If You Take Creatine, Scientists Have Fascinating News

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Sorry, gym rats, but all that creatine you've been relying on? It may have been for nothing, according to a new clinical trial — at least at the dose you were probably taking it. After having over fifty people undergo a 12-week resistance training program, a team of researchers in Australia found that the group who took creatine supplements on a daily basis didn't have more substantial gains that the group that didn't, as they wrote in a study published in the journal Nutrients. "We've shown that taking five grams of creatine supplement per day does not make any difference to the amount of lean muscle mass people put on while resistance training," said senior author Mandy Hagstrom, an exercise scientist at UNSW Sydney, in a statement about the work. "The benefits of creatine may have been overestimated in the past, due to methodological problems with previous studies." This may come as an assault on a hallowed institution of weightlifting wisd ... Read full article.