Vegetarians may experience improved brain function than meat eaters after consuming creatine supplement, finds a new pilot study.

‘Vegetarians have lower creatine levels as creatine is not present in plant-based foods. But a new study finds that supplementation of creatine resulted in better memory in vegetarians rather than in those who consume meat.’
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A research team from Stetson University in Florida studied vegetarian volunteers as well as those who ate either up to 10 or 10 or more servings of beef, chicken, pork or fish each week. Read More..





The volunteers were split into two groups selected randomly. One group took a daily creatine supplement for four weeks, and the other group did not. Before and after the trial, all participants took the ImPACT test, a widely used standardized measure of neurocognitive function. The vegetarian supplement group scored higher on the ImPACT test than the group that ate 10 or more servings of meat, poultry or seafood per week.
"Meat eaters did not show any significant improvement of cognition following supplementation because [their] creatine levels were already elevated [from their diet]," explained Kaitlyn Smith, first author of the study.
"This is a pilot study for future research in the field of cognition, and specifically in vegetarians, as [there is] a shift to meat- and dairy-free alternatives in society," Smith added.
Kaitlyn Smith, an undergraduate student at Stetson University, will present the poster "Effect of creatine-monohydrate on cognitive function in subjects who differ in dietary meat consumption" on Monday, April 8, in the Exhibit Hall-West of the Orlando County Convention Center.
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