Now that Methyl-1-testosterone and all the prohormones are banned?

Also, creatine works by getting more water to your cells when you need it, but is it that effective/worth the price?

Jesus son, are you serious?

Creatine is probably the most cost effective supplement to date and M1T definately doesn't increase your testosterone. It's a synthetic steroid therefore shutting your own hormonal production down. You need to exert much caution before buying a product.

and i dont think you understand how creatine works

teh creatine is a steroid!!! It's on the ban list next

hMG, for sure. you're going to need some hookups for the source but its been the big talk as of late

Creatine, from what I understand, has actually 2 main benefits associated with it that this early in the supplement game, you should be interested in, and a few drawbacks you should be aware of.

Benefit one: more ATP and energy for working out. You can do more repetitions in a given set, you recover more quickly between sets AND post workout

ATP is the body's energy currency, Creatine leads to the production of more ATP.
more creatine = more ATP = more energy at any given time to do work.

your body produces around 2 or 3 grams of creatine a day, if all other factors (body weight, diet, mitochondrial density, etc) are kept equivalent, we could assume that an individual producing 4 or 5 grams of creatine a day would have more energy to perform work.

An individual who supplements their diet with foods high in creatine (meat, or even better, creatine monohydrate powder) will have higher levels of creatine circulating in the blood stream (what you are is what you eat)

Benefit two: Hypertrophy. Creatine does cause water to be drawn into the muscles, making them appear larger, which is the ultimate reason for bodybuilding.

Generally, when you first start regularly using creatine, your body gains a great deal of water weight in the muscles, making them appear much larger. A 200 lb individual can expect to gain around 10 - 12 pounds I believe.

Not sure how this works, but when I first started on Creatine monohydrate, I gained around 20 lbs in a little under 7 weeks. I think it was a combination of my diet was fantastic, I had just started taking my lifting seriously, and I'm sure I hit a growth spurt because I went up a shoe size and my voice dropped a bit, but it was fuckin' sweet. I got stretch marks. Fuck yeah.


that should sum it up.

Drawback one: Your body starts to produce less of its own creatine.

I'm not really sure what the system is in your body which regulates it, but all I know is that after a while of taking it, your body produces less of its own creatine. it takes a week or two for your body to get back up to it's normal levels once you quit the supplemental creatine. Some lifters choose to cycle on and off of creatine (8 weeks on, 3 off for example) though some don't, and I havn't seen any research stating that supplemental creatine is permanently detrimental to the body's own supply of it.

Drawback Two: kidney something or other. maybe water poisoning. You get thirsty as fuck and start drinking shit tons of water and you might overdilute your bodily fluids, so just don't over do it or you start cramping up, also, gatorade.

Hmm.

For an actual researched article instead of one which was pulled out of one handsome, well muscled ass, check out http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/gastelu8.htm

I'm going to go lay in the sun now.