Re:Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle ...
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @12:34PM
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> And yet the OP study claims otherwise.
Why is this one study more believable than the others?
> Also hell, your own damn link says that elite athletes seem to get no benefit from creatine vs younger ones,
Where are you seeing that? All I could find was the opposite:
> In trained athletes, creatine has been reported to reduce body fat and improve some measures of anaerobic exercise performance, strength, and power output.
But regardless,
> meaning that its not really increasing muscle mass, just a combination of placebo, water retention, and maybe a burst of energy in the early stages of getting fit.
doesn't follow; it's perfectly plausible that something could help more in initial training but actually work then.
Why is this one study more believable than the others?
> Also hell, your own damn link says that elite athletes seem to get no benefit from creatine vs younger ones,
Where are you seeing that? All I could find was the opposite:
> In trained athletes, creatine has been reported to reduce body fat and improve some measures of anaerobic exercise performance, strength, and power output.
But regardless,
> meaning that its not really increasing muscle mass, just a combination of placebo, water retention, and maybe a burst of energy in the early stages of getting fit.
doesn't follow; it's perfectly plausible that something could help more in initial training but actually work then.