Taking creatine for a week like this doesn’t make you weigh more or gain more muscle in young, healthy men and women.

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Effects of acute creatine monohydrate supplementation on leucine kinetics and mixed-muscle protein synthesis.

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2001 Sep

The study gave people creatine the same way the claim says, and found their weight and muscle mass didn’t go up — so it agrees with the claim.

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Effects of acute creatine monohydrate supplementation on leucine kinetics and mixed-muscle protein synthesis.

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DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2001.91.3.1041

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