TJ Nethery Essays - Bodybuilding Supplements, Dietary Supplements

TJ Nethery 4/20/2017 Supplement Paper Creatine Creatine was found, when ingested can dramatically boost the Creatine content in the muscles in 1912 by two Harvard university researchers Otto Follin and Willey Glover Denis. Creatine is normally found in meat and fish. Creatine is also naturally made in the human body in the kidney and liver. Creatine is mainly stored in muscles. Creatine is a substance which is present inside in our body and is created from the amino acids, methionine etc. Most of the body Creatine is present in the skeletal muscle. The remaining percentage of Creatine exists free. The enzymes which are responsible for the Creatine synthesis are present inside the kidneys, liver and pancreas. The transportation of Creatine inside the muscles occurs through the blood stream. Creatine was coined by a French scientist Chevreul during his research work on the skeletal muscles. Creatine seems to be a quite new word but it is known by the scientist as a main component of the muscles for more than two centuries. In 1920 researchers identified the two forms of Creatine. They named them phosphorylated Creatine and free Creatine. Creatine enhances the body's capacity to perform high intensity work and assists greater muscle size and performance gains as a result. This strengthens muscular contraction of these fibers, and helps the athlete to pump out more reps, sprint at a faster rate, or engage more forcefully in whatever sport or type of exercise they take part in. Supplementing with Creatine allows the muscles to store more of this high-energy molecule to provide greater gains in strength and muscle. Creatine also helps enhance your recovery time. In recent years Creatine has been studied for its post-exercise muscle regeneration properties. Findings have been very promising. In 2004, Santos and colleagues studied the effects of Creatine supplementation on muscle cell damage in experienced endurance athletes running a 30 mile. Possible side effects of using Creatine are as follows: pounding heartbeats or fluttering in your chest, trouble breathing, swelling and rapid weight gain, dehydration symptoms such as thirst unable to urinate and heavy sweating, more common side effects include nausea and stomach pain, diarrhea, muscle cramps and weight gain. Creatine can be found in many to all drugstores, vitamin shops as well as your run of the mill Walmart's, but the biggest place and most frequent place that is found and sold is online with thousands of brands and millions of websites to purchase from. The four main types of people that will benefit from Creatine include: body builders and strength athletes, the aging population, sufferers from neurodegenerative disorders, and those with naturally lower levels of Creatine such as vegetarians.