The effects of creatine

As a sports nutrition supplement, creatine can effectively improve muscle strength, body durability and improve exercise performance. Although some people criticize it, as long as it analyzes, discusses and studies its mechanism, properties and precautions when taking it, some useful conclusions will be drawn.

   First of all, we should make it clear that creatine is not a hormone, it is essentially different from steroids, growth hormones, and testosterone. Since it realizes its function through the liver of the human body, it does not cause any interference or damage to the human endocrine system, while hormone drugs realize its function through forced induction or blocking of the pituitary gland. The human body does not have drug-dependent or physiological side reactions to creatine, and hormone drugs are different. Once people take hormone drugs, they will maintain a certain part of the body's functions at a higher level under the action of such drugs. Generally, after stopping taking them, this part of the functions will immediately decrease to the original or even lower than the original level. This is the so-called physiological side reaction. For example, some weight loss drugs containing hormones do have immediate effects during the use. However, once the medication is stopped, the weight will exceed the level of not taking the medicine. For example, some hormone-containing drugs for treating male diseases will immediately improve or disappear during the medication period, but the medication has been stopped, and the condition will become more serious. This is the harm of hormones. Creatine will not produce such an effect. It can help the human body reach and stabilize to a higher level within an appropriate and effective time period. In other words, it can help the human body shorten the process from quantitative change to qualitative change. After the human body breaks through the threshold platform of a certain stage, it is in a stable state.

    Scientific experiments show that among athletes who take creatine for the first time, they gain an average of 15-20 grams per day in the first week, and then the weight gain will last for one month, and then the average increase of 5-10 grams per day. Then the weight gain is less obvious. This process varies from person to person, and the weight gain is increased from 0.9 to 3 kg. Creatine has a periodic stimulation of muscle growth. After the stability period, it indicates the arrival of the next growth period, which is a spiral upward process.

  Creatine is mainly found in the liver. When the body moves, it can first automatically adjust the moisture entering the muscle tissue, causing the muscle cross-sectional muscle to expand. We know that according to the principle of exercise physiological mechanics, muscle strength is proportional to the cross-sectional area of ​​the muscle, that is, creatine increases the explosive power of the muscle in this way. Second, creatine can make storage energy to the muscle tissue for a high intensity and long-term energy, thereby increasing the muscle durability.

   If you know why creatine can increase explosive power and durability, it is not difficult to find out why creatine can increase the size of muscles. We know that one of the most basic principles of biomechanics is the principle of overcompensation payment. In layman's terms, the damage to the muscle tissue itself due to muscle workmanship will be repaired during rest and eating after training. This kind of repair is overcompensated. That is to say, the compensated muscle tissue will exceed the damaged tissue, and creatine just strengthens and deepens this compensation effect. Because the damage intensity after taking creatine exceeds the strength when not taking creatine, the compensation after taking creatine is also far exceeds the compensation when not taking creatine. Therefore, I can say loudly to bodybuilders and bodybuilders, don't worry, creatine is beneficial to you. If you want to get twice the result with half the effort, if you want to become a real bodybuilder.

  So, can you rest as long as you take creatine and just wait for your muscles to grow? If you understand creatine, you will not ask such a question. Without damage to muscle tissue, there will be no compensation. If you don’t train well, it is very stupid to just think about using other methods to improve. Only through arduous training and supplementation of creatine can you make progress. It should be clear at all times that training is the internal cause of muscle changes, creatine is the external cause, creatine can aggravate changes, but cannot cause changes. Creatine is the surface, and training is the source.

 Now let’s talk about the problem of hydrocalorie of creatine. Many people think that this is caused by creatine itself, and use “three parts poisonous” as an excuse to not take creatine. But what I want to say is that creatine is not a medicine, it is a training nutritional supplement. Of course, I don’t object to the issue of mastering the degree of consumption. This brings up another topic, that is, you must buy high-purity creatine from regular channels (at least 99%, preferably 99.99%). And it must be taken strictly in accordance with the requirements of experts or instructions. It is illegal to buy and sell unregistered creatine products in any pharmacy in the United States. Why should we emphasize the purity of creatine? Because creatine is made by chemical methods, it will inevitably produce two derivatives: dicyandiamide and dihydrotrium. dicyandiamide will increase the burden on the kidneys to excrete water, which means that the electrolyte ion concentration in the body cannot be maintained within a normal range, reducing the ion concentration. , and then accumulate a lot of water, which is what people often call water accumulation. But this is not the fault of creatine. In addition, the dihydrogen tricycline has the effect of dilating arterial blood vessels. If it contains a large amount of dihydrogen tricycline and takes creatine for a long time, it will eventually lead to death due to a burst of lung blood vessels during training. This is by no means a sensational intimidation, but a true fact. Due to the improvement of the production process, the purity of creatine has increased from 85%-90% of the beginning to 9 today 9% to 99.99%. Today's bodybuilding experts have basically solved the problem of hydrocalorie caused by taking creatine. In fact, it should be said that biological scientists helped these experts solve the problem. Because they reduced the content of dicyandiamide and dicyandiamide to an unprecedented level, today's contestants have achieved an unprecedented physique that their predecessors do not want to do anything, and have also expanded the unprecedented imagination of enthusiasts about the proportion of human bodies.

   After taking creatine reasonably, you should pay attention to training and do not train hard, because this can easily cause the fracture of the injured muscle ligament. Therefore, after taking creatine, you must adjust your training enthusiasm and do not overtrain.

  Don’t forget, for those with liver and renal insufficiency, please do not take creatine with a content of less than 99.9%. The body is important.