Concerned about Creatine

>>42317456
>worried about health effects of creatine.
>drinks heavily.

Looks like you got some thinking to do there bud.

>>42317456
You don't actually need creatine. I took it at first, but stopped after a bit. Haven't really noticed a difference since.
You should fix your priorities while you're at it.

I started taking it 3 weeks ago. Just makes your muscles look fuller. Just take it pussy and shut up

>>42317456
It will make your muscles look "fuller" and more puffed.
Get some bloodwork done and check your kidney function (creatinine)

>>42317456
From Lyle's Mcdonald "The Protein Book":

>Creatine may be the single most studied product in the history of dietary supplements.Creatine has a tremendous amount of positive research on it in terms of athletic performance.
>The most direct is by increasing muscular stores of creatine phosphate which is used to resynthesize ATP during high-intensity activities lasting a few seconds or so. Creatine may also help to buffer changes in muscle acidosis, as well as sparing glycogen utilization during short-duration activities.
>Thus creatine supplementation would be expected to impact on activities lasting between 10 seconds and 2 minutes with little to no benefit for activities lasting longer than that. Creatine also appears to improve recovery between repeated bouts of high intensity activity such as repeated sprints or intervals.
>The majority of early studies examined its effects on fairly short-term activity, either weight lifting or sprint performance. Although not all studies found a positive effect, the grand majority did. In one review of 22 studies, the CM group showed an average 8% better gain in maximum strength and a 14% increase in the number of repetitions done with a sub-maximal load (67).
>In another review, it was reported that nearly 70% of creatine studies had reported a benefit to high intensity training with none showing a negative effect (68); the other 30% found no effect at all. It reported an average gain in strength and repetitions to failure of 5-15%, an increase in sprint performance of 1-5% and work done during repeated sprint performance of 5-15%.

>>42318002
>>In addition, creatine has been suggested to increase the gains in muscle mass with training. Studies have routinely shown an increase in lean body mass with creatine supplementation although this is likely to represent increased water retention in the short-term (65). However, over the longer term, CM could potentially impact on muscle mass gains.
These effects might simply be indirect: by allowing an athlete to work with heavier weights or to get more reps with a given weight, gains might be increased.
>However, some research has suggested more direct effects of CM on muscle mass including an increased expression of genes involved in muscle growth as well as myosin heavy chain expression (69,70). Creatine might also impact on cell metabolism by altering cell volume (the amount of water in the cell impacts on a number of biological processes including protein synthesis and breakdown).
>With one possible exception, CM is likely to be one of the very few must-have sports supplements for any strength or power athlete interested in maximizing either performance or training. CM is inexpensive, readily available, and proven over hundreds of studies to have a beneficial effect under most conditions relevant to those types of athletes. The one major exception to this is weight class athletes for whom CM could cause problems in making weight due to the increased water retention. Even there, CM could be used during training and then stopped several weeks prior to competition to allow any extra water weight to be lost.

>>42317456
just take fucking salt. it has almost the same effect as creatine does. buy nonrefined salt for even better gains since it isn't stripped of minerals

>>42317456
>>42318002
>>42318022
If you don't want to read all that: take creatine, it's good for you.

creatine is a meme unless you are a top athlete. all it does it allows you to get that one extra rep out. how many times do you go to COMPLETE failure on your sets? if you are going more than 1 in a week you are training wrong.

b-but recovery. EAT and SLEEP. these two things shit on creatine. just because you take some hairloss powder won't make your gains 100000x better. if you don't eat right and sleep enough then nothing short of steroids will work. and most people don't sleep enough. try sleeping 9-10 hours a night and you will see that the difference is like night and day if you've only slept for 7 or less before.

You may not need it but there's no reason to be concerned. It won't kill you.

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>>42317456
enjoy balding

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>>42317456
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