Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
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Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#2I’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.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#3I’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.
5mg? That seems like a very small dose... the linked study says they administered 0.35g per kg - for me that'd be about 24g, which seems like a lot, though I guess people who are lifting weights might do that much daily for a week or two and then switch down to 5g/day.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#4I’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.
5mg? That seems like a very small dose... the linked study says they administered 0.35g per kg - for me that'd be about 24g, which seems like a lot, though I guess people who are lifting weights might do that much daily for a week or two and then switch down to 5g/day.
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.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#5I’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.
5 mg? We get about 1 gram of creatine through a varied diet and the body synthesize the rest. I would guess it to be purely placebo for you? All lifter recommend 3-5 g of supplementation daily.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
5mg? That seems like a very small dose... the linked study says they administered 0.35g per kg - for me that'd be about 24g, which seems like a lot, though I guess people who are lifting weights might do that much daily for a week or two and then switch down to 5g/day.
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.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
5mg? That seems like a very small dose... the linked study says they administered 0.35g per kg - for me that'd be about 24g, which seems like a lot, though I guess people who are lifting weights might do that much daily for a week or two and then switch down to 5g/day.
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.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
5mg? That seems like a very small dose... the linked study says they administered 0.35g per kg - for me that'd be about 24g, which seems like a lot, though I guess people who are lifting weights might do that much daily for a week or two and then switch down to 5g/day.
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.
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Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#9Earlier 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.
Correct. I mistyped.
Re: Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
#10I’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.
5mg? That seems like a very small dose... the linked study says they administered 0.35g per kg - for me that'd be about 24g, which seems like a lot, though I guess people who are lifting weights might do that much daily for a week or two and then switch down to 5g/day.
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.