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.
Some people state that the creatine loading phase will achieve the maximum creatine stores in a shorter time frame. Others think that the loading phase really is not necessary and it’s a ploy by the creatine manufacturers to use more creatine. It is said the body can only take so much of the creatine in and the excess store just gets excreted I personally do not load when going back on creatine. Maybe I should though and compare both scenarios as some swear by it saying that they see the effects of creatine come quicker.
So bottom line is the answer is inconclusive.
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