I was hyped on it until I read there was some controversy about it making your hair fall out. Nope.
There's been no studies that verify that claim as far as I know.
Found this review which backs up what you said:
Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
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Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#32Taking creatine cured my lightheadedness that occurs when standing up after squatting for a few minutes, which happens a lot at my job (plumbing). It also reduced other negative effects of sleep deprivation, such as impaired cognition, but to a lesser degree.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#33Taking creatine cured my lightheadedness that occurs when standing up after squatting for a few minutes, which happens a lot at my job (plumbing). It also reduced other negative effects of sleep deprivation, such as impaired cognition, but to a lesser degree.
Orthostatic hypotension
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have to mean 5g, as does the guy who responded to you who seems to have made the same mistake. The recommended dose on most creatine containers is around 5 grams. 5mg is so little that it would be impossible to measure without a mg scale.
The last sentence there is an impressively neat tautology. I love it
I always wondered why I couldn’t measure mg with my gram scale! I just kept asking myself where are the sig figs?
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#35Taking creatine cured my lightheadedness that occurs when standing up after squatting for a few minutes, which happens a lot at my job (plumbing). It also reduced other negative effects of sleep deprivation, such as impaired cognition, but to a lesser degree.
I don't know if you know this yet, but what greatly helps me when I've stood up too fast and am on the verge of 'seeing stars' is tensing up my abdominal muscles, which essentially helps push back the blood towards the brain.
I figured, if it's good enough for fighter pilots pulling 8g maneuvers, it should be good enough for me accidentally getting out of bed too quickly. And turns out it works!
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#36Taking creatine cured my lightheadedness that occurs when standing up after squatting for a few minutes, which happens a lot at my job (plumbing). It also reduced other negative effects of sleep deprivation, such as impaired cognition, but to a lesser degree.
How much do you take? How often?
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#37Taking creatine cured my lightheadedness that occurs when standing up after squatting for a few minutes, which happens a lot at my job (plumbing). It also reduced other negative effects of sleep deprivation, such as impaired cognition, but to a lesser degree.
Same though I'm sadly not qualified for plumbing and had spent a lot of money for plumbing issues. Is that how you got into the business ? Your Profile states that you are "just another programmer". This is BTW what I love about HN, intelligent people from all walks of life, South American Neuroscientists, Pakistani Particle Physicists, Australian Professors of European Philosophy, Chinese Poets, NY Musicians designing their own Guitar pedals, Radical GNU/OS Evangelists from Kazakhstan commingling with Italian Plumbers and Nevada Hippies that worship the Sun Gods by running their website on the power that the heavens giveth.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#38Taking creatine cured my lightheadedness that occurs when standing up after squatting for a few minutes, which happens a lot at my job (plumbing). It also reduced other negative effects of sleep deprivation, such as impaired cognition, but to a lesser degree.
Same though I'm sadly not qualified for plumbing and had spent a lot of money for plumbing issues. Is that how you got into the business ? Your Profile states that you are "just another programmer". This is BTW what I love about HN, intelligent people from all walks of life, South American Neuroscientists, Pakistani Particle Physicists, Australian Professors of European Philosophy, Chinese Poets, NY Musicians designi…
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Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#39https://archive.is/TvpRr Although, I could see this being beneficial in fields where labour is scarce (e.g.: the medical field), I fear it could lend towards a "sleep deprivation is okay, just take creatine" rationale in other fields.
Why does medical get an exception for poor treatment
It's impossible for doctors and nurses to pass on everything they know about a patient during shift changes, which can be seen in the form of spikes in deaths and other bad outcomes right after care is handed over to a new team. Hence why they tend to do longer shifts.
That effect is eventually balanced out by exhaustion, sleep deprivation, etc taking the same toll they do on everyone. Theoretically If you could reduce the impact of sleep deprivation, we could push shift lengths further, reduce the amount of turnover in carers a patient sees even more, and receive even further benefits in health outcomes.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything I've ever come across suggests 3-5g per day, with some folks doing a 20-25g loading protocol to saturate your muscles in the first week.
Mitchell Hooper, world strongman champion, takes 10g a day..but he's built different :-)
Too many people in this thread are conflating taking creatine for cognitive effects with taking it for weight lifting and strength performance.
If you are taking weight lifting doses for cognitive effects, you are effectively 'doing it wrong' and will notice a significant weight gain from the extra water retention.