Julia Gartland 4 min read DEATH, TAXES, AND five grams of creatine monohydrate daily. For a long time, those were life’s certainties. That amount of creatine was all you needed to saturate your muscles to readily supply them with ATP, a molecule that supplies energy vital for exercise. And with a steady supply ATP in your system, you could push one more rep beneath the bar or power through a few more box jumps . Couple that effort with the right nutrition ( protein, protein, protein ) and your battered post-workout muscles could then build back stronger. If you wanted to fire up muscle and strength, that five grams of daily creatine was your kindling—and decades of research on creatine and physical performance bore this out. Then within the last decade or so something curious started surfacing. Emerging research has begun looking into higher doses of creatine for benefits that might extend beyond your biceps . Creatine and cognitive function . Creatine and traumatic brain injury.…