Creatine Supplement Reviews –
1
The
History of this highly effective muscle
building and fat loss bodybuilding
supplement
Creatine is currently
the most popular bodybuilding supplement and
millions of bodybuilders, athletes, both
professional and amateur, and teenagers use
creatine supplements for muscle
building and fat loss, to
increase strength, and for improving sports
performance.
History
of Creatine
Creatine
was first discovered in 1835 when a French
scientist noticed a compound in skeletal
muscle that he later named creatine from the
Greek word Kreas, meaning “flesh”. So
although creatine may be promoted by
supplement manufacturers as something new,
the scientific community has recognized it
as a normal constituent of muscle for nearly
two hundred years.
One of
the best pieces of information to confirm
that creatine levels are tied to muscular
activity comes from studies comparing wild
with captive animals. Wild animals contain
about 10-times more creatine in their
muscles than captive animals.
Around
the turn of the 20th century the
first serious studies examining the effects
of creatine were conducted. It was noticed
that not all the creatine administered to
test subjects could be recovered in the
urine. This suggested that the body,
particularly the skeletal muscles were
retaining much of the ingested creatine.
Despite being a hundred years old, these
studies have important implications for
modern bodybuilders and athletes as they
show that while muscles are the greatest
absorbers of creatine in the body, they are
also the richest sources of creatine.
Whenever we take a bite of steak – which is
after all skeletal muscle – a rich source of
creatine is made available to our muscles.
For those individuals who regularly eat meat
or chicken it is estimated that
approximately one gram of creatine is made
available for muscle building and
fat burning.
The most
common supplemental form of creatine is
creatine monohydrate; a white crystalline
powder. Creatine monohydrate is simply a
molecule of creatine accompanied by a
molecule of water. It is generally accepted
that the first study that clearly
demonstrated the effects of creatine in
humans was conducted by Dr. Eric Hultman of
the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. This
study found that by taking 20 grams of
creatine every day for four to five days,
boosted muscle creatine levels by
approximately 20%. As any exercise
physiologist will tell you, an increase in
muscle creatine content of this amount will
produce a definite
improvement in exercise performance,
especially during short bouts of explosive
exercise. The types of exercise that seem to
benefit the most from creatine
supplementation include sprinting events of
less than 10 seconds duration, bodybuilding,
and such sports as football, hockey, and
rugby.
Once the
results of this groundbreaking study became
known to supplement manufacturers, the
floodgates opened. New creatine products
were being released on an almost weekly
basis. The 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
Became known as the creatine games and it is
suggested that the success of the British
track team was allegedly partially due to
the use of creatine.
It’s
reached the point now that creatine is the
most popular athletic supplement for
muscle building and fat
burning.
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