I have personally never taken creatine so I’m looking forward to see what your experience with it is, being someone who adheres to a similar way of eating as myself. The one thing that I’m curious about is whether or not you will retain that much water given the fact that you stay away from breads, grains and all the other bad carbs.

This will be interesting, I’ll make sure to stay tuned for the updates!! Thanks for being the guinea pig on this one!

All the Best,

Andrew

This is one I struggle with — often; the philosophical conundrum of knowing (and I know creatine has worked for me in the past) that creatine works, and the desire to not be financially linked, in an going way, to buying and taking creatine for the sake of some “vanity meat”. My own perspective is that I carry a reasonable amount of body meat as it is due to excellent eating and intense workouts, and though creatine will help add a bit of meat, it’s not worth the $$$. Would rather spend on recovery products as you, Mark S, and others have recommended. Still getting on-board that supplements (from beyond food) help — Mark’s post last week was good in that regard. That, the opinion of a man in his late 40′s.

Creatine works. There is lots of science out there. I’ve had a couple of posts on my blog:

http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com/search/label/creatine

Personally I take some for a few weeks every now and again. I think it does make me a bit stronger and more explosive. i also think it makes me look a bit “fuller”.

However there are some negatives: cramps ( I tend to get more cramps, especially in the calves, when on creatine), a diuretic effect – it makes me piss a lot and thirst a lot.

I think it is hard to argue that it is “primal”. In nature we simply would not be consuming so much creatine as when we supplement it. We couldn’t eat that much meat.