Does Creatine Blunt Fat Loss? A Recent Study Supports Long-Standing Suspicions, But What Are the Implications?
Better lean than strong? Why not both? Anyone remember the allegedly not very popular post on the "anti-creatine" β-Guanidinopropionic Acid ( GPA ) and it's ability to increase AMPK , decreases blood glucose & insulin , induce weight loss without dieting, increase skeletal muscle oxidative capacity and delay the development of mammary cancer ( read up on the news)? I thought so... Even I had was just about to forget about it, when I stumbled upon a recently published Brazilian study which found that the "real" - not the anti-creatine - does in fact what you would expect from the "evil twin" of GPA: It blunts the exercise induced fat loss in highly trained amateur athletes (Manjarrez-Montes de Oca. 2013). "What!? Creatine makes me fat?" Now, before you start freaking out, let me say this: There are also studies which suggest that creatine supplementation does the exact opposite, i.e. that it can (combined with an intense e...