How creatine plays an important role in Muscle building ?

 

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In this article we will talk about "How creatine plays an important role in Muscle building".
If you are a health conscious than I'm sure that you definitely hear about creatine. it is one of the most popular supplement in the market after protein. 

Creatine is not a steroid (commonest myth about creatine), it is found in human body which is produced by Kidney, Liver and Pancreas.
It is not important to everyone to take it until you want to improve your muscle strength and mass.

Various studies have shown that creatine can improve muscle strength, mass and exercise performance. creatine is one of the most tested supplement and has an outstanding safety profile.

 

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How does it work?

The primary role of creatine is to increase the phosphocreatine in muscle cells, this additional stores
can be used to produce more ATP molecule which gives you a more energy to do heavy lifting, high intensity exercise.

1. Creatine helps muscle cells produce more energy

It increase the phosphocreatine in muscle, which provide more ATP molecule to your muscle cells.

2. Creatine improve high intensity exercise

As we know it helps to produce more energy in the form of ATP molecule, which drastically improve high intensity exercise.

3. Creatine speeds muscles growth

Taking creatine 5 to 7 days has been show increase muscle mass because the increasement of the water content in muscles initially.

4. May fight with neurological disorder

Reduction of phosphocreatine in brain is the common factor in several neurological disease. creatine increase the amount of phsophocreatine which may reduce the risk of neurological disease.

Dosage

Many people start with a loading phase in which they have to take 20g of creatine/day for 5-7 days to maximize your stores and then after completing the loading, take 3-5g creatine/day to maintain high level.

If you don't want to go with loading phase then you have to only take 3-4g of creatine/day but it may take 3 to 4 weeks to maximize your stores.

When you should take creatine

Researches have shown that taking creatine close to when you exercise, is more effective.