There’s a small, well-dressed lab-coated pickpocket living on your supplement shelf. Clipboard in hand. Too-friendly smile. Smells faintly of artificial lemon and bad decisions. Every time you reach for “creatine HCl,” “buffered creatine,” or some trademarked chemistry experiment… …he skims a few bucks. That’s the HCl tax. For two decades, the supplement industry has been running the same play. Take one of the most studied ergogenic aids in history… …then whisper that there’s a more advanced...

In this episode of the Flex Diet Podcast, I sit down with creatine researcher Dr. Darren Candow from the University of Regina to break down what the research actually says about creatine for muscle, performance, and body composition—plus the newer interest in brain health, aging, and longevity. We dig into practical dosing (including higher-dose ideas for bone and brain), why timing probably doesn’t matter much, and what the data shows on safety, side effects, and common myths like hair loss....

Hola from hot S Padre Island, The wind is finally coming back up, which means my funky chicken wind dance must have finally worked. Picture a large pale exercise physiologist on the beach, flapping around like a caffeinated sandhill crane who just discovered pre-workout. You’re welcome, Texas. hahaha. First off, huge thanks to everyone who enrolled in the Phys Flex Cert. Super stoked for you — especially the few of you who snuck in at the buzzer before the doors slammed shut at midnight like...