Originally Posted by
LetsGo
I’ve used it with no negative effects whatsoever, but I’ve heard some guys here claim that it made them crash, which really surprised me.
I would personally recommed German Creatine since it’s made in Germany rather than China, and a German factory is unlikely to spike it with testosterone (which is something that Chinese supplement factories are notorious for.) In Germany they take manufacturing ridiculously seriously, far more than they do in the US, so I would always prefer a German-made supplement to one made in countries like the US or China, where there’s no meaningful government oversight on supplements. (Not no oversight, just no meaningful oversight, in my opinion.) Your mileage may vary.
There was one study showing that it led to a ~50% increase in DHT, but those results were never repeated in any other study. People have been citing that one study for many years, but personally I don’t believe it affects DHT in any significant way, otherwise we’d see creatine causing guys in their teens and early 20s to go bald much faster, and we’d see major sexual benefits to creatine, which we don’t see in real life.
As far as mental or mood benefits, I don’t think it affects my mood or thinking in any way.
Creatine increases my muscle size and strength a bit, and it will absolutely increase your water retention in your muscles. So you can expect to gain several pounds of water weight once your muscles are fully saturated with creatine. It just helps me lift a little more in the gym. It could indirectly boost testosterone by helping you build more muscle in the gym due to lifting harder, but I don’t feel like it has a huge effects either way. It’s one of those things that is worth trying and incorporating into your regimine if it doesn’t give you any negative sides, but it’s not going to be a game-changer.