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Creatine loading is an area open to much discussion. If it is necessary or not does not seem to have been proven or decided.

So what actually is creatine loading?

Well it is what some of the creatine manufacturers recommend when you first start using the supplement. You take a higher dose of creatine each day say for the first 5 days and then onto a lower maintenance phase for a few weeks. There are many different variances based on amounts and frequencies. One example would be take a 5g dose of creatine 4 times a day and for the first 5 days then 2-5g for 5 weeks, then no creatine for 1-2 weeks. If you do not load initially a normal intake is 5g daily.

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Creatine is known as an energy replenisher. What it works in replenishing is a molecule called ATP (Adenine Tri Phosphate). The ATP is broken down in our bodies and in doing so releases the energy for our muscles during contraction. What actually happens to the ATP is that it loses a phosphate molecule and then it becomes ADP (Adenosine Diphosphate) with only 2 phosphate molecules. The ADP then is replenished through phosphates from the phosphocreatine molecule (creatine + phosphate) which leaves the bi product creatine to be excreted from our bodies. From the contraction a bi product is the production of lactic acid. This is stored in our muscles and by getting to much of this the muscle contractions stop, you will feel your muscles ‘burning up’ and heavy and have to stop the set. It’s a funny feeling when you just can’t lift anything anymore, even with the lightest weight. I find this is the most notable when doing a bicep workout.

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Just a quick news update on the well know nutritional supplement Creatine. It is to be used in a large study in America by the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to determine if the supplement can help to slow the progression of the degenerative brain disorder - Parkinson’s disease.

There are drugs at present that can reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease but there are none at present that can slow its progression.

The study will take place across 51 medical sites across the US and Canada and will involve 1720 people who have early stage Parkinson’s disease. Half will be receiving a placebo and half creatine and each participant will not know what they are receiving.

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