What benefits, if any, do endurance athletes get from creatine?

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Dr. Jelena Kunovac, MD · Answer

Is there a better time to talk about the use of creatine and endurance Atlas than just right after I finished my mornings, when practice on this lovely Sunday morning in Las Vegas. Well, for the record I'm a sprinter and creating does benefit the most athletes whose activities are focused on speed power and short intense, bursts of exercise in other words as printers like me, and I always train with creatine, in my water bottle is one of the supplements. Now, what does creating do? You know what is creating? It's an amino acid. It is Mostly muscles and the brain and we get it when we eat meat and seafood. In addition to that pancreas kidney and liver can synthesize creating. They can synthesize about one gram of creatine per day, which is much less than what most of the people most of the athletes take as a supplementation between 5 and 20 grams a day. Now, we're not going to be talking about those of creatine now. But what does creatine do? And what happens when we take creatine that enlarges the pool of the creatine in the cell and creating is used for research synthesis of ATP. At the nausea triphosphate and adenosine triphosphate is the source of energy for muscles that allows muscles to keep performing. So, that is what creating actually does and what could be a benefit of creatine to endurance athletes. Well, there are three benefits that has been shown number one. It has been shown that creatine can help with recovery but reducing muscle damage after intense, bouts of exercise which sometimes endurance athletes do as well. It can reduce my muscle damage. Number two, there was a study that showed Would that if athletes could perform in extreme heat, take creatine that heat tolerance increases and number three, which is very important. We all know the relevance of the glycogen storages at the time when we recover and soda plant, mission of those storages requires, the use of carbohydrates. Now, when creating was added to carbohydrates the amount or the rate of by which glycogen storages were replaced, was significantly increase. It is interesting to say, That if creatine was taken a loan that did not change, the Reformation of glycogen storages, as well as important to emphasize. That addition of creatine to carbohydrates is what made the difference in agriculture, glycogen storages. Hello there for endurance athletes. Please take creatine, there will be some benefits for you as well.

Emma Pallant-Browne · Answer

Yeah, so I think especially from my own experience creating definitely has a part to play in endurance athletes. I think it's first of all training the body to use it. So you're not going to then get gut issues that they're training after the day after and introducing, it kind of quite steadily. But yeah, as an endurance athlete, you still do top-end, super hard sessions that you often, they need to recover quite quickly from In to do an easier one the next day. And yeah, anything, that helps them promotes recovery, then it has its place in Endurance Sports and I really do think that creatine if used wisely definitely, definitely helps. But I'd say, you don't want to overuse it like, literally, for those super hard key sessions and just to help make that recovery of it quicker. I'm sorry about Dodger.

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"What benefits, if any, do endurance athletes get from creatine?"