It first struck all at once when I was in my bedroom at the end of the night, I struggled to bed, fell asleep, and was still so weak on waking my resting breath didn’t completely cycle the air in my lungs, so I manually took deep breaths.

That made me feel marginally better so I tried hyperventilating, that made me feel marginally better yet, enough to struggle to the kitchen.

I grabbed a few chunks of dried pineapple to eat and that made me even marginally better still, but I was still absolutely feeble.

I had a clever generalist’s understanding of things, though.

“Huh, more oxygen helps… more blood sugar helps… but even together they’re not enough. This sounds like an issue with aerobic energy generation.”

And I knew that creatine enables anaerobic energy generation from fat, which can be drawn on when energy demand exceeds aerobic capacity, and I had some on hand and I thought “may as well try”, so moving as if gravity was 3 times as strong I took a few scoops in a cup of water, shook it up, gulped down, a few minutes later I did in fact feel better so I did it again and I was back to normal.

And then I mad scientist laughed my ass off, I’m extremely proud of that one, made me feel like Batman reasoning his way out of the Riddler’s trap.