high doses of creatine

[FLEX 2000]

j/w has anyone tried taking 25-30mg ED for a month or so? what were your gains like? waste or not?

i would assume after a short amount of time, you would be pissing alot of it out.

[The_Chicken_Daddy]

you kidneys would dis-own you.

[Severed Ties]

CD I doubt that would happen, creatines effect on the kidneys is as overblown as anabolic steroids are in general.

Flex all you would do is waste your money, their is no need to load creatine but you can saturate your creatine stores faster if you do load for the first week. After that it's been shown that you will piss out anything more than about 5 grams a day. A new study showed that only 3.5 grams a day may be the ideal mantainence dose.

ST

[The_Chicken_Daddy]

yeah i know ST. if that was the case then the primitive man would have shot kidneys from all the meat they took in.

[TreeTrunks]

Amen ST! The media blows supplements way out of porportion. When I was in high school a couple years back I told a guy I was working out with I took Creatine and he thought it was a steroid. People think since it goes through your kidneys obviously it has to shut them down if you take over 2mg. WTF!?!