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Who is your favorite batgirl and why?

My favorite is easily Cassandra. Her story is one of the best among any DC character. I mean, her mother is Lady Shiva!!(another favorite character of mine). So she was trained by the deadliest person in the DC Universe AND Batman. She freaking dope!

So Cassandra is one of my favorite characters period. I love her transformation into Orphan as well. I’m interested to hear what people think of her and the other amazing women who have donned the Batgirl cowl!

I would LOVE to get a season 5 with another time jump but the time jump comes in half way through the season.

The first half of the season picks up right where season 4 left off with Darkseid’s new furies, Supergirl and Black Mary!

The second half time jump would really be so we can see a 10-12 year old Damian Wayne.

Honestly I just really want to see Supergirl and Black Mary as new the new furies!!!

This is a question for all the women, who is your favorite batgirl and why?

My favorite is easily Cassandra. Her story is one of the best among any DC character. I mean, her mother is Lady Shiva!!(another favorite character of mine). So she was trained by the deadliest person in the DC Universe AND Batman. She freaking dope!

So Cassandra is one of my favorite characters period. I love her transformation into Orphan as well. But as a man, I’m interested to hear what women think of her and the other amazing women who have donned the Batgirl cowl!

I've been trying to get a straight answer on this but I am getting conflicting info. Maybe there is no straight answer? I get that the body makes some amino acids and not others, but I don't understand why we are not clear on which are essential and which aren't. What am I missing here?

I used BodyHealth's Perfect Amino instead of whey protein for a few months because I was under the impression that it was "better" than whey or that a scoop of perfect amino will be "99% used by the body to synthesize new protein" as opposed to whey's 18% utilization.

But after speaking with friends and asking multiple AI chats, this may not be fully true? IDK. I am now paying for whey isolate as well as perfect amino but I am thinking of dropping perfect amino as I feel sort of tricked by the marketing and its expensive.

Can you anyone shed some light on this? Thanks!

I kept seeing creatine-for-the-brain claims and wanted to actually read the research instead of the hype, so I put together an honest summary — both the formal studies and the mechanism/traditional-use side. Sharing in case it's useful. Not selling anything, genuinely curious what people think of this format.

The claim: Creatine monohydrate supports cognitive performance, especially under sleep deprivation or mental fatigue.

What the formal research says:

• The strongest, most consistent finding is under stress — specifically sleep deprivation. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial (15 participants, single 0.35 g/kg dose, 21 hours awake), creatine measurably reduced the cognitive decline caused by sleep deprivation — improving working memory and processing speed — alongside measurable changes in the brain's energy metabolites.
• In well-rested, healthy people the effect is real but smaller and more specific. A 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis of 16 RCTs (492 adults) found significant positive effects on memory, attention, and processing speed — but no significant improvement on overall cognitive function.
• Effects on memory seem strongest in older adults. A 2023 meta-analysis found an overall memory improvement versus placebo, with a notably larger effect in adults aged 66–76. (Honest caveat: that meta-analysis also drew a published letter-to-the-editor critique over its statistics — so this one's promising, not settled.)

The broader signal:

• Mechanism (well understood): creatine helps regenerate ATP, the brain's main energy currency. The brain is energy-hungry, which makes the cognitive effects biologically plausible — especially when it's under metabolic stress.
• Traditional/real-world use: decades in athletics, with a strong safety record.
• Momentum: accelerating — multiple new RCTs and reviews in the last two years.

The honest takeaway: This isn't "creatine makes you smarter." It's "creatine seems to help your brain most when it's stressed — like sleep-deprived — the mechanism makes sense, the safety record is excellent, and the general-cognition effects are real but modest and still being worked out."

Sources:

• Gordji-Nejad et al., Scientific Reports 14:4937 (2024) — single-dose creatine during sleep deprivation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54249-9
• Xu et al., Frontiers in Nutrition (2024) — systematic review & meta-analysis, cognition in adults: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11275561/
• Prokopidis et al., Nutrition Reviews (2023) — meta-analysis, memory in healthy individuals: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9999677/