Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
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Re: Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
#2this article is garbage, likely just written by AI without any proofreading. so many things in the article are wrong after reading the study a bit. for example, study says 73 people, article says 64. Article says only part of the participants were in a caloric deficit. Study says "All participants followed a diet plan aligned with the American Heart Association's macronutrient recommendations (55% carbohydrate, 15% protein, 30% fat) to induce a modest energy deficit of approximately 300–500 kcal/day.". etc, etc
skip the article, read the study at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15502783.2026.2...
Re: Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
#3this article is garbage, likely just written by AI without any proofreading. so many things in the article are wrong after reading the study a bit. for example, study says 73 people, article says 64. Article says only part of the participants were in a caloric deficit. Study says "All participants followed a diet plan aligned with the American Heart Association's macronutrient recommendations (55% carbohydrate, 15% p…
You will consume slop on HN and you will be happy.
Re: Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
#4The question is: does it increase muscle nuclei or just water volume?
Re: Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
#5The question is: does it increase muscle nuclei or just water volume?
good question, and DXA won't tell you the answer there (they used DXA in the study) So not an especially convincing study in that case, since creatine leads to increased water retention.
Re: Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
#6The question is: does it increase muscle nuclei or just water volume?
(A meta analysis)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5679696/?utm_source...
> For example, over 8 weeks of resistance training in young men, creatine supplementation resulted in a faster increase in satellite cell number, myonuclei per muscle fiber, and muscle fiber size.
Re: Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
#7The question is: does it increase muscle nuclei or just water volume?
(A meta analysis) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5679696/?utm_source... > For example, over 8 weeks of resistance training in young men, creatine supplementation resulted in a faster increase in satellite cell number, myonuclei per muscle fiber, and muscle fiber size.
that's an entirely different study with different goals
Re: Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
(A meta analysis) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5679696/?utm_source... > For example, over 8 weeks of resistance training in young men, creatine supplementation resulted in a faster increase in satellite cell number, myonuclei per muscle fiber, and muscle fiber size.
that's an entirely different study with different goals
The question was asked whether creatine increases muscle nuclei or just water volume, and I provided a study (well, a meta-study which is referring to a specific study) which showed that creatine supplementation increased the muscle nuclei compared to no supplementation. The specific study referred to is titled "Creatine supplementation augments the increase in satellite cell and myonuclei number in human skeletal muscle induced by strength training"
Re: Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's an entirely different study with different goals
The question was asked whether creatine increases muscle nuclei or just water volume, and I provided a study (well, a meta-study which is referring to a specific study) which showed that creatine supplementation increased the muscle nuclei compared to no supplementation. The specific study referred to is titled "Creatine supplementation augments the increase in satellite cell and myonuclei number in human skeletal mu…
the interesting claim about the study in the OP is that creatine increases muscle mass in non-trained/sedentary individuals. i haven't seen that claim previously (backed by a study) and took the question from user "15155" to be about that specifically. the claim that it increases muscle mass when combined with resistance training seems to be long-settled though
Re: Creatine improves muscle mass and cognitive function even without exercise
#10this article is garbage, likely just written by AI without any proofreading. so many things in the article are wrong after reading the study a bit. for example, study says 73 people, article says 64. Article says only part of the participants were in a caloric deficit. Study says "All participants followed a diet plan aligned with the American Heart Association's macronutrient recommendations (55% carbohydrate, 15% p…
You may be right about the article but 64 is the correct number:
64 completed week 12 and were included in the repeated-measures analysis.