Kidney Beans
YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 12:33PM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Stuff crashes your kidneys and liver. Run 1 second faster to die 10 years earlier.

Tell yourself its worth it.
will start listening when...
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 12:40PM - in reply to Kidney Beans Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Please provide links to peer reviewed scientific papers. Thank you.
Shoebacca
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 12:52PM - in reply to Kidney Beans Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It will definitely cause bloating.
will start listening when...
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 1:02PM - in reply to Kidney Beans Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
...still waiting for links to peer reviewed scientific papers...
Liver pate
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 1:18PM - in reply to will start listening when... Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

will start listening when... wrote:

Please provide links to peer reviewed scientific papers. Thank you.


"Creatine is LIKELY SAFE for most people when used at recommended doses. ...

When taken by mouth in high doses, creatine is POSSIBLY UNSAFE. There is some concern that it could harm the kidney, liver, or heart function. However, a connection between high doses and these negative effects has not been proven."

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/873.html

This article also lists the safety concerns.
TrackCoach
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 2:22PM - in reply to will start listening when... Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

will start listening when... wrote:

Please provide links to peer reviewed scientific papers. Thank you.


How about someone what has watched its effect on athletes, starting with muscle spasms and kidney problems at age 18.
Say ahhhhh!!!
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 2:25PM - in reply to TrackCoach Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I don't think it helps endurance athletes does it?

Thought it was more for wrestlers and American football players
chauncey
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 2:31PM - in reply to TrackCoach Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

TrackCoach wrote:

[quote]will start listening when... wrote:

Please provide links to peer reviewed scientific papers. Thank you.


How about someone what has watched its effect on athletes, starting with muscle spasms and kidney problems at age 18.[/quote]


Do you understand the difference between a peer-reviewed paper and an anecdote?
believe what you want
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 3:17PM - in reply to chauncey Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The intent of peer reviewed paper is to sell drugs, not to prove or even mention the safety of them except to say that they're all A-okay.
so true so true
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 3:23PM - in reply to believe what you want Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

believe what you want wrote:

The intent of peer reviewed paper is to sell drugs, not to prove or even mention the safety of them except to say that they're all A-okay.


Yeah, all those peer-reviewed papers Einstein wrote...he was just trying to sell drugs.
chauncey
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 3:35PM - in reply to believe what you want Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

believe what you want wrote:

The intent of peer reviewed paper is to sell drugs, not to prove or even mention the safety of them except to say that they're all A-okay.



And with that, I think you've just excused yourself from any rational, adult conversation about science or medicine.
the last hope for society
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 3:48PM - in reply to believe what you want Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

believe what you want wrote:

The intent of peer reviewed paper is to sell drugs, not to prove or even mention the safety of them except to say that they're all A-okay.



Yes, because each journal has a specific set-schedule that rotates each year. I didn't know peer reviewed papers about undulating periodization vs linear periodization were also about selling drugs as well.
Films
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 4:38PM - in reply to Shoebacca Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Shoebacca wrote:

It will definitely cause bloating.


THIS.

I watched one of my good friends, a D1 Football Player, balloon from 170 to 195 over the course of one summer. He just looked fat, but...man...he got really strong...was doing a ton of lifting and sprinting.

Two years later, he stopped talking the stuff and was done with football and shrunk to 160 lbs - he started running with me. We were walking downtown one day and this girl, who had briefly met him two years previously did not believe me when I told her who he was. She also didn't find him as cute as before...which again proves that chicks don't like waif-like men.

Sorry...this was just a little story....don't take creatine.
luv2run
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 5:56PM - in reply to Kidney Beans Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Nonsense...

I would not take creatine because it would not help with my goals.

Now if I were in a sport that required power (football or a track sprinter) then I would take it to improve my weight training--the key is not just taking the creatine, but doing the proper training to take advantage of it.
Huh?
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 6:08PM - in reply to Kidney Beans Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
This thread is like a LR time warp. Welcome to the 20th century!
dr. go
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/15/2012 6:19PM - in reply to Huh? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The cells of the kidneys and liver regenerate. Just stop using, and back to normal. Refer to alcoholics and drug addicts, like old rockers Stephen Tyler and Mick Jagger. They did much more damage than some high school or college kid spending a few bucks at the GNC, and they are still kicking.
Lo lo p
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/16/2012 9:25AM - in reply to Films Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Films wrote:

[quote]Shoebacca wrote:

It will definitely cause bloating.


THIS.

I watched one of my good friends, a D1 Football Player, balloon from 170 to 195 over the course of one summer. He just looked fat, but...man...he got really strong...was doing a ton of lifting and sprinting.

Two years later, he stopped talking the stuff and was done with football and shrunk to 160 lbs - he started running with me. We were walking downtown one day and this girl, who had briefly met him two years previously did not believe me when I told her who he was. She also didn't find him as cute as before...which again proves that chicks don't like waif-like men.

Sorry...this was just a little story....don't take creatine.[/quote]


Sounds like he should start taking creating again?
brogan1
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/16/2012 9:39AM - in reply to Lo lo p Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Lo lo p wrote:
Sounds like he should start taking creating again?


I was thinking the same thing. It sounded like an argument FOR taking creatine.
 
RE: YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO TAKE CREATINE! 5/16/2012 12:49PM - in reply to Kidney Beans Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Stay safe, bro.