’m interested to know if anyone else has explored this rabbit hole and specifically its impact on your abilities to further improve work performance?
The reason I bring this to the OE sub is because we are all looking for tricks to optimize, and OE is the reason I started taking creatine to begin with.
Thoughts?