| ▲ | adamking 2 hours ago |
| Creatine is one of the few supplements I actually notice a difference if I quit taking. Happy to see it’s benefits extend to beyond performance in the gym. |
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| ▲ | YZF 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| The only thing I notice is the impact to my weight. I think it makes me marginally stronger but not a huge effect. I take it because research seems to indicate it's a net positive with a small effect and it seems very safe... |
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| ▲ | ravenstine 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Funny because I'm not sure I quite notice it immediately when I stop taking it, presumably since the body retains a certain amount of it. But I definitely notice a difference when taking it the first day after not having had it a little while, especially when taking 20+ grams a day. It gives me so much mental energy and alertness that I won't get a whole lot of sleep, but the next day I end up feeling just fine. If I remember correctly, there have been at least 2 studies that suggested high doses of creatine reduce the side effects of suboptimal sleep, and that definitely seems to be the case in my experience. |
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| ▲ | unshavedyak 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What sort of differences beyond gym related? |
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| ▲ | j45 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | After 10g or so, the excess starts going to the brain which helps quite a bit with brain energy. | | |
| ▲ | cryptoegorophy an hour ago | parent [-] | | What exactly does it do? What is brain energy? | | |
| ▲ | the_sleaze_ 38 minutes ago | parent [-] | | A good question, but we don't know what anti-depressants do or how they do it, same with anti-psychotics, mood stabilizers, psychedelics, etc. I think we can say we have good theories for creatine. We do know that it does do something at certain doses. |
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| ▲ | Mistletoe 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I feel like it makes me feel like crap and my brain weird every time I try it and searching my spreadsheet shows this effect many times when I forget and read something like the above article and try it again. Anyone else feel like this? |
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| ▲ | Silagi an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Are you increasing your water intake when you do? That sounds like dehydration. Creatine takes a large amount of water to appropriately process, and during the loading phase, your body is pushing substantially more water into your muscles. Anecdotally, if I don't drink something like an extra half gallon of water a day while loading at 15g/day, I show symptoms of dehydration. And I'm already drinking somewhere between a half gallon to a gallon a day. | | | |
| ▲ | willy_k an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes I can definitely “feel” it when I take it, especially so at 10g+. And it makes me overly reactive and somewhat irritable, and gives me a ton of energy that needs to be let out lest the former two get worse. | |
| ▲ | davidmurdoch 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > searching my spreadsheet What does this mean? | | |
| ▲ | dgellow an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | They likely keep a journal of their mental state in a spreadsheet? Generally a good idea | |
| ▲ | Mistletoe an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I keep a spreadsheet about my health, blood work, any supplements I take, how they make me feel etc. The summary would be that I take zero supplements now haha. I have tried so so many. |
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