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Supplements can be a great aid with your health and fitness goals. Combined with the proper exercise and nutritional plan they can be quite effective.

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Creatine and diabetes?!?!?

connolley
connolley
Posts: 38
Joined: 2003/02/05
United States
2003/02/06, 12:27 AM
A guy at the gym told me he didn't use creatine because diabetes runs in his family and creatine increase the risk by 90 percent. Now, obviously this guy might be a fruit cake, but I want to learn more about it because I know that creatine spikes insulin levels and diabetes negatively affects the bodies ability to make insulin. I love the effect creatine has had on me, but man, diabetes would really suck!
jbennett
jbennett
Posts: 1,558
Joined: 2001/02/28
United States
2003/02/06, 01:40 PM
Creatine by itself does not spike blood insulin levels. Its the amount of sugar taken with it that does. Creatine NEEDS a spike in insulin to be most effective. I know a guy who is a diabetic that times his creatine drink and insulin shots so that they work perfectly together. Needless to say, his body responds very well to creatine.

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