Protect your muscles and energy as you age

·1 hr 25 min·5 clips

Pharmacist Jerry Hickey reveals why he takes creatine daily, claiming it boosts both physical and mental energy for older adults.

Jerry Hickey, a nutritionist and licensed pharmacist, hosts this episode of Invite Health Radio, running the entire hour and a half solo. He opens by discussing creatine monohydrate, a supplement he takes daily, explaining its origins in bodybuilding and its natural presence in the human body. Hickey emphasizes creatine's role in recycling ATP for energy, improving endurance, power, and brain function, particularly for older adults. He shares a personal story about realizing that aging fatigue often stems from brain tiredness, leading him to research creatine. Hickey cites studies linking creatine deficiency to depression, brain fog, and increased risks of angina pectoris, liver disease, and cancer, referencing surveys like NHANES and journals like Food Science and Nutrition. He then transitions to Active HX (HMB), detailing its use in 11 clinical trials with cancer patients, where it improved muscle strength and survival rates, and in healthy older adults, where it boosted endurance by 62% and VO2 max by 75%. Hickey promotes green tea, highlighting research from the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition and institutions like Harvard and Yale on its benefits for reducing stroke, heart attack, and cancer risks, including lung, breast, and ovarian cancers. He discusses multivitamins, referencing the COSMOS study involving over 21,000 older adults, which showed a 38% reduced lung cancer risk and improved cognitive function. Hickey explains the superiority of Invite multivitamins, particularly their use of methyltetrahydrofolate to lower homocysteine and Alzheimer's risk. He covers collagen's role in skin, joints, and bones, citing 60 clinical trials showing wrinkle reduction and joint healing. Hickey advocates for krill oil over fish oil, noting its additional benefits like choline for brain health and astaxanthin for inflammation reduction, referencing studies in journals like Stroke and JAMA. Finally, he discusses Ubiquinol's advantages over CoQ10 for energy, heart health, and reducing cardiovascular deaths, sharing a personal family history of heart disease. Throughout, Hickey intersperses promotional offers for Invite Health products, including discounts with code JerryWOR.

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