Creatine
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I have a few concerns about this product. I myself am a 22 yr old college student. I have heard and experienced all kinds of good things about this creatine monohydrate. I played football for a state champion football team in high school. The lifting coach put together an unbelievable schedule with strict supplemental nutrition requirements on the players. One of the required supplements was this creatine. Our squad that year was 108 players strong. The team went on to win the state title again. But let me tell you. We were the strongest team to go through that program. There were postings all around the weight room with lifting records on multiple exercises. The records were broken daily. An these guys got big FAST.
But as we all know, once we get out of training for a sport (ie. football), we fall into the more favorable lax lifestyle of slackin. Well, this is where I found really strange side effects of creatine. I fell into a period of which my lifting schedule was more erratic. But my doses stayed the same. I put on 45 lbs in 8 mos. (non- muscle). I ate right and everything. I was so paranoid about this sudden shift in metabolism that I stopped taking the creatine. Ate one large meal a day, protein shaked the other two, increased cardiovascular exercise (20min./day, 3days/week). My weight is still going up but I'm not getting fatter.
The thing is, I see all of these guys I played football with that graduated college recently, and they are suffering from the same odd side effect. That got me thinkin.
I am presently studying genetics and biochemical pathways of respiration and general metabolism. Your body's metabolism is a very fragile thing. Once you change it, it's hard to change back. Well, how DOES one change it (metabolism). Here's one way, hurt your liver. Your liver is the one organ in your body that efficiently metabolizes all of the food we consume. Your liver determines when your hungry. Your liver makes the food we eat usable to our specialized tissues. If the liver's function is adversely affected by trying to accommodate an unbelievable amount of creatine, then the effect will be felt in in other "unrelated" metabolic chemical pathways. It's kind of like a "ripple" effect on the whole function of the liver. Your original metabolic rate and function, on the liver's end, is re-programed.
On the other hand, with all of the previous stated, none of the over 150 guys I played ball with in high school ever ended up hospitalized due to liver or kidney problems. BUT, they are ALL putting on major weight, (myself included), which is virtually uncontrollable.
What do you think? Sound familiar?
THANKS,
JAY
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First off, no offense or attacks meant. But when I got out of the military, I hit clubs, worked out, and basically ate a particular diet almost continuously for 2 years maintaining 189 on a 5'8" frame. I got married and my lifestyle changed only a little (discontinued the clubbing) and gained 60 pounds, and you know what...supplements had nothing to do with it. In constant activities where we are in competition, we drive ourselves harder than in the off season (yes I played football, wrestled, and threw shot and discus in high school) and it is almost consistent, we will get fat when we slow down our workouts. The longer the fatter.
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I agree with respondent #1. Most likely, your increase in weight is due to lower activity level, not the creatine. Once your body is tuned to a high calorie intake, it won't want to change even after your energy needs decrease.
You also mentioned that you stopped creatine, changed your diet, increased exercise, etc. You changed a lot of variables simultaneously! Was the shift from fat to lean due to discontinuing creatine, or instead, to the other changes you made?
Anyway, cheer up, you have lots of company. And I was surprised to learn that a lot of women like it that way!
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