Natural Creatine Sources
My friend asked me “Why I am taking creatine when my it is naturally in my bodyâ€, the reason is that the majority of people only ingest one gram of creatine from food sources per day.
If you eat a lot of red meat, do not expect to see dramatic results from creatine. One pound of beef equals approximately 2 grams of creatine, and 4.6 grams can be found in every pound of herring.
To see the best effects of creatine supplements, it is no good relying on red meats for your source of creatine, there is simply not enough produced. You will need to regularly take creatine supplements.
20080825 12:20 am
i heard that creatine has lots of medical problems though including liver damage. Also it isnt regulated through the official food testers people so it might be not clean when purchased! be carefull i sugest up your mass as an alternative. google it.
20080928 4:01 am
Officially Creatine is considered by the major governing bodies of food safety to be safe, this means that it is probably, but not definitely safe.
20081019 12:37 am
I read where senior citizens can build muscles by taking creatine, and just sitting and waiting to feel stronger almost immediately! Is this so? Let me at it! Some info would be appreciated. THanks.
20081122 4:57 pm
no you can not get bigger by just taking creatine you need to work out with it
other wise it does nothing
20090103 11:49 am
Creatine has been found to cause kidney damage in rats. No trials have been done on humans yet. Creatine just increases water uptake in muscles making them bigger in size.
20090312 6:00 am
Creatine is synthesized from glycine, arginine and methionine. Why not get it naturally from their food sources? Let the body generate what it needs. This option is good for vegetarians as well.
20090323 12:39 am
Creatine can be phosphorylated in cells to create phosphocreatine. When the bond between the phosphate and the creatine is broken, it releases a large amount of energy very quickly, even more quickly then ATP being broken down into ADP and inorganic phosphate.
Phosphocreatine provides intense muscular energy for the several seconds before it is all depleted. Claims that creatine increases endurance dramatically are incorrect, as phosphocreatine is as stated above used up incredibly fast. This power increase will be felt each time the muscles are given sufficient time to fully recover their ATP and rephosphorylate the creatine (a few minutes, how long exactly depends on many factors.)
Red meat is an amazingly good source of creatine, and to say that it is inferior just because another source is higher is foolish and incorrect. As for the kidney and liver damage, I am not the FDA, but as it is a natural substance in the body, sensible supplementation is although unnecessary for all but the most intense bodybuilder, not dangerous.
Vegetarians tend to be deficient in creatine, and would actually benefit from light supplementation. The body can only store a number smaller than 1 gram/kg bodyweight creatine, so taking huge doses is wasteful.
20090325 6:39 am
…and all your actual science, from a university, just agrees with what MicroVita already said much more succinctly.
You should’ve just skipped straight to the last sentence.
20090419 12:21 am
Isn’t 1 gram/kg bodyweight a lot?! I am 67kg, so that means I can store 67 grams of creatine in my body? But I read that the amount needed for an average person was 5 grams a day. Is that true?
20090605 2:32 am
Good website,thank you.