http://www.webmd.com/news/20001102/creatine-may-limit-brain-damage http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/78504157/abstract
You ever read about the NFL and the effects from all the concussions they had? Theyve had quite a few guys die young (40s or whatever) and they examined their brains and a lot had signs of dementia. The doctors said their brains looked like 80 year olds.
Believe it or not, a study has been done on that. Apparently people who drank alcohol after sustaining a head trauma suffered less damage to their brain cells.
The result of this research may actually be the reverse, that a lack of creatine increases your chances at brain damage. Creatine should be in your natural diet, and it's unclear what the diet of the rats not taking creatine was.
That's about what I meant. Which would lead to the logical conclusion that dehydration increases the chance of brain damage, something we already knew. In similar fashion you could say that eating salt decreases the risk of brain damage, while it's actually the opposite case, a lack of salt may lead to dehydration, which may lead to an increased chance of brain damage. I hate "research" like that because it usually has an agenda.
That's why I said it was unclear to me, I have no idea how they naturally take these substances. As far as I know the rat is an omnivore, which would make them comparable to ourself.