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2003/05/19, 01:59 PM
From a previous post:
"Women should avoid creatine. False.
As creatine, a natural substance found in foods such as fish and meat, doesn’t affect anabolic hormone function, women who train with intensity could benefit from creatine use. One study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that women could gain strength and reduce body fat with creatine use. In the study, 16 collegiate women lacrosse players loaded up with 20g of creatine and followed up with 2g for maintenance for a period of 5 weeks. At the end of the experiment, the creatine users significantly improved upper-body strength, while simultaneously decreasing the percent of body fat. The study also found no incidence of liver or kidney malfunction, as measured by blood metabolites during the five weeks. Since creatine doesn’t affect or alter anabolic hormone function, creatine won’t 'turn women into men.'”
*Quoted from "The Ultimate Creatine Teat," Universal Matters, Vol. 5, Issue 3, Pg. 9.
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Michael
"Trample the weak; hurdle the dead!"
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