Creatine: Everything You NEED to Know Before Taking

When it comes to muscle building supplements, there are perhaps none better than creatine. In this video, I’m going to cover everything you need to know about creatine before taking it. We’ll go over all of the rumored side effects as well as the realistic boost to performance and muscle size that y

this is your muscles and this is creatine and this is your muscles on Creatine and this is one parent that wouldn’t let his son anywhere near that kind of steroid what’s up guys Jeff Cavalier at the next. com so obviously we have a lot to cover today because there’s a lot of people with a lot of confusion and a lot of questions about creatine I have a lot of questions when it comes to creatine and this evil steroid that I don’t want my Chanty anywhere near okay first of all Jesse is not a steroid and by the way why are you dressed like that and why are you speaking like that what are you talking about all concerned parents talk like this all concerned parents dress like this and all concerned fathers smoke a pipe I think you’re probably smoking something else but if you allow me to actually explain to you guys what it actually does to your body well then you’ll start to understand in simple terms what creatin really actually does you see when you work out that’s actually the equivalent like I said of this iPad it has to run and it has to function well in order to do this you need energy and to get energy we have a molecule in our bodies called ATP or osine triphosphate it has three phosphate groups attached to it when we work it just gives one of those phosphate groups away but it leaves us with something called a DP with two phosphates but when you supplement with creatine what you’re doing is turbocharging your body’s ability to regenerate that ATP to allow you to keep working much like when creatine enters the muscle cell it actually bonds with a phosph F like this external charger does with this cord at this point it could actually help to regenerate the iPad by simply plugging to it and keeping it going well that’s what happens in your body this phosphor creative molecule is the powerhouse it’s what allows you to continue to work hard by just simply dropping off one of those phosphates to that ADP getting it back to ATP and then allowing you to keep working and it actually does a really good job specifically in those high output heavy burst activity like strength work so it does a good job at helping to increase your strength but the second thing it does is it actually helps to increase muscle size and that’s because anytime a molecule enters a cell it often times brings with it H2O or water well that actually causes the cell itself to swell and as it swells you not only get a hypertrophy benefit from the cell swelling itself but it actually causes immediate weight gain and long term you’re getting a hydrated muscle cell and we know just like a plant if you want it to grow you got to give it water if you want a muscle cell to grow you better keep it hydrated we know that creting am of hydrate through both mechanisms can increase both muscle size and strength so you’re saying this magic powder increases muscle size and strength sounds like steroids to me as I was saying keep those steroids away from my sweet Chanty we know they are totally unsafe for our yous okay so obviously this is a burning question of yours and likely a legit question that a lot of concerned parents have not those cost playing as concerned parents Jesse but the difference is lightyears IND difference because the testosterone that you take as an anabolic steroid is a synthetic hormone that enters into the cell binds to these Androgen receptors and then most importantly enters into the nucleus to cause DNA changes to increase the expression of new muscle genetics giving you a chance to actually completely change what once was into something else so basically taking that iPad and creating a Macbook that’s not what’s happening when we look at the creatine again it’s just giving you more energy like that battery pack was so even though they might share the same physiological outcome in terms of size and strength they’re certainly different in terms of the magnitude the mechanism and even the legality of them because the magnitude is Lighty years different you’re not going to get ever as big taking creatine as you are anabolic steroids the mechanism is obviously very different in the legality we’re talking about a substance that is a class three drug that you’re going to likely go to jail for if you’re in possession of it versus an over-the-counter supplement that anybody can buy at GNC furthermore it’s known as a grass or G supplement which is generally recognized as safe by the FDA and it has mountains of evidence that show that it actually is safe long term as a matter of fact 21% of males in high school right now are taking creatin and 3% of females honestly from a safety perspective I don’t think they’re come much safer when it comes to supplements and for Mr try there uh again nothing to worry about okay so perhaps it’s not a steroid but explain this my coworkers said his son went bald from taking creatine I don’t want my sweet Chanty to part ways with his ravishing hair actually I think it has a lot less to do with your friend’s son and more to do with your friend for passing on the bad genetics that might lead to hair loss because when it comes to creatine and hair loss I I just don’t think the evidence is there again I think this is stemming from this confusion people have between steroids or testosterone and creatin and the effects that one has on the other because there is one single flaw study that was done back in 2009 of a bunch of rugby players who saw their serum levels of something called DHT which is a byproduct of testosterone that actually is linked to hair loss but only when it’s found in the follicle itself not just circulating in the blood and even in that study though their levels were elevated they didn’t see any evidence of hair loss in the players so just because we think that elevating DHT will cause a loss of hair in that person if you don’t see it happening it may not be related as a matter of fact just training hard like those players did can actually raise those levels of DHT this is one of those areas where correlation does not equal causation as a matter of fact it’s causing more fear so this is probably more likely that you’re going to cause hair loss by worrying about this than actually taking it in the first place okay but I’ve heard that creting can be quite damaging to the kidneys and so if there was ever any myth that was maybe only second to high protein diets causing your kidneys to fail it’s going to be the fact that creatine supplementation causes your kidney is a lot of problems and it’s just simply not the case and there’s no evidence for that however there is a reason for it and I want to explain why you might have heard that or why maybe even have had to have double checked your blood work because of something that sounds exactly like creatine but is actually much different and it’s called creatinin right there’s a big difference even though they look like they’re spelled the same one is the thing that we are trying to supplement with and the other is the wasteful byproduct of creatine in its breakdown you see we know that both creatine and that fos creatin that energy store right that battery pack can break down into this byproduct called creatinin what that does is actually travels to the kidneys through the blood where it gets filtered out and then excreted through your urine well the reason why people feel like creatine causes kidney damage is because when you supplement with this you’re going to have higher levels of creatinin in your blood just as a natural byproduct of having more of it in your system especially if you’re going through a loading phase that usually would be a