Creatine
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About seven responses I've read here have had something in 'em like, "There have been no studies that show creatine has potentially harmful side effects," etc. There have been quite a few people citing "studies" in muscle and fitness magazine (c'mon people, do I have to spell it out for you? It's not exactly an unbiased source, and people believe what they want to believe).
For further reading: The New England Journal of Medicine, fer chrissakes:
http://www.nejm.org/content/1999/0340/0010/0814.asp
"Interstitial Nephritis in a Patient Taking Creatine"
From American Family Physician:
http://www.aafp.org/afp/981101ap/briefs.html#5 and http://www.aafp.org/afp/990401ap/tips.html#Do
This is pretty unbiased information. The studies are well-documented. Heck, contact the researchers yourself. Tell 'em you can wring their scrawny leeetle lab-coat-wearing ratty necks with your beeeg strawng creatine-enhanced muhscles! But for god's sake shut up about how there are "no studies" backing up claims of liver and kidney damage. A cursory search on the web (your finger muscles haven't gotten so big and well-developed that they can't click on the mouse yet, have they?) will who you all you need to know.
For the record, I believe that you can effectively supplement your diet and enhance your performance, but I really don't like this mass-mind mentality that says, "Hey, everybody's doing it, and the doofy magazines that I consider deep reading say it's okay!" Go out. Look for yourself. There are enough case studies on creatine phosphate that I wouldn't take it in even the recommended doses. I'll stick to mild theophylline in the morning, and maybe a jolt of adrenaline from posting sarcastic remarks to idiots on the web for enhancing MY workout.
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