Wondering if i bought fake Creatine

[Gym_]

So after doing a crap load of reading i decided i would get some Creatine.
What they were selling at the gym was hell dear so on advice i bought some off ebay
I did everything i supposed to do ( 1 week loading etc ) but after 3 weeks i cant See, Feel, or Tell that is done anything, As in recovery time and ever thing else ppl say it can do for you.. Just wounding if i might have bought a bag of crap with Creatine written on it..LOL

Cheers Gym_

[iliketurtles]

Hard to say...personally i'd stay away from ebay for supplements.

Is there a legit looking label at least? I just don't see why someone would give you fake stuff when the real stuff really isn't that expensive.

[slfmade]

^^^Agree. I don't why anyone would sell fake creatine. I take creatine but I can't say that I've ever "felt" it. Creatine is just a supplement, it's going going to turn you into a bodybuilder in 3 weeks. Go to the diet section and post up your diet. Changing your diet will make the greatest and quickest improvement over any supplement including AAS.

[dec11]

i'd highly doubt anyone is selling fake creatine..........

[Big hammer]

i'd highly doubt anyone is selling fake creatine..........

You never know. Christmas is coming up, and people are looking for ways to scam.
Ie: gather all the Sheetrock dust on a job site and sell it on eBay as creatine!

[jimmyinkedup]

Im starting to think creatine is the most over hyped supplement of all time (excluding anything marketed by primordial performance - they take hypa and bs to unprecedented levels).
The reason i believe this is not because it doesnt work but because people expect it to yield results as if it were miconized dbol.

[slfmade]

^^^Agree

[Gym_]

Thanks Guys .. next lot ill buy of some one different ... due to cycle it in another month so ill see then if i think it makes any difference at all ... if not then ill just drop it from my diet ..

[TJsurgRehab22]

Yea creatine is too cheap to be faking in my opinion, just go to bodybuilding.com or something like that and search around. Also, some people react differently to supplements so it may take longer for it to start working

[Gym_]

ya prob right.. thou it may be just a cheaply made crap, low quality .. ill buy a difrent brand when i run out.. see if that makes any difrence

[Armykid93]

ive found kre alkalyn works really well for me.

[Gym_]

OK maybe the creatine wasn't fake after all... i stopped taking it two days ago and after i smashed my chest tonight and my roto cup and tits are killing me more then usual.



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No, no, nurse! I said SLIP off his SPECTACLES!!

[dec11]

You never know. Christmas is coming up, and people are looking for ways to scam.
Ie: gather all the Sheetrock dust on a job site and sell it on eBay as creatine!

its cheap as chips mate and widely available to all, be like faking cornflakes lol

[Gym_]

its cheap as chips mate and widely available to all, be like faking cornflakes lol

Mate don't put it past the Chinese they would fake a tictak if they could make a box 2c cheaper


Gym_

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Fight organized crime, stamp out the IRS and ATO

[calisun]

I agree to the guy above regarding avoiding ebay supplements...especially creatine. The stuff is only like 7 bucks from a legit retailer..why risk it on ebay?

[flatland4life]

fake creatine Wow what a messed up world when even legal stuff is faked for more profit

[mirin_serratus]

people who eat enough red meat have sufficient creatine, also it kicks in very slowly

[ovidiu31]

i would never buy creatine off ebay, if you dont feel it just give it to someone and buy a new pack from a sup store and see if you get better results (they shouldnt be massive results or anything)

[FukGenetics]

fake creatine?? LMAO!!!!!!

[Ashop]

So after doing a crap load of reading i decided i would get some Creatine.
What they were selling at the gym was hell dear so on advice i bought some off ebay
I did everything i supposed to do ( 1 week loading etc ) but after 3 weeks i cant See, Feel, or Tell that is done anything, As in recovery time and ever thing else ppl say it can do for you.. Just wounding if i might have bought a bag of crap with Creatine written on it..LOL

Cheers Gym_

Creatine is so cheap I dont know why some one would sell a fake. There are some people who just dont respond to Creatine too.

[Gym_]

Yeah i don't think it was fake anymore because after a month when i stopped tacking it i got depressed as fuk and had no energy at all and didn't want to even get out of bed... could have been sides form coming of it,... i don't know.. i don't think it agrees with me though. don't think ill be taking ti again in a hurry

[terraj]

Loading does nothing, it's supplement industry scam to get more sold. I did see a study once which said the same.

[falco21]

To Load Or Not To Load,
That Is The Question...

One question that often comes up regarding Creatine is whether or not the loading phase is required. Originally the advice for getting optimal results was to load up on Creatine followed by a maintenance dose there after.

This advice was based on the fact that the human body already contains approximately 120 grams of Creatine (as Creatine and Creatine phosphate) stored in tissues and to increase total Creatine stores, one had to load for several days in order to increase those stores above those levels.

The idea also seemed to work well in practice with people noticing considerable increases in strength and weight during the loading phase. All was not perfect however as many people found the loading phase to be a problem, with gastrointestinal upset, diarrhea and other problems. At the very least, loading was inconvenient and potentially expensive.

The need for a loading phase was a long held belief, but is it really needed to derive the benefits of Creatine? The answer appears to be no as both research and real world experience have found the loading phase may not be needed after all. A 1996 study compared a loading phase vs. no loading phase 31 male subjects.

The subjects loaded for 6 days using 20 g/day and a maintenance dose 2 g/day for a further 30 days. As expected, tissue Creatine levels went up approximately 20% and the participants got stronger and gained lean mass. Nothing new there! And, not surprisingly, without a maintenance dose Creatine levels went back to normal after 30 days.
Then the group was given 3g of Creatine without a loading dose. The study found a similar - but more gradual - increase in muscle Creatine concentrations over a period of 28 days. The researchers concluded,

"A rapid way to Creatine load human skeletal muscle is to ingest 20 g of Creatine for 6 days.
This elevated tissue concentration can then be maintained by ingestion of 2 g/day thereafter. The ingestion of 3 g Creatine/day is in the long term likely to be as effective at raising tissue levels as this higher dose."

A more recent study done in 1999 found that 5g of Creatine per day without a loading phase in 16 athletes significantly increased measures of strength, power, and increased body mass without a change in body fat levels (whereas the placebo group showed no significant changes).

The researcher of this 1999 study concluded,

"These data also indicate that lower doses of Creatine monohydrate may be ingested (5 g/d), without a short-term, large-dose loading phase (20 g/d), for an extended period to achieve significant performance enhan***ent."
So, if you have suffered through the loading phase in the past thinking it was the only way to maximize the effects of your Creatine supplement, it appears you can rest assured you don't have to go through all that hassle. A 3-5gram per day dose over and extended period of time will probably do the same thing.