The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Your creatinine levels, which by the way, will be elevated if you're taking creatine or you're exercising hard. Your doctor will say your creatinine levels are elevated. And you say, well, great. Well, my creatine intake is elevated too. So take that. It's not going to be a problem necessarily.
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I've been recommending this to patients for 6 months now. The big shift is patients actually do it because the explanation is concrete.
Same in nutrition counseling. The before/after framing helps.
Tracking with a CGM on top of this for 3 months. Variability dropped quickly and stayed dropped.
Worth noting the 0.71 SMD in the Kreider meta is in trained athletes. Effect in untrained adults runs closer to 0.3 — still meaningful, but the panel should reflect that gradient.
Good catch. Could the brief surface the training-status interaction inline?
Um, but you will likely see an increase in your creatinine if you start taking creatine.
getting more creatine from meet in your diet will increase your serum creatinine but it's not an indication of declining kidney function it's just an indication that you have more of the breakdown products of creatine in your diet
sometimes when people take creatine commonly this happens if people eat more meat as well you will see the creatini on your blood work go up now creatinine is our surrogate marker for kidney function in Western medicine it's not toxic in and of itself it's not a pathological substance
if you're a person who doesn't have perfect kidney function you do probably want to talk with your doctor before you take it and this is very important you want to make sure that they know you're taking it before they do any blood test to measure your creatinin
high doses of creatine can impact serum doses of creatinin which we would um we would use as one of the metrics to to determine kidney function
in our patients that have anything but perfect kidney function if they're taking um creatine we typically have them stop uh for a couple of weeks before we do a blood test
If you take creatine and your lab work shows elevated creatinine, it’s often a false alarm, not a sign your kidneys are shot.
make sure if you're on creatin supplement tell your doctor because it's logical that your creatinin in the blood will be elevated that's just from the metabolism of the supplement
5 g of creatine monohydrate daily improves muscle strength and lean mass in healthy adults at standard training loads.
Creatine improves cognitive performance, especially under sleep deprivation and high cognitive load.
Creatine improves cardiovascular health markers and reduces all-cause mortality risk.
Creatine supports bone-mineral density in post-menopausal women when paired with resistance training.
Women need higher creatine doses (8–10 g/day) than men to reach the same intramuscular saturation.