Talk:Creatine

Talk:Creatine/Archive 1: Sept 2004 – Aug 2006

Side Effects... For Real

This article needs to list side effects, and sources for the list of side effects. As is, this article would lead individuals to believe there are no side effects. This is not true. This is most likely due to Supplement companies contributing a lot of this article, most likely the ones named in the article. Muscletech is notorious for trolling sites and forums attempting to better themselves and their overpriced products, regardless, within a week or so someone should post the well documented side effects of creatine, or I'll write up a list of the side effects mentioned in documents from the Mayo Clinic.

Have removed this rubbish "causes large ejaculation from penis sometimes up to a gallon of fluids". ozboy 5/10/06

References

This link [1] needs to be added to the list of references at the bottom of the article. If anyone spots any other studies cited that aren't at the bottom, please add them. Thanks. Yankees76 17:42, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Someone should add...

Someone should add that Creatine is not an anabolic steroid and has no relation to anabolic steroids. This seems to be one of the most common misconceptions concerning creatine in the public that I know of. As absurd as it is. I think it atleast belongs here somewhere.

I agree with this opinion. I had the above misconception. I found the following article to be an interesting source: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/creatine.html .

Side effects?

How about adding the list of other effects recognized by the FDA (and some indication of how likely they are), and the foul body odor that creatine users are notorious for having?

Got a source for that? Yankees76 15:20, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For the body odor thing? Not a rigorous study. But the lead author of an article about creatine effects on brain function (C Rae, AL Digney, SR McEwan, TC Bates. Oral creatine monohydrate supplementation improves brain performance: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial. Proc. Royal Soc. B. 270/1529 (October 22, 2003), 2147-2150) has said in interviews that it makes its users smell worse. She'd be about as authoritative as it gets until there's a specific study on whether creatine makes body odor stronger, and who would fund that? Anecdotal sources and assertions spring up on a google search for <creatine "body odor">. The BBC published the statement too when reporting about the aforementioned article.

For other effects: FDA Special Nutritionals Adverse Event Monitoring System.

and MS Juhn et al. Oral creatine supplementation in male collegiate athletes: A survey of dosing habits and side effects. J. Am. Dietetic Assoc. 99:593-594, 1999.

The "function" section has been vandalized

I'm not sure what to do about it, since I'm new to Wikipedia. Just thought I'd post a notice here and hopefully it'll get taken care of. Stupid vandals.

a moment later* Oh, okay, I think I'll take a crack at reverting it to pre-vandal state. If it doesn't work out I'll undo it.

Clearance of Creatine and NCAA rules?

Can anyone tell me, how long does it take to clear creatine from your system....i.e. can you take it for a brief period and get benefits but not have it show up on drug test for a college athlete. Does anyone know if it is forbidden by the NCAA rules?

References for BBC

Is there any use of information from the BBC reference? In that reference the article covers a study in which mental ability increases in the short term from the usage of creatine as a result of increased energy available to the brain. This might be of relevance to the usage of creatine. Also, on a personal note, creatine does appear to increase mental as well as physical levels, specifically in the body's ability to put off rest/sleep for short periods of time. If someone can find a study which vouches for this, I would suggest to include it because I myself have been able to put off large amounts of sleep during short term periods of creatine usage while maintaining a greater than average mental capacity.

--Khorikoshi 17 December 2006