Topic
Supplements
Evidence-backed supplements, dosing, timing, and what to skip.
Max KlineDoes Taking Creatine Before Bed Mess With Your Sleep?
Creatine is the most studied supplement in sports nutrition, but the timing question I keep getting is oddly specific: does the dose matter at night? The fear is that creatine is somehow stimulating and will wreck you…
Max KlineDoes Eating Kiwifruit Before Bed Actually Help You Sleep?
I love a sleep intervention that costs almost nothing and has a plausible mechanism, so when the "two kiwis before bed" thing kept resurfacing, I went looking for the actual data instead of the wellness telephone-game…
Elias KiptooDoes Drinking Beetroot Juice Before a Race Actually Make You Faster?
Beetroot juice keeps showing up in race-day chatter, and for once the hype has decent science under it. The mechanism is dietary nitrate, which your body converts to nitrite and then to nitric oxide, improving blood f…
Max KlineDoes Taking Your Magnesium at Night Actually Improve Your Sleep?
Magnesium is the supplement everyone tells you to take for sleep, and the marketing has gotten ahead of the data in the usual way. So let's isolate the variable. The strongest recent test we have is a 2021 systematic…
