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The recommended dose is 5g per day. You can front-load creatine if you are deficient, but taking over 5g daily won’t do much. Edit: it’s 5g, not mg.
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The recommended dose is 5g per day. You can front-load creatine if you are deficient, but taking over 5g daily won’t do much. Edit: it’s 5g, not mg.
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The recommended dose is 5g per day. You can front-load creatine if you are deficient, but taking over 5g daily won’t do much. Edit: it’s 5g, not mg.
Recommended dose by whom? It's most popular in sports training and adjacent aesthetics, and the norm among that community is in grams. While most products are available as powders that you could perhaps measure out in milligrams, their reference dosage for advertising is usually 5g.
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.
I’ve been taking 5mg daily of Creatine for about 6 months now. It gives me a surprising amount of energy that is still very noticeable if I miss a day, even with a full 8 hours of sleep. A big surprise I got early on was that my previous coffee habit of 5+ cups per day just kind of disappeared. No longer needed to keep going, I think.
I’ve been taking 5mg daily of Creatine for about 6 months now. It gives me a surprising amount of energy that is still very noticeable if I miss a day, even with a full 8 hours of sleep. A big surprise I got early on was that my previous coffee habit of 5+ cups per day just kind of disappeared. No longer needed to keep going, I think.
Other consumables from meat with notable effects here are carnosine and taurine. Carnosine in particular helps with janitorial processes that happen during sleep.
I’ve been taking 5mg daily of Creatine for about 6 months now. It gives me a surprising amount of energy that is still very noticeable if I miss a day, even with a full 8 hours of sleep. A big surprise I got early on was that my previous coffee habit of 5+ cups per day just kind of disappeared. No longer needed to keep going, I think.
Is it just creatine? I've had some good results - improved mental clarity, just to discover it has taurine added.