There’s always been little doubt that exercise is good for you, though the jury’s out on the safety of supplementing your diet with creatine. While researching the safety of supplementing an exercise regime with creatine, I discovered this article. Not only can creatine improve your strength gains over time, but apparently it can make you smarter as well:

The dietary supplement creatine – known to improve athletic performance – can also boost memory and intelligence, researchers claim.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3145223.stm

It’s all very interesting stuff. But I think this proves less about creatine’s ability to make you smart than it does about vegetarians being inherently dim.

I’m pleased to see that the BBC has maintained it’s high journalistic standards, ensuring the article remains accessible to everyone, even the dim vegetarians. Rather than use a tricky word like ‘placebo’, which would frankly leave the vegetarians baffled for weeks, they described their experiments like this:

The volunteers were split up and given either creatine or a “dummy” pill for periods of six weeks.