Dr. Darren Candow

But it was still within the biological range and no measure of hair follicle thinning or loss was done.

The cool thing is just a few years ago, they decided to put this theory to the test.

And five grams in young males for about six to eight weeks of training caused no detrimental effect from hair thinning, follicle loss.

So my appearance was probably based on something else.

So there's no evidence to that as well.

Myth number five, creatine causes muscle cramps.

No, I think this is so overplayed.

When creatine is taken into the body and water will follow it, now you're super hydrating the muscle.

So one of the main issues with muscle cramps is it could be dehydration in the muscle.

Some people have heard of sodium potassium.

That's why Gatorade was invented.

But if anything, sodium decreases muscle cramps and it's super hydrate.

So in the hotter environments, June, July, August, creatine is going to be one of your best friends.

helped gain muscle mass through a training regime oh yes so this is actually showing now that when you take creatine supplementation you're actually getting an improvement in training volume so when you go in the weight room you look at the load you're lifting by the reps by the set so it actually goes up um and then when you don't obviously it would go down over time as well so the cool thing here is that one of the main reasons you get an enhancement in performance

is that creatine seems to enhance training capacity.

So a lot of people say, I've taken creatine, now I got an increase in the number of reps or sets that I can perform, and that probably leads to a stimulation over time.

So this is a eight-week study?

That is an eight-week study, very short term as well.

So you can see that the number of weeks came down when they weren't taking creatine, and then when they started to take it, it went up as well.

And this leads to another important point.