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  • Thanks to the rapid enshittification of Google I can’t seem to find the actual studies anymore but it’s just how your body and homeostasis works. You can find plenty of older body building forums talking about it though, it was just a known fact.

    The good news is it’s by all accounts pretty temporary, about 1-3 months before you return to pre-supplement levels. The problem as always is these studies are never on long term effects, they’ll give people 3-5g for a few months and then record the results.

    It’s never “we made gym rats stop their twenty year old habit to record what happens because they’re gym rats and who the hell knows what else they put in their body.”

    Creatine is probably safe if you keep it below 3-5g. The point is that we don’t know the long term negatives and the benefit isn’t building more muscle it’s having more energy for the workout.

    If you’re not the type of gym goer that exhausts themselves every day you don’t need it.




  • The other word for that is bloating. I’m not sure why you’d want that normally, cells already regulate for their optimal water content by drinking enough water.

    I could understand the logic of it for a marathon runner and such but studies have shown it has no notable benefit in races so if that is a benefit it’s washed out by other factors.

    Also, by all accounts that effect either goes away after a couple weeks of use or progresses into an actual problem.






  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksThanks bro
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    Creatine doesn’t actually help build muscles by itself it just gives you more energy and the long term effects are unknown other than developing a dependency so idk maybe just stick to the literal overdose of caffeine in more traditional pre-workouts.

    Or don’t, it’s probably fine. I’m sure the dudes sticking $10k in tren a week into their bodies to sell you the damn stuff wouldn’t lie.