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For starters, I can vow creatine is crap. I'm 16 years old and have been lifting for about a year and 5 months. When I started lifting, I could only bench 105 lbs. That was in 8th grade. I never took any kind of supplement, no powder, nothing. I ate right, balanced my meals with protein, carbs and unsaturated fats. Now I'm in the 10th grade and bench press 250lbs. I gained 45 lbs in a year and weigh 175 lbs. I am an example that with determination, hard work and what god gave you, you can be as big as you want. Also, it's free.
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Creatine supplementation has been implemented since 1971. Isn't it a bit odd that 30 years later, all these negative reports coming from conventional/recreational weight-trainers are coming up? Even just averaging the responses on this page alone would mean there have been thousands of such instances over the years. If anyone has an underlying health problem, are on any medications, or even mixing numerous supplements without proper nutrition and hydration, sure, creatine may give you a problem, as would anything else. If you're healthy and treat your body the way it needs to be treated, creatine is perfectly safe. Believe that if it wasn't, the FDA would've stepped in A LONG TIME AGO.
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What a good topic to see discussed by average Joes and some professionals. We at my institute have scientific research processes we follow and have made some enlightening discoveries. Those of you who believe that most everything can have side effects, you are exactly correct. And can one person do something more without problems than another? Correct. Will any substance (food) affect everyone differently? Correct again. Does everything have the potential to give everyone negative effects? Correct again!! There is no such thing as a substance or food that cannot or does not have the ability to produce negative side effects, while at the same time, under certain conditions it has the ability to feed the body. What we are seeing in all of the conversations that are taking place because of all of these different experiences is the effect of laws of physics upon biologic systems.
Some experience good effects for a period of time and then suddenly bad ones. "Why" Is the question to ask. Has the person taken too much or used it too long? Both answers may be correct, but they are not scientific ones. The laws of science (God's Laws) dictate that there is always going to be an equal and opposite effect upon or within the action - reaction of interacting substances. In other words, some people will interact with a food that is chemically compatible with their system. Over time, this compatibility stops as a consequence of these laws, and that substance no longer feeds the person, but now begins to cause the opposite action as a reaction. This is why people can use something for a time and get good results, and then suddenly begin to crash. It is also why everyone responds to the same things in many different ways, some good and some bad, and to varying degrees according to the degree they are compatible chemically with whatever they are putting into their bodies.
Smoking can be a good example. Some people can smoke for long times and have no effect, while others are affected almost immediately. Why? Chemical compatibility. For one person, tobacco can be a food for a time and then it will begin to effect them negatively. Everyone's time table or chemical compatibility is different, so you will see many different responses over time. But the one thing that can be said about everything for sure, is that eventually that substance or food will begin to act negatively upon that person's body, and at varying degrees of speed their bodies will be confronted and eventually destroyed. No one can escape the negative side effect of any substance if used for a long time. Some will only be able to use it for a very short time before they experience the effects of these laws of physics (actually God's law, but most or at least some people do not want to hear this, even though it is easily proven).
To continue to explain...first, we are all different, so everything interacts chemically differently. Where we are chemically similar and we will seem to have similar chemical responses at the "macro" level, at the "micro" level there is a totally different picture, because none of us are exactly the same chemically. This is why we all have different results. We may have similar ones, but never can we have the same, because we are chemically different. Some of us come very close to each other in this makeup, but the facts are that we are different. Therefore, be aware that some people will get good results for varying degrees of time, which will eventually stop, and bad effects will begin to take place. Others will have less negative effects, but eventually everyone will have a negative effect if they use it long enough or take large enough quantities. An apple a day over a long time will not keep the doctor away, but will cause a condition that will need help to reverse the side effects. It may take a long time or a short time, it just depends upon that person's chemistry compatibility to apples. Different apples will cause different effects.
It is these same laws of physics or God's laws that declare that meat and everything else cannot be declared a food for everyone, because we are different. Some will get very sick eating meat of any type,. Dairy, cheese, breads of all types all become toxic if eaten when they are not chemically compatible at the time eaten. Or if compatible, there will always be a decrease in it compatibility over time and by the quantity eaten that determines the speed with which something goes out of compatibility and negatively begins to manifest.
I hope this give everyone a better idea why we hear all these different results, not from experience alone but from a scientific basis! This is why there are so many different responses to any drug or food, plant or chemical. The sure thing is to realize that there is nothing that will be safe to ingest for a long period. Eventually these laws will take effect and the outcome will change from good to not so good to bad to very bad! Most professionals have not received this scientific information because it is so new!!!
Good luck everyone!
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| I'm writing in regard to the creator of this page that maintains that creatine is both worthless and harmful. This man's claims have absolutely no base. His supposed kidney failure could have been caused by any number of things. The fact that he had only begun taking the supplement three days prior to the incident doesn't prove a connection between kidney failure and creatine; in fact it proves just the opposite. Although no studies of creatine's long term (over a year) effects exist, numerous short-term studies have been conducted. In all of the reports of these particular researches that I have seen and been able to get my hands on, the test groups exhibited absolutely no adverse effects or damage to their kidneys in comparison to the control groups. So, if this clown of a GNC worker's kidney failure had been the result of creatine usage, then wouldn't its damaging effects have been manifested in one, just one of hundreds of studies? You'd damn well think so wouldn't you?
Another piece of information that this dumb arse included in
his original write up was that if you were to take creatine then
your liver and kidneys would automatically shut down in regards
to creatine production. This is absolutely ridiculous. This joke
of a comment doesn't have a shred of scientific proof behind it.
I am amazed that this seemingly intelligent idiot would even consider
that plausible. In all tests and studies this "fact"
has never even been observed in one test subject. I just have
to laugh at this. Your liver and kidneys are not your testicles!
And if I were to say so, my statement would have as much merit
as what you have posted.
People, do not listen to this man (or girl I can't be sure). Creatine has never been in any way connected to or played a role in kidney failure. The fact that three wrestlers died of kidney failure while using creatine means nothing. Think about how many people take creatine and don't suffer form kidney problems as a result of such, and think about how many people suffer from kidney failure or kidney trouble who don't use creatine. These three serious isolated cases are more realistically simple coincidences more than anything. I myself have begun using creatine and I have suffered no adverse side effects besides slight weight gain. I am sure that creatine in fact helps greatly to improve explosiveness, strength, and recovery time. Within just 6 weeks of using creatine monohydrate, I found that my maxes had gone through the roof and I, as well as hundreds of scientific trials and studies, testify to you that creatine is safe for a period of one year and definitely does everything it claims to do, provided you work out and eat properly.
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Be careful of the many reports of people claiming that
creatine has caused damage to them. Who is to say what else
those people were on. They could have been taking a 1000mg
of testosterone a day with it or some other supplements
as well. Until there is reliable research on the effects
of creatine, no one should be jumping to conclusions. As
for the people who said it caused their kidneys to hurt,
it is probably just cramps because you were not drinking
enough water and were dehydrated.
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