If young, healthy guys take 20 grams of creatine every day while eating a super high-carb diet after intense exercise, they rebuild their muscle fuel 82% faster in the first day compared to just...

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Creatine ingestion augments dietary carbohydrate mediated muscle glycogen supercompensation during the initial 24 h of recovery following prolonged exhaustive exercise in humans

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2016 Aug

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Creatine ingestion augments dietary carbohydrate mediated muscle glycogen supercompensation during the initial 24 h of recovery following prolonged exhaustive exercise in humans

Score: 37

DOI: 10.1007/s00726-016-2252-x

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Creatine helps muscles refill their energy stores quickly after a tough workout, but this boost only lasts the first day — even if you keep taking creatine, it doesn’t keep speeding things up after that.

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Taking creatine for five days boosts creatine in muscles, but doesn’t change how much glycogen (energy) is used during intense cycling in healthy young guys — so more creatine alone doesn’t help save energy stores during endurance workouts if muscles weren’t already drained.

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