I've read the sticky but it doesn't say much about Creatine

You serious? All my family from my father side are bald, luckily I'm 24 and still got all my hair line and not suffering from balding. So I shouldn't take creatine, right?

>So is this bullshit?
Correct. It is broscience to sell expensive supplements to idiots

It increases DHT which is the type of testosterone that effects people prone to male pattern baldness. it's not chemotherapy so your hairs not gonna fuckin drop in chunks, if you see a little bit of shedding you can just stop

>creatine
>expensive

Pick one

I used to take finasteride since I was 18, cuz back then I notice I was losing hair. I stopped 1 year ago (i'm 24) and so far haven't noticed any difference in losing hair. I have a thicker hair due to the treatment, but so far I managed to keep my hair line.

Finasteride lowers your DHT levels, so taking finasteride and creatine wouldn't cancel each other?

there is a lot of bullshit proprietary epic meme creatine powders out there, but you're right the pure stuff is dirt cheap

Ok, here's all the shit you need to know about creatine, because it's late at night, I'm drunk and have an assignment I don't want to do.

>Sometimes your body is lifting or thinking or being jacked off and it needs a really quick thing to burn for energy
>Creatine is that thing
>If your body has creatine, it's a molecule that the body can use to fuel you for a few minutes
>It's naturally occurring in food, but not in such large amounts, so if you were gonna have a severe reaction, you probably would have had one by now. If you die though, it's not my fault, and you probably used it wrong
>Supplementing with it is more abundant, and it's really cheap (brandnames don't matter by the way; just get monohydrate)
>Makes you retain water and think better
>It increases muscular endurance
>Say you're benching a whopping 15kg, and you just can't make it past 3 reps
>On creatine you might find yourself hitting 4 or 5 reps before you give out
>This slowly has an effect over a few weeks or months of training; more weight moved=more gainz

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>Now this shit does have downsides
>Because of increased water retention, you need more water
>Not a massive amount; just maybe an extra glass during the day
>You drink it dissolved in water/juice so it shouldn't be a huge issue anyway unless you aren't drinking enough water anyway
>If you take creatine straight and it lodges in your throat, it can cause bad shit to happen, like nausea or vomiting
>The simple solution of this is to drink a glass of water after your creatine, which will help you since you're probably a stereotypical Veeky Forums autist who's dehydrated anyway
>You might look slightly more bloated initially because of water retention
>A tiny amount of the population are "non responders" which means it may not effect you at all; unlikely though, those are rare as fuck
>Your parents may think you're on crack when you have large amounts of white powder in plain packaged bags (assuming you don't buy some ridiculously fancily packaged shhillshit)
>If you get drunk while using creatine you should drink another glass of water; shit can sometimes dehydrate people. Mixed with booze, it's a pain in the fucking ass
>It may become sentient and fuck your girlfriend
>May actually be too amazing of a substance to be Earthly, in which case you might be snorting a martian's sperm

Anyway, take creatine if you have a spare $10; you won't regret it. I dissolve mine in juice. Any questions?

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Are creatine capsules worth it?

>cycling creatine
Lol

Studies, which my drunk ass can find for you if you really want, have shown monohydrate to be at least as effective as creatine in pill form. Plus it's a billion times cheaper.

So, no, they're not worth it. Just get powder. That being said, if you brought some, or your Dad got you some or some shit, it's still very much usable. Just perhaps not the best choice budget wise.

Okay, I don't usually post but here it goes.

Buy creatine, its the single best supplement I've ever taken and the cheapest. There are no side effects, you don't have to cycle on/off you can just take 5g a day from here on out.

I had been working out for over 3 years having never tried creatine before, I plateaued in strength pretty hard and wasn't really getting anywhere, within a month of taking creatine all of my lifts went up 25lbs for the same number of reps. I feel much more energised in the gym and able to throw around the weights.

I have heard its a person to person basis on benefits of taking it but for a measly $15 a tub its worth a try.

>taking creatine
>raising your DHT levels om purpose
have fun going bald

But as I stated before, I have a long history of baldness running in the family. I don't want to risk that.

I didn't read that since I assumed it was all retarded broscience. Looks like I was right. It's not roids, the hair loss thing isn't really gonna happen with creatine unless you dose the absolute fucking shit out of it. For 30 years. Then *maybe* you'll get thining. For the reason that you're now around 50 and that's when men start going bald.

Anyway, it's not a fucking steroid, it doesn't cause baldness. Your dad should polish his scalp because that would be hilarious.

I haven't done the research but is there strong evidence to support this? I'm 25 and my dad is balding, but i've been taking creatine for a while now with no detrimental affects to my hairline.

>Hair loss is not going to happen
sure thing brah
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19741313

Holy shit I'm certain some dude is making these threads everyday. For the past week there has been a thread a day about fucking creatine. It costs like 10 bucks for 3 months but the way you retards discuss it you'd think it's some sort of holy elixir

Well, it raises DHT levels. And DHT is one of the reasons for balding. That's why people take finasteride.

No, there isn't. You've said yourself right then you haven't seen an effect; even if creatine was able to do that, it clearly doesn't have that effect on you.

Oh, look, it's this response again. Quoted right from your link:
>Further investigation is warranted
Creatine hasn't caused hair loss in a lot of people. It HAS caused SOME warning signs that hair loss MIGHT POTENTIALLY be an issue some time in the future. THat means that the scientists don't want to say "creatine is totally safe", but what they are telling you by that is "Look, take the fucking creatine, it probably won't really do shit to your hair".

Just newfags man. Hopefully they'll lurk and learn.

>Further investigation is warranted
Nice cherry picking. Their recommendation is because of the unknown side effects of circulating androgen composition. They are god damn sure that creatine fucks with your hormone profile, and therefore needs more research because of the "frequency in using". There is a reason why the goverment is 10-15 years behind everybody else in recommendations, it's because they need several papers and not just one, in order to justify new guidelines.

That's not cherrypicking at all. It's literally in the conclusion. The second fucking sentence.

And yes, it does effect hormones. So does me eating a handful of nuts. Your article doesn't warrant the fearmongering going on in this thread.

>so this is bullshit
no, creatine is one of the longest used, most researched supplements out there. The science behind it is simple, creatine aids in the body's creation of ATP. More ATP = longer workout (or more reps generally). Seriously go research for yourself instead of trusting a bunch of people on a Afghani animated porn forum

there was literally only ONE study with a small sample size done on it increasing DHT. stop spouting bullshit

>oh shit getting called out for being a retard
>no no see I meant the OTHER creatine, the one you've probably never heard of